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Cinescape: Dr Kiefern’s Basement

Online, May 2024

After a gap of more than two years, I found myself playing an avatar game again. While the pandemic lockdowns are thankfully a thing of the past, extreme flooding in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul left some of the local venues closed down i… (more)

Lovushka Kvest: National Treasure

Tashkent, May 2024

As far as I could ascertain, there are no escape rooms in Tashkent that can be played in English – the primary language used in the game is Russian. Lovushka Kvest was the only company that I got a reply from, and they made it clear that some materia… (more)

Tuzak: Escape From Heist

Istanbul, May 2024

Tuzak, which is Turkish for Trap, is located in the Asian half of Istanbul, and currently run just this one game, though I believe in the past they’re operated more. Escape from Heist is based on the TV series Money Heist (La Casa del Papel), though … (more)

New UK escape rooms September 2024

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.

Myst Entertainment: The Secret of Kryptos

Sofia, May 2024

We’d missed Kryptos on our first visit to Sofia six years earlier, and almost missed it this time too, but managed to find time for a trip to it before leaving, and were thoroughly glad we’d done so. On booking we had to choose between ‘normal’ and ‘… (more)

MDB Escape Room: Road to Freedom

Sofia, Apr 2024

I really want to like Road to Freedom. It has so much going for it, starting with the original setting in which you are Bulgarian partisans in 1876, striving for national independence from the Ottoman Empire. This room looks impressive and immersive … (more)

MDB Escape Room: El Patron

Sofia, Apr 2024

A Bulgarian room with a Spanish name, El Patrón (think ‘The Godfather’) is based around 80s drug lord Pablo Escobar. We were DEA agents, and apparently we were trying to find a ledger full of evidence, though we may have lost track of that during the… (more)

Enigmania: Voodoo

Sofia, Apr 2024

It was only when en route to Enigmania that we discovered the game’s unusual requirement: that we each bring a small personal item. This needed some quick improvisation, though fortunately they weren’t too picky about the items we provided – there’s … (more)

Bioxcape

Sofia, Apr 2024

I’ve played several escape games built within museums, and none were like this. For one, BioXcape is not actually in the body of the museum; you enter via a side entrance, and descend into a genuine military bunker. And, thanks to the freedom of havi… (more)

Funky Monkeys: Rebellion

Sofia, Apr 2024

Funky Monkey’s first game Rebellion was in fact designed by Codex in Bucharest – which is a point in its favour, based on the visit I made to that company some years back. In it you’re infiltrating a secret society so as to unmask the members of the… (more)