Kategorie-Archive: Hamburg

Big Break: Insomnia

Hamburg, Feb 2025

This is a premise that at another venue could easily have been a horror room: plagued by insomnia, you undergo experimental therapy to enter your own dreamworld to defeat your inner demons, before you’re trapped there forever. But while this does hav… (more)

Team Escape Hamburg: Aus Versehen Apokalypse

Hamburg, Feb 2025

This was a game that I booked primarily for logistical reasons, looking for something that I could squeeze into a small afternoon gap in a tight schedule of games. So I didn’t have particularly high hopes for it, particularly since Team Escape is a m… (more)

Skurrilum: Die Phantominsel (The Phantom Island)

Hamburg, Nov 2017

Fresh out of Skurrilum’s Malvini game, we plunged into the pirate-themed Phantom Island. A few eyebrows were raised when they handed out four head-mounted torches between five players, but fortunately it turned out to be decently lit throughout the g… (more)

Skurrilum: Malvinis Vermächtnis (Malvini’s Legacy)

Hamburg, Nov 2017

Skurrilum’s reputation precedes them, and we added on a side trip to Hamburg purely to try out their games. Frustratingly, only two of their five games are currently available in English, with the rest requiring fluent German, but we eagerly booked i… (more)

Twisted Rooms: Der Angriff (The Attack)

Hamburg, Nov 2017

Der Angriff, which translates to ‚The Attack‘, is a bomb defusal game, or rather a missile defusal game. A nuclear missile is in flight and one hour away from impact in London, and you need to break into the command HQ and trigger its self-destruct m… (more)

Fluchtweg: Voyager 2076

Hamburg, Nov 2017

Sci-fi games often have particularly sophisticated sets. After all, if you’re going to build the interior of a spaceship or something equally futuristic, that’s an excuse to go all out, right? Not this game – here the decor is closer to a 60s low-bud… (more)