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The Box: The Mine Box

Athens, Apr 2023

Rated between 4 and 4.5 out of 5
At 80 minutes the Mine Box would count as a super-sized game in the U.K., and it’s the longest at the venue, but still on the shorter side by Athens standards. The company’s name should not deceive you into expecting a crate-style portable game: they… (more)

Paradox Project: The Music Academy

Athens, Apr 2023

Rated 5 out of 5
Few companies have such a reputation as Paradox Project; and for me personally, their game The Bookstore is my all time favourite escape room. So The Music Academy had quite a lot to live up to. And while it hasn’t displaced its predecessor from my t… (more)

Escapepolis: Gustav Eiffel

Athens, Apr 2023

Rated between 3.5 and 4 out of 5
Our second game at Escapepolis’s Galatsi branch had us going for a meeting with our childhood friend, the famous builder of the Eiffel Tower. Naturally, the meeting took an unexpected turn and left us trying to avoid being arrested for murder. This o… (more)

New UK escape rooms August 2023

No summer lull this year! There are plenty of new rooms to get excited about, including several from some heavy hitters – here’s the full list. Greater London 🔒 Escape The Power Cut is a new game at Control Room B, a cocktail bar in the converted Battersea Power Station. It’s running on Saturdays only,… Weiterlesen »

Diorama Games: The Medusa Report

Room-in-a-box, May 2023

Rated 4.5 out of 5
This is part two of Diorama’s investigation trilogy, picking up where The Vandermist Dossier left off, on the trail of the missing Abigail Vandermist. You can play it as a stand-alone game – though that would be a curious choice, since it would be a … (more)

Escapepolis: Hellevator

Athens, Apr 2023

Rated between 3.5 and 4 out of 5
From the lobby the burnished metal door to this game gleams at you invitingly, with a 1920s art deco elegance. The story is that there’s an upcoming exhibition on the Egyptian god Seth, and the head curator has been found dead; you just need to take … (more)

Safarka: Expedition

Lisbon, Feb 2023

Rated 3.5 out of 5
When I visited Lisbon five years earlier, Safarka provided the clear stand-out room of the trip: at the time a new company with a single game, they were innovative in play style and puzzles. So returning to try their latest was a priority.
Expeditio… (more)

Escape2Win: Dream

Lisbon, Feb 2023

Rated between 3.5 and 4 out of 5
Located in Algés out beyond the tourist hotspot of Belem, itself some way from Lisbon centre, Escape2Win is unlikely to be a venue you stumble across accidentally. However, they were one of the earliest pioneers of the remote avatar game format at th… (more)