Kategorie-Archive: International

Xcape Singapore: Busan Express

Singapore, Dec 2022

With seven games currently running, Xcape is one of Singapore’s largest venues. They also categorise their rooms into ‘seasons’, with the current crop being their third season. All seven games have themes that are at least semi-horror, and we picked … (more)

Key Room: Dracula’s Elixir of Immortality

Istanbul, Dec 2022

Turkey’s escape scene is heavily dominated by horror houses, with few traditional escape rooms still available, and I’ve seen almost no reviews of the handful that exist in Istanbul; so I picked Key Room more or less at random. They have just the one… (more)

Escape Room Gili Air: Inheritance

Gili Air, Nov 2022

I wasn’t looking for escape rooms in Gili Air, a tiny tropical island off the coast of Lombok, and was frankly astounded to see a sign for one when I arrived. The island’s primary attractions are sun, sand and snorkelling, but I certainly wasn’t goin… (more)

Pandora Experience: Shutter Asylum

Bali, Oct 2022

At time of writing there are only two escape room companies open on Bali, and the one you’re much more likely to encounter is Pandora Experience, a chain active throughout Indonesia. They advertise their games with movie-style posters, and the one we… (more)

Lost.sg: Castiglione

Singapore, Oct 2022

Castiglione is not a terrible game, but it is showing its age, and even if in mint condition would still have flaws. The name refers to Giuseppe Castiglione, an Italian sculptor who worked in the Imperial Chinese court in the 19th Century, making a s… (more)

First Escape: The Subway

Vienna, Sep 2022

This is a game I hadn’t planned to play on our very brief visit to Vienna, but on hearing how strongly it was recommended I jumped at the opportunity to play in a fortuitously empty morning slot.

The Subway takes place in an actual metro carriage, f… (more)

Crime Runners: Going Underground

Vienna, Sep 2022

Thrice a TERPECA winner, Going Underground has a firmly established reputation as the top game in Austria. It’s at a separate location to the other Crime Runners rooms, and where the others form a single story, Going Underground seems to be a … (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)