Autor-Archive: escapethereview

How to use UV well

Any list of escape room tropes will inevitably include use of UV lighting, and no wonder – the ability to hide invisible messages that players can only discover when they find the correct tool is an irresistible mechanism for escape room designers. As a result, UV messages have been used since the earliest escape rooms… Weiterlesen »

Roomsmiths: The Naked Eye

Plymouth, Jun 2019

Rated between 4 and 4.5 out of 5
Having narrowly missed the chance to visit Roomsmiths on my last visit to Devon two years earlier, and having heard good things about it in the meantime, I made a point of including it on our schedule this time round. Located in the slightly rundown … (more)

Lucardo: The Prison

Manchester, Jun 2019

Rated 4.5 out of 5
Prison is one of the timeless escape room themes. It’s been done so many times in many different styles that it’s very difficult to build a prison game that feels original, doubly so because there’s a very limited range of items you can plausibly put… (more)

Escape Tales: The Awakening

Room-in-a-box, Jun 2019

Rated 4 out of 5
I’ve been saying for a while that the convention of a 60 minute time limit is an unnecessary constriction on play-at-home games, and that games would do better to aim for a longer play time and a more substantial experience. Escape Tales appear to ha… (more)