Kategorie-Archive: International

Quest House: Alice

Rome, Jul 2024

Rated 4.5 out of 5
After two months playing escape rooms in places where the industry is not so developed, walking into the start of this game was a true pleasure – and I suspect it’ll have a similar effect on all but the most jaded. This Alice in Wonderland adaptation… (more)

Yerevan Quest: Disappearance of Neo

Yerevan, Jul 2024

Rated 2 out of 5
I looked at the name of this game and assumed it was a story inspired by the Matrix… but no, as we discovered on arrival, the premise is actually that there’s a missing child named Neo, and you’re investigating his bedroom to try to solve the mystery… (more)

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)