Autor-Archive: escapethereview

Lock and Code: The Last Victim

Weston-super-mare, Aug 2017

Lock and Code is currently Weston-super-mare’s only escape game venue, and it’s an enthusiast-run operation split across two locations. Their original location with their first two games is a little way out of town, and their third game is in a separ… (more)

Lockhouse Escape Games: Armageddon

Cambridge, Aug 2017

For some reason both the escape game venues currently open in central Cambridge use room designs from Hungarian company TRAP. I played most of the TRAP games in Budapest some years ago, but Armageddon is one of the designs that didn’t exist at that t… (more)

Escape Room In A Box: The Werewolf Experiment

Room-in-a-box, Sep 2017

Back in early 2016, there was a Kickstarter campaign for a boxed version of an escape room. At the time it was an entirely novel concept and excited backers poured in close to seven times the funding goal. Crowdfunded products have a tendency to slid… (more)

Unlock!: Fifth Avenue

Room-in-a-box, Aug 2017

The initial release of Unlock! came packaged with a 10 min intro game, but also provided a 30 min free print and play game, The Elite. Fifth Avenue is a second free print and play game of the same length as The Elite. There appear to be two more prin… (more)

Lock Paper Scissors: Escape Game Z

Room-in-a-box, Aug 2017

Lock Paper Scissors do ‚escape game kits‘, primarily intended so that you can host an escape game for friends or family, with materials provided on a print and play basis. They currently have four available aimed at different ages, with Escape Room Z… (more)

Do Stuff Escape Games: Pie & Mash Shop

London, Aug 2017

There are common escape game themes and uncommon ones, but I’d confidently predict that Do Stuff are the only company in the world with a game themed around a pie & mash shop. There is more to the plot than just the cheap diner theme though: the owne… (more)

Co-decode: Professor Dunstan and the Search for the Ancient Statuette

Swindon, Aug 2017

Professor Dunstan and the ~~Unfeasibly Long Room Name~~ Search for the Ancient Statuette is buried an industrial park on the east side of Swindon, and it took some searching and a couple of calls to the operator to find our way through t… (more)

Scavenger Escape: Mozart’s Mystery

Salzburg, Aug 2017

Scavengers Escape’s Salzburg branch has three games, and our choice to play the Mozart one was mainly dictated by timing and by it being described as the hardest of their games. It seemed likely to be another game based around padlocks and old furnit… (more)

Exit The Room: Zombie

Salzburg, Aug 2017

Exit The Room were kind enough to let us play this game 90 mins earlier than we’d booked in for – we didn’t tell them that we wanted to change the time so that we could go try one of their competitor’s rooms too.

Despite the name, there are no zombi… (more)

Mystery Rooms: Captain’s Secret

Munich, Aug 2017

By all rights Mystery Rooms ought to have been quite sick of us after we moved our booking time to an earlier slot, called again a few minutes later to bump it back to its original time, then arrived at the game a full twenty minutes late. But they w… (more)