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The Riddle Within: Flight 338

London, Feb 2020

The Riddle Within announced their debut game with plenty of fanfare: an escape room on an actual plane. Space in London is hard to come by, but their location in North Greenwich has not only a yard big enough for an airplane but an entire ex-n… (more)

Exit: The Haunted Roller Coaster

Room-in-a-box, Jan 2020

Like its sister game House of Riddles, this comes with a low difficulty rating and a linear, one-puzzle-at-a-time structure. Also like House of Riddles, it mixes pages of story into the clue booklet. Perhaps Exit was concerned that they weren’t provi… (more)

Exit: The House of Riddles

Room-in-a-box, Jan 2020

I wouldn’t like to suggest that Exit are scraping the barrel for their theme ideas, but the premise for House of Riddles is simply that you’re in a house… full of puzzles… kinda like one of those ‘escape room’ things. Although to be fair, there’s… (more)

LetsXcape: Sacred

Newark, Nov 2019

LetsXcape are certainly fortunate in their location; not only is Kelham Hall a huge and lovely Victorian mansion, but it boasts some interesting history which makes for good inspiration for the company’s escape rooms. Sacred is inspired by the Hall’s… (more)

LetsXcape: The Rig

Newark, Nov 2019

After so many escape rooms hidden away in dubious industrial estates, it’s a bit of a shock to reach LetsXcape, driving through acres of landscaped gardens up to the very grand country house that is Kelham Hall. This building has recently become a ho… (more)

Escape Lincoln: The Magic Emporium

Lincoln, Nov 2019

As the number of venues and games in the now-huge Escape franchise increases, they now sometimes have more than one game design using a similar theme, so for clarification The Magic Emporium is an entirely different game to the Witchcraft and Wizardr… (more)

Escape Room Nederland: The Dome

Bunschoten, Jan 2020

You may have heard of The Dome. In fact, I’m tempted to write two versions of this review: one for those who’ve never heard it mentioned, and another for everyone who knows of it as the game that came top of the 2019 TERPECA awards, the current reign… (more)

DarkPark Zoetermeer: The End

Zoetermeer, Jan 2020

I do wonder about the state of mind of the person who designed a game as wickedly twisted as The End. But whatever is wrong with their head, it’s wrong in a very, very good way, because The End is a work of genius that I absolutely loved.

I’m not en… (more)

Next Level Escaperoom: Catch Me If You Can

Eindhoven, Jan 2020

Catch Me If You Can is in fact a sequel to the venue’s original game, which we hadn’t played (and weren’t able to squeeze into our schedule); but all that we really needed to know of the backstory was that there was a bad guy named Jeffrey, and it wa… (more)

Escape Room Katwijk: Bella Ciao

Katwijk, Jan 2020

I haven’t seen a single episode of La Casa De Papel, the heist drama which is apparently Netflix’s most successful series in a language other than English, and which Bella Ciao is based on. As a result, there were plenty of references in this game th… (more)