Kategorie-Archive: Budapest

Mystiqueroom: Cube

Budapest, Aug 2023

I picked Cube for our second game at Mystiqueroom because it was their highest rated, without really knowing what the theme was. As it turned out, the stronger half of the room design clearly takes inspiration from the sci-fi movie of the same name, … (more)

Mystiqueroom: Pirate Bay

Budapest, Aug 2023

There are at least three pirate-themed rooms in Budapest, giving you a choice of Ship, Bay or Cave; Mystiqueroom’s version is the Bay, and we found it visually impressive but a bit temperamental on the puzzle mechanisms.

Our mission was to get the W… (more)

Aroom: Sky Heist

Budapest, Aug 2023

Aroom and Locked Room are different venues that are part of the same company and a single website, but Aroom is the one that tends to get the more favourable reviews. I’ve only previously played their zombie theme Deadland, but enjoyed it enough to m… (more)

ARoom: Deadland

Budapest, Sep 2022

Ask for Budapest game recommendations and you’ll mostly get the usual list of well-known classics that have been played and loved for years. Ask for recommendations for Budapest rooms that have opened more recently, and Aroom is likely to get mention… (more)

Pirate Cave

Budapest, Sep 2022

Downtown Budapest is packed with escape rooms; even with the most intense schedule you could play games for a week without needing to leave the centre. So it’s pretty impressive that Pirate Cave has survived and thrived for close to a decade despite … (more)

Neverland: Aztec Catacomb

Budapest, Sep 2022

Neverland’s underground venue gives an otherworldly impression: it seemed like we’d found a whole complex of vividly coloured chambers, a sprawling space leading off to one escape room after another. They do indeed have an impressive number of escape… (more)

E-Exit: Secret Subway

Budapest, Sep 2022

Long a fixture on the Budapest scene, E-Exit has several often-recommended rooms, but Secret Subway is the newest and longest, at 75 minutes, as well as the one that tends to get the highest plaudits. In it you’re delving into a forgotten inventor’s … (more)

Gozsdu Mission: White Mission

Budapest, Sep 2022

Budapest’s reputation as an early centre for the escape room explosion is legendary; and White Mission is among the city’s most famous games. That’s due to the game’s concept, startlingly original when first created, that instead of a room filled wit… (more)

PANiQ-ROOM: Darkroom

Budapest, Aug 2014

This was the first large team (more than 5 players) room we did. I remember it as rather chaotic, and some of that must have been because of the larger number of people. But it also seemed more amateurish and less polished than the Claustrophilia and… (more)

Claustrophilia: Voodoo Tales

Budapest, Aug 2014

Like the other Claustrophilia room, this is a very puzzle-centric room with a couple of refreshingly physical tasks as well as the usual assortment of search and solve puzzles. It’s more heavily themed, and pleasantly creepy.

However, the Claustroph… (more)