Kategorie-Archive: International

TTE Rooms: The Golden House

Tbilisi, Jun 2024

Rated 3.5 out of 5
Tbilisi used to have more escape companies, but the pandemic took a toll, and at time of writing I believe there are only two available. TTE Rooms is the closer one to the centre, and has just the one room, the name of which I only discovered after w… (more)

Portal Games: Magic Lamp

Baku, Jun 2024

Rated between 1.5 and 2 out of 5
This was the latest in a series of rooms I tried at random in countries not normally known for escape rooms. Baku does have several companies, but Portal Games is comfortably the largest, with around a dozen different locations, and over thirty games… (more)

Quest Zone: Laboratory

Almaty, Jun 2024

Rated 3 out of 5
Most of Almaty’s escape venues appeared to be either horror houses or no longer operating. Quest Zone was the only exception I managed to find, and they even seemed to be happy to run a game in English. For once, the room was more than theoretically … (more)

Lovushka Kvest: National Treasure

Tashkent, May 2024

Rated between 2 and 3 out of 5
As far as I could ascertain, there are no escape rooms in Tashkent that can be played in English – the primary language used in the game is Russian. Lovushka Kvest was the only company that I got a reply from, and they made it clear that some materia… (more)

Tuzak: Escape From Heist

Istanbul, May 2024

Rated 3 out of 5
Tuzak, which is Turkish for Trap, is located in the Asian half of Istanbul, and currently run just this one game, though I believe in the past they’re operated more. Escape from Heist is based on the TV series Money Heist (La Casa del Papel), though … (more)

Myst Entertainment: The Secret of Kryptos

Sofia, May 2024

Rated 4.5 out of 5
We’d missed Kryptos on our first visit to Sofia six years earlier, and almost missed it this time too, but managed to find time for a trip to it before leaving, and were thoroughly glad we’d done so. On booking we had to choose between ‘normal’ and ‘… (more)

MDB Escape Room: Road to Freedom

Sofia, Apr 2024

Rated 3 out of 5
I really want to like Road to Freedom. It has so much going for it, starting with the original setting in which you are Bulgarian partisans in 1876, striving for national independence from the Ottoman Empire. This room looks impressive and immersive … (more)

MDB Escape Room: El Patron

Sofia, Apr 2024

Rated 3.5 out of 5
A Bulgarian room with a Spanish name, El Patrón (think ‘The Godfather’) is based around 80s drug lord Pablo Escobar. We were DEA agents, and apparently we were trying to find a ledger full of evidence, though we may have lost track of that during the… (more)

Enigmania: Voodoo

Sofia, Apr 2024

Rated 4.5 out of 5
It was only when en route to Enigmania that we discovered the game’s unusual requirement: that we each bring a small personal item. This needed some quick improvisation, though fortunately they weren’t too picky about the items we provided – there’s … (more)