I haven’t seen many Halloween rooms popping up so far for this year, though pirates seems to be in vogue right now. Maybe it’s just the calm before the storm of Xmas popups that’ll begin in earnest next month.

Greater London

🔒 The ambitious new branch of Enigma Quests opens this week in Holborn with Escape Room Arcade, a challenge arcade style experience. That should be followed by three escape rooms towards the end of the month.

🔒 The Wallington branch of Escape From The Room opened new room The Lost Caves of Moon Bay.

Also new, from last month’s update:
🎃 Room Lockdown Hornchurch: Trick Or Treat

South East England

🔒 New at CTRL ALT ESC is Escaping Neverland, a Peter Pan theme that intriguingly appears to have a T-Rex silhouette in the artwork. Like all their games, this has an extended 90 min play time.

🔒 The Faversham branch of Escape Kent also has a new room called The Bomb, a name which pretty much speaks for itself.

🔒 The Panic Room’s shiny new location in Dartford has already announced their second room: A Great Escape will be open from the 21st.

🔒 Didcot Escape Rooms have updated their game from Carnival Quest to Detention.

🔒 The Dark Arts Bar a.k.a. Elusion Rooms in Southampton have just launched their second puzzle box game; this one is called Monster Hunter.

🔒 The Butlin’s in Bognor Regis will offer four escape rooms from next week, amongst their other activities. The rooms are 221B Baker Street, Area 51, Witchcraft & Wizardry, and Escape the Seven Seas – and yes, appear to be from the Escape chain.

Also new, from last month’s update:
🔒 Houdini’s Escape Room Experience Chichester: Creepy Carnival, Escape From Alcatraz, Room 13
🔒 Random-Rooms (Newport): The Mine
🔒 SCRAMM Live Escape Rooms (Banbury): Twisted Reflections
🔒 The Lift (Brighton): Comic Chaos

Last call for:
❗️ Pressure Point Escape Rooms (Ashford): The Mayflower Dagger (closing 3rd Nov)

South West England

🔒 Captain Riddle’s Forgotten Fortune is one of Clue HQ’s finest rooms, and has always been available only in Birmingham; but the Somerton branch now offers it too.

🔒 Houdini’s Escape Room Experience in Gloucester opened Creepy Carnival in addition to the others at the branch.

Also new, from last month’s update:
🔒 Locked In – Escape Rooms Cornwall (Camborne): Puzzle Escape Room 2.0
🔒 Prodigy Escapes (Exeter): The Wizards of Wyvern
🔒 Red House Mysteries Exeter: The Queen of Diamonds Heist

Wales

🔒 After an extended closure/relocation, Mansion of Mystery is back open later this week, having moved from Pembrokeshire to Carmarthenshire, offering their game The Time Machine.

🔒 Beyond Breakout may have closed their doors for on-site games, but from this weekend they’ll offer new mobile game Smuggler’s Cove, which is based on a delightful combination of cats and pirates.

🔒 Caerphilly Escape Rooms (sister site of Escape Blackwood) opened their second room The Witch in the Woods, a Hansel & Gretel style story.

🔒 In Cardiff, Puzzled Escape Rooms now offer AI Apocalypse, a tabletop suitcase-style game which you can play seated; „drinks and snacks will also be available“.

🔒 And in Swansea, Brewster’s Millions is the new room at Valley Escape, replacing Time Traveller.

Also new, from last month’s update:
🔒 Exitus (Cardiff): The Great Escape
🔒 PanIQ Rooms Wales (Porthmadog): Escape To Victory

West Midlands

🔒 The Coventry branch of Escape Live has just opened Horrible Histories Mystery Museum, previously only available in Liverpool.

🔒 Zombie survival theme Shelter Z opens soon at Exciting Game Birmingham.

Also new, from last month’s update:
🔒 Escape Hunt Worcester: Aladdin & The Magic Vault, Curse of the Pharaoh, Dracula, Eye of the Sun God, Journey to Atlantis

East Midlands

🔒 Horton’s Emporium seems to have acquired and rebranded Logiclock in Nottingham, while keeping the current three rooms. They’re also adding a crate-style game called The Wizard’s Chest available from mid-October, and at their Daventry branch (Daventry Miniature Race Cars) new room The Castle of Memories opens tomorrow.

Also new, from last month’s update:
🔒 Break Escape Nottingham: Orbital

Last call for:
❗️ Rushden Escape Rooms: Guardian of the Gallery (closing end Oct)

East of England

🔒 Cluetopia Ipswich launched Raiders of the Stormy Sea, a pirate romp in search of treasure.

🎄 Cluetopia Harwich will open this year’s Christmas game Elf Academy in mid-October.

🔒 The new game at Escape Basildon is also pirate-themed: The Brig has you trying to steal Davy Jones‘ heart, and not in a romantic sense.

Also new, from last month’s update:
🔒 Locked Escapes Luton: The Real Brummie Boys
🔒 Principal Escape Rooms (Ely): War of the Roses
🔒 The Escape House (St Neots): Spellbound

Last call for:
❗️ Cluetopia Walton: The Grand Portobello Hotel Heist (closing 20th Oct)
❗️ Clued Up’s outdoor games (off sale after end Oct)

North West England

From last month’s update:
🔒 Breakout Chester: Captured, The Vault

Yorkshire & the Humber

🔒 Escapable at Wakefield have a new room Prank Heist, set at school with the goal of stealing a certain legendary whoopee cushion.

Also new, from last month’s update:
🔒 A Place To Escape: The Pirates of Redcar, The Cursed Hollywood Dressing Room, Prison Break
🔒 Escape Withernsea: A Crackin‘ Time

Last call for:
❗️ Locked In Games Leeds: The Hidden Book (closing 24th Oct)

North East England

🔒 New at Whitley Bay’s Pirate Escape is Nightmare Manor; in a departure from their usual pirate themes, this one’s a horror room set in a creepy mansion.

🔒 The Sunderland branch of Clue HQ seems to now be independent from the rest of the chain, as Laser Quest Sunderland.

Scotland

🔒 Aviemore Escape Rooms replaced The Bothy’s Treasure with a revamp/sequel, Return To The Bothy.

🔒 Ayrshire Mobile Escape Rooms now have a magic-themed fifth game in their range of mobile escape rooms, called World of Wizards.

Northern Ireland

From last month’s update:
🔒 Timescape (Belfast): Casino Heist: The Big Gamble