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Compendium Escape Rooms: Bad Elf and the Key to the Sleigh

Bury, Mar 2024

While some Christmas games are quickly put together and evidently intended for only a short run, Compendium’s creation is a more lushly decorated affair, and still going strong well out of season. The plot involves finding the key to Santa’s sleigh, … (more)

Compendium Escape Rooms: Zombieland 2: The Perks of Karen

Bury, Mar 2024

There are any number of zombie themed rooms out there, and unless you make a point of avoiding them I imagine you’ve played several; but Karen is a much more original creature. This is zombie comedy, played for laughs but with a solid and sustained k… (more)

The Puzzle Room Cannock: The Tunnel 2

Cannock, Mar 2024

We’d booked two games at The Puzzle Room Cannock, so continued on from Emergency Landing to Tunnel. This one is designed in a split team communicative style where half the team is in the light section and half is in the dark section, and must work to… (more)

The Puzzle Room Cannock: Emergency Landing

Cannock, Mar 2024

The Puzzle Room Cannock is a company that changes its lineup of escape rooms quite frequently, but rarely gets reviewed on this site. So we were curious to sample their offerings, and started with Emergency Landing, in which you’re on board an automa… (more)

Xscape Now: Book of Magic

Telford, Mar 2024

I only realised after I’d booked it, but I’d played this room before – back in 2016, when it was The Book of Secrets at Clue Adventures in London. At the time I found it very impressive, and it was one of my standard recommendations for London rooms,… (more)

Xscape Now: Runaway Train

Telford, Mar 2024

XscapeNow’s train game is a Wild West theme, and of course the train you’re on is heading towards a collision that only you can prevent.

This is a room that looks good from the outset and maintains that impression throughout. The train setting gives… (more)

Xscape Now: Step Into Wonderland

Telford, Mar 2024

I planned to sit this one out, when booking the schedule for a weekend of escape rooms, because I played it previously when it was Imaginarium at Time Trap in Reading. However, swayed by fond memories of playing it the first time round, I decided on … (more)

Xscape Now: Oz

Telford, Mar 2024

The Wizard of Oz seems like a setting very well suited for an escape room theme, but for some reason is far less common than, say, Alice In Wonderland. Though perhaps that’s changing, with three Oz games now available around the UK.

From an entertai… (more)

Xscape Now: Sweeney Todd

Telford, Mar 2024

We binged our way through five of XscapeNow’s rooms, and only skipped the sixth because they close early on Sundays; and Sweeney Todd was the first one we played.

As a type of serial killer game, Sweeney is at most gleefully but inoffensively gory. … (more)

New UK escape rooms May 2024

What do airports, paddle boarding, and The Canterbury Tales have in common? Answer: This month’s roundup of escape room news features all three.