Autor-Archive: escapethereview

Deckscape: The Curse of the Sphinx

Room-in-a-box, Jan 2022

Deckscape’s compact and straightforward format has a lot going for it – you’re guided straight into the game without having to first work out how to play, and the large cards with their bright illustrations have good visual appeal. But while I genera… (more)

Champaign-Urbana Adventures in Time and Space: Floor 13

Online, Jan 2022

If I copy-pasted in my review for The Lost Temple, CU Adventures’ other digital game, it would need only a little adjusting to be equally suitable for Floor 13 – which, given how much I liked that one, is very much a good thing.

Floor 13 uses the sa… (more)

Salisbury Escape Rooms: Death at the Lab

Salisbury, Jan 2022

Salisbury Escape Rooms seems to rarely get mentioned in enthusiast discussions, and it’s true that their games aren’t likely to make experienced players’ top ten lists; but I’ve learned to expect reliably creative, enjoyable games from them, and so f… (more)

Hounds Escape: Southern Dis-comfort

Crawley, Jan 2022

The US Deep South is not a common setting for an escape room, but if the clever pun of Hounds Escape’s second game hadn’t made the theme clear, the appearance of our host certainly would have; gleefully over the top, he took the stereotype of a south… (more)

Hounds Escape: Questionable Ethics

Crawley, Jan 2022

You can’t always judge a company by its lobby area, but it’s always an encouraging start to walk into a venue that looks atmospheric, stylish and welcoming. Hounds Escape not only did well on that initial impression, but then built on it with their p… (more)

Crime Runners: Beneath Vienna

Online, Dec 2021

In the early days of the pandemic, Crime Runners were one of the first companies to release a fully digital escape game; and while there are now plenty of games that share its point-n-click style of gameplay, at that time it was quite unusual. Beneat… (more)

Clue Cracker: Temple Quest

Tunbridge Wells, Nov 2021

On a day of playing several very strong games, I had particular hopes for Temple Quest, the newest (at time of writing) game from Clue Cracker, having noticed the way it’s quietly climbed into the top bracket of the UK rankings; and was delighted to … (more)

TimeQuest: Reset

Tonbridge, Nov 2021

I’d been wanting to return to TimeQuest since my first visit four years earlier, though they’re not the easiest to get to without a car. In the meantime they’ve expanded from three games to five, and we played their newest two: their Christmas game a… (more)

Clue Cracker: Diamond Dogs

Tunbridge Wells, Nov 2021

There are many things to love about Clue Cracker’s heist game Diamond Dogs, but I can’t deny that what really made it for me was the opening sequence. Immersive, playful and gloriously silly, it’s a fantastic start to an excellent game.

There are te… (more)

DarkMaster: Into The Reliquary

Crowborough, Nov 2021

Few companies make such a stir so soon after opening as DarkMaster. It wasn’t long after they launched their first two games that word spread that they had something special; and of the two, it was Reliquary that particularly caused the buzz.

This i… (more)