Autor-Archive: escapethereview

Escape Room Skopje: The Cult

Skopje, Mar 2020

Escape Room Skopje’s website is artistic and clever and fairly impenetrable, at least if you don’t read Macedonian, so I recommend using their Facebook page to book. Their game The Cult appears to have been Skopje’s first escape room; they also have … (more)

The Game: The Lost City

Skopje, Mar 2020

The Game had two escape rooms available, of which only one is playable by a team of two – although I’d probably have picked Lost City anyway. because the promo pictures looked pretty. Those pictures were not misleading – it has some lovely jungle dec… (more)

RAZ Escape Room

Pristina, Mar 2020

At time of writing, RAZ Escape Room is the only escape room in Kosovo. It also has an intimidatingly back to basics website – the home page greets you with a booking form, there’s no information on the game’s theme, and you only get the full street a… (more)

Deckscape: Heist In Venice

Room-in-a-box, Dec 2018

Heist In Venice follows the normal Deckscape format with a couple of twists. Your mission is to steal a €1 billion Euro poker chip from a casino, and in the tradition of heist movies, you have a team of specialists: here provided by a set of six char… (more)

Deckscape: Behind The Curtain

Room-in-a-box, Mar 2020

Fifth in the Deckscape series (but the fourth one I’ve tried), Behind The Curtain has a conjuring theme and a backstory that starts with you attending a magician’s show. This is the usual Deckscape format, where you proceed through a deck of somewhat… (more)

Deadlocked Escape Rooms: The Insiders

Online, Apr 2020

Half the world is sheltering indoors from a pandemic sweeping the globe – not the plot of an escape game but the sad reality we find ourselves in. With physical escape rooms off limits, many companies are creating games which can be played over the i… (more)

Escape Reading: Ram Raid

Reading, Feb 2020

Many venues invest greater amounts of money and tech in each new game they create. I think that’s true of Escape Reading too, but they’ve also shown something rarer and more important: an ever-improving ability to make their games engaging, logical a… (more)

TimeTrap Escape Rooms: Station X

Reading, Feb 2020

Time Trap’s wartime game is based around Bletchley counter-espionage. Set in a railway station, it gives you the job of identifying which of seven suspects is a spy. You have an additional bonus mission – apparently the spy has hidden several cylinde… (more)

TimeTrap Escape Rooms: Pudding Lane

Reading, Feb 2020

Those who are less familiar with London history might assume Pudding Lane is confectionary themed – but of course this game is actually named after the place where the Great Fire of London began in 1666. Your team has been sent back in time, not to p… (more)

Knockout Escape Rooms: Curious Cabin

Reading, Jan 2020

Cabins in escape rooms have a tendency to turn grizzly – the ominous cabin in the woods trope. This one is an exception. It turns out to be a fairly normal miner’s cabin (normal other than being filled with puzzles, I guess); unfortunately, just at t… (more)