Autor-Archive: escapethereview

Crack The Code: Apartment 9

Sheffield, Apr 2018

Since my last visit to this venue, they’ve changed not only their entrance point, but also the space in which the games are hosted. Sort of shuffling down the building, if you will. The usual faff of buzzer-entry escape rooms ensued, and we were hang… (more)

TimeTrap Escape Rooms: Rebellion – 1136

Reading, Mar 2018

Few escape games open with an explanation of one of the more obscure parts of English history, but Rebellion does and pulls it off smoothly. As the intro succinctly explains, you’re travelling back to the 12th century to retrieve the royal crown for … (more)

Escape Reading: The Vampire Slayers

Reading, Mar 2018

Horror rooms are a varied lot, and can be anything from puzzle-driven games with a few blood splatters and fake severed fingers to set the scene, through to full on terror experiences where solving anything is complicated by flickering lights and cha… (more)

Escape Reading: Kidnapped

Reading, Mar 2018

The first of the two horror themes we tried at Escape Reading’s central branch was Kidnapped, which avoids outright scares in favour of building a subtle creepy atmosphere. (For those who hate jump scares, there should be little to worry about here.)… (more)

Escape Reading: The Bank Robbery

Reading, Mar 2018

Bank Robbery is one of the two games at Escape Reading’s original branch, located on the west side of the city. I frequently book games without reading their descriptions very closely, and I’d assumed from the name we’d be robbing a bank. Instead, th… (more)

VAP Games: Escape The Casino

Room-in-a-box, Mar 2018

Escape The Casino describes itself as a ‚digitop‘ game, and represents another variation on the play at home format. Several other games use a support app as part of the game, to track time and verify answers, but Casino takes it one step further by … (more)

Lockhouse Escape Games: Secret Agent

Cambridge, Mar 2018

The latest game from Lockhouse is a Cold War spy theme, where you are trapped in a safe house and need to not only escape but also identify a traitor and find a set of blueprints.

The safe house is a basement room that suits the 1970s setting but wo… (more)

Cryptx: The Jewellery Heist

Cambridgeshire, Mar 2018

Located half an hour’s drive outside Cambridge city centre, Cryptx isn’t the easiest location to get to but from their booking calendar seem to manage to attract a steady stream of teams nonetheless. They emphasise that they’re an enthusiast-run oper… (more)

Escape Team: Missions 1-5

Room-in-a-box, Feb 2018

There are a few other games available on a print and play basis, but Escape Team take that approach to perhaps its purest form. Where other printable games are best printed on card in colour, these are intended for printing in black and white on norm… (more)

Escape The Crate: Episode 6: Extinction

Room-in-a-box, Feb 2018

Escape The Crate has now been running for a year, and it is to the credit of the designers that they’ve never gotten lazy and settled into a predictable rut. While the format remains constant and some puzzle types make recurring appearances, they kee… (more)