Autor-Archive: escapethereview

Exit: Huxley

Berlin, Nov 2017

Rated 4 out of 5
Huxley is only the second virtual reality escape game I’ve played, and so it remains a challenge to write a fair review. The aim is to assess the game, but with such a new format it’s far from straightforward to tease out what’s impressive about the … (more)

Final Escape: Prison Break

Berlin, Nov 2017

Rated between 4 and 4.5 out of 5
There is a limit to how many ways one can plausibly break out of prison. More than pretty much any of the other common escape game scenarios, it’s constrained in the types of object and furniture that can plausibly be used for puzzles without looking… (more)

Final Escape: Robot Paranoia

Berlin, Nov 2017

Rated between 3.5 and 4 out of 5
Robot Paranoia is a sci-fi game set in a future dystopia where humans have mostly been eliminated by robots, where you have an hour to get out of the robot-controlled area before you’re caught.
The decor is more Bladerunner than Star Trek, a crumbli… (more)

Claustrophobia: Pirate Hut

Berlin, Nov 2017

Rated between 3.5 and 4.5 out of 5
Caught in a storm on an island in the Caribbean, you seek shelter in an old hut… only to find that it’s haunted by the spirit of an old pirate, who will now keep you trapped forever unless you can find a way to escape. That’s the setup for the thir… (more)

Claustrophobia: Museum of Contemporary Art

Berlin, Nov 2017

Rated between 3 and 4 out of 5
Museum of Contemporary Art is a straightforward heist game, but one that uses its museum setting to build a series of puzzles around modern art pieces, most of which are lightly veiled versions of actual famous pieces. Some of the clues left for you … (more)

Time 2 Escape: You’re Next

Strood, Dec 2017

Rated between 3.5 and 4 out of 5
I was frankly a little apprehensive about playing You’re Next; it was clearly a horror theme, and with no website other than a Facebook page and a location in the Medway suburbs Time 2 Escape looked like a fairly low overhead operation. While there’s… (more)

The Panic Room: North Pole Panic

Gravesend, Dec 2017

Rated 3.5 out of 5
It’s December, and along with other signs of the season such as tinsel, fake snow and endless Wham replays, quite a number of escape room companies are offering Xmas-themed games. The Panic Room’s take on this gives you the task of helping Santa’s el… (more)

Exit: The Forbidden Castle

Room-in-a-box, Nov 2017

Rated 4 out of 5
Last of the Exit games until they finish translating the next four in the series, Forbidden Castle is marked as a harder game (4/5 difficulty, where Polar Station and Forgotten Island are marked as 3/5) and is my favourite so far. It follows the usua… (more)