Autor-Archive: escapethereview

Escaped: Zygote

Athens, May 2019

When researching games for our weekend in Athens, several people mentioned Escaped in general and Zygote in particular, as an impressive and challenging game. Athens has plenty of long games, and at 100 minutes Zygote is substantial even by local sta… (more)

Escaped: 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

Athens, May 2019

I’d noticed Escaped’s 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea being mentioned as a highly recommended game ever since I started keeping track of which European games players enthused about, so was pleased to get the chance to finally try it. Escaped are prolifi… (more)

Lucardo Rawtenstall: Corruption

Rawtenstall, May 2019

I’ve played plenty of escape rooms where I’d been falsely accused, and had to clear my name. Corruption takes a far more original approach by turning that premise on its head: you are guilty, and you’re urgently trying to sanitise all the incr… (more)

Lucardo Rawtenstall: University of Magic: Dragon’s Heart

Rawtenstall, May 2019

Magic School has proved wildly popular as an escape room theme, and Lucardo have one such game in each of their two branches. Instead of taking the easy route of duplicating a single game, these are two completely distinct games. (I guess it would ma… (more)

No Exit: The Tomb of the Pharaoh

Bolton, Apr 2019

Squeezing in a quick extra escape room in Bolton my choices were limited. No Exit purchase their game designs, and I’d played three of their four games at other venues, so Tomb of the Pharaoh was the only option. The friendly gamemaster gave us their… (more)

Cryptogram Puzzle Post

Room-in-a-box, Apr 2019

Cryptogram Puzzle Post is a subscription puzzle product, definitely not marketed as a home escape game, but filling much the same niche as subscription-based home escape games. In its own words it is a „monthly illustrated storytelling experiment ins… (more)

Tulleys Escape: Nethercott Manor

Crawley, Apr 2019

Nethercott Manor, the third game from Tulleys Escape Rooms, has sat at the top of my must-play game list ever since it opened, while garnering one rave review after another; it’s currently the highest ranked game on this site by player reviews. And i… (more)

Escape Nation: The Citadel

Stafford, Apr 2019

A hat tip here to the review blog Brit of an Escape Habit, since without their recommendation I probably wouldn’t have decided to make a stop at Stafford on my journey north, and in the event I very much l… (more)

Escape Quest: Henry Fortune’s House of Illusion

Macclesfield, Apr 2019

I don’t get many chances to visit the north west, and when I finally got an opportunity to do so a return visit to Escape Quest was top of the agenda. As with their Curious Encounters game, this meant playing with a team of two despite the official m… (more)

Escape Quest: Curious Encounters

Macclesfield, Apr 2019

Curious Encounters has been running at Escape Quest for several years now, but with a significant revamp in 2017. I never played the original version, so can’t comment on whether the changes amount to an entirely new game; if in doubt check with the … (more)