New UK escape rooms March 2025
A sprinkling of treats in the run up to Easter – it’s the list of new UK escape rooms. Got anything booked for that long weekend yet?
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Escape Games Fukuoka: Hangover
Fukuoka, Oct 2024
Hangover was the game I initially tried to book at this venue, despite the three person minimum, but the owner told me in fairly clear terms that it could not reasonably be completely by a team of two within the time limit. We then proceeded to beat … (more)
Escape Games Fukuoka: Wherehouse
Fukuoka, Oct 2024
West Japan does not offer a wide selection of escape experiences available to English-speaking visitors; in the entire island of Kyushu the only one I could find was Escape Games Fukuoka. With such a lack of competition I arrived with low expectation… (more)
Game of Minds: Da Vinci
Busan, Oct 2024
There are a quite a few escape companies in downtown Busan, but finding a game that doesn’t need any Korean language knowledge seemed more tricky; Game of Minds was one of the few options that had clear English support. Of their rooms, we excluded th… (more)
The Puzzle Box: Der magische Rätseltisch
Munich, Feb 2025
All three of the Puzzle Box games we tried were distinctive and impressive, but for me there was a clear standout, and it was this one. For a start it’s a beautiful object. The others were appealing and well-themed, but this looks like a hand-crafted… (more)
The Puzzle Box: Der Hutmacher
Munich, Feb 2025
The second Puzzle Box we tried was Wonderland themed, and unlike the first was intended to be tackled by a small group. The premise is that you’re helping the Mad Hatter, and delightfully the box is presented in the form of an exceptionally large hat… (more)
The Puzzle Box: Der Biosphären – Decoder
Munich, Feb 2025
Visiting Munich, we had the chance to sample some of the games available from Puzzle Box, a.k.a. escape room legend (and friend) Heiner. These games are what’s sometimes called ‘crate’ games, available for hire to play in a location of your choosing,… (more)
Seoul Escape Room: The Lost City of Amazon
Seoul, Sep 2024
My experience of this game was that it was simultaneously spectacular, and spectacularly bad. It combines very cool set design on a pretty large scale, with puzzles that varied between tedious and flawed.
Like the other Seoul room we played, hints w… (more)
Midgaard Event: Downfall
Copenhagen, Feb 2025
Because of a certain movie, I kept expecting Downfall to be a WWII theme, but it’s actually set four decades later at the end of the Cold War: the general in control of a Soviet republic has a plan to start a nuclear war, and you are the spies tasked… (more)
New UK escape rooms February 2025
Winter is ending, and new escape rooms are popping up like snowdrops pushing up through the cold earth (except probably with a lot more hard work from the designers, these things don’t grow themselves you know). Here’s the list of new UK games for February: Greater London 🔒 I’m pretty sure Room Lockdown open as… Weiterlesen »