Kategorie-Archive: International

The Paradox Project

Athens, Jun 2018

Your uncle used to run a mine in Africa. Now „the Bitter Truth“ is hidden inside his flat. Your job is to find it and make sure it’s safe.

The paradox project is an unusual escape game in a number of ways. First, both the reception area (with refre… (more)

Escapepolis: Roswell 1947

Athens, Jun 2018

You are a reporter in 1947 and your girlfriend who works as a nurse in the nearby Roswell airbase morgue has gone missing after telling you she had discovered something exciting.

The room manager spoke with some passion about how stories drive his … (more)

Citiclue Athens: Dragon Quest

Athens, Jun 2018

Your lord has assigned you the task of stealing three dragon eggs in the castle, by gaining information about rival factions. This, then, is an unashamed rip off of a well known fantasy franchise.

The room has a nice amount of physicality to it, in … (more)

Sherlocked Homes: Sherlock Maze

Athens, Jun 2018

You’ve located and broken into Sherlock Holmes‘ secret Athenian Office, but it’s booby trapped. You have 60 minutes before you are permanently trapped in the „labyrinth of his mind“.

On entering there are two notable features: a big final physical p… (more)

Sherlocked Homes: The Cursed Willy

Athens, Jun 2018

It’s 1719 and you’re hunting a secret tune which is rumoured to grant all who hear it eternal life. Willie the pirate stole it from some natives (who cursed him), and no-one since has come back from his lair alive. Whilst searching for the tune the … (more)

Teorema: Atlantis

Sofia, May 2018

When researching games to play in Sofia and when chatting to local owners, more than once I heard Atlantis described as the best game in the city, stated not as a personal opinion but as an uncontroversial fact. The justification for that became clea… (more)

3Keys Rooms: The Secret Bar of Al Capone

Sofia, May 2018

Playing two Prohibition-themed games in two different cities in the space of a couple of days, I found both takes on the theme thoroughly successful in different ways. This version by 3Keys boasts an extended game length of 70 minutes and a play area… (more)

Dextrophobia: vol. 2

Sofia, May 2018

This curiously named game is second in a series that currently numbers three in total, each in a different location in Sofia; I chose to play the second one because that was the one I’d noticed recommendations for. Despite the implied continuity, Dex… (more)

Endorphin Games: BlueLab

Sofia, May 2018

Not many escape room briefings ask players whether they have any experience cooking class A drugs, but BlueLab is based on the Breaking Bad television serial, and presents you with an industrial chemical laboratory in which you need to work out how t… (more)

Escape Arena: The Last Adventure of Indiana Jones

Bucharest, May 2018

By what I can only assume is a curious coincidence, every time I’ve played an escape game hosted in a pub it’s turned out well. (And no, I don’t drink before playing games, so it’s not because of the reviewer equivalent of beer goggles!) Perhaps less… (more)