Kategorie-Archive: International

Unreal Sabadell: Nightshift

Barcelona, Jan 2025

I wouldn’t describe myself as a fan of horror escape rooms, particularly. Given a choice of themes at a venue I’ll usually pick a non-horror one, and I’m more likely to enjoy a top horror game despite the scares than because of them; sometimes I find… (more)

Escapem: Bajo Zero

Barcelona, Jan 2025

Bajo Zero was a game that I thought illustrated just how far standards have risen in escape rooms over the last decade. It’s not far off ten years old, and when it opened it must have been quite a standout. In 2025 it’s still a fun game with lots to … (more)

The City Escape Room: La Taberna

Barcelona, Jan 2025

One of the three highest ranked rooms in Europe on the TERPECA list, created by a collaboration between two Spanish companies who each have their own record of building award-winning games, La Taberna is a giant in a city full of remarkable rooms. Ev… (more)

Outline Escape Room: Outline

Barcelona, Jan 2025

Outline is superlative in a number of ways. Including for the most extravagant use of smoke – I didn’t realise a smoke machine was capable of creating such a fog that you can’t even see your own outstretched hands. The hosts did say at the end that t… (more)

Golden Pop: Jurásico

Barcelona, Jan 2025

As a rule of thumb, dinosaur themes are good silly fun, and involve plenty of suspension of disbelief. After all, it’s a pretty tall order to convince a group of players that they’re not just in some room solving puzzles, but exploring a tropical rai… (more)

Factoría Escape Room: Golpe perfecto en el jardín de Buda

Valencia, Jan 2025

The distinctive name of this escape room had caught my attention back when it first got a TERPECA award – and of course winning the award was a strong recommendation for it too. For that reason we booked it as the second of two rooms to play on our b… (more)

The X-Door: La Peluquería

Valencia, Jan 2025

Spanish games – at least the top tier ones – have a fondness for cold starts, where the game begins without meeting any staff unless they’re already in character. That’s the case here too, though there was an initial intro with a chance to use the ba… (more)

Puzzle Room Bangkok: Lost Symbol

Bangkok, Dec 2024

This was a rare game that I played solo, since I was passing through Bangkok on my own. The company doesn’t provide an online booking system, and don’t officially support teams smaller than two people, so it took some negotiation over WhatsApp to arr… (more)

Miss Terry: Blood Dragon

Hanoi, Nov 2024

Miss Terry currently has three locations within Hanoi, one of which is in the Old Quarter and therefore significantly more convenient to get to for most visitors. We chose the theme with a Hong Kong triad crime theme.

As appears to be standard for g… (more)

iEscape: The Basement

Hoi An, Nov 2024

I’d thought that all the escape rooms in Hoi An had closed during the pandemic, but we found an exception or perhaps a newer addition. My hopes weren’t high though, because this is a single room being run downstairs in a hostel style hotel, as one of… (more)