Kategorie-Archive: International

Let Me Out: Alice in Wonderland

Brussels, Jan 2018

Alice in Wonderland is not a particularly common theme, but the games I’ve seen based on it have tended to take full advantage of the excuse for gloriously madcap decorations. Let Me Out’s version is particularly pretty, full of creative craziness an… (more)

Let Me Out: Spaceship

Brussels, Jan 2018

Let Me Out’s sci-fi game places you aboard Hermes, a spaceship whose crew have vanished following possible foul play. Your task is to find out what happened and recover a critical document.

I found the set simultaneously impressive and very low-tech… (more)

Escape Prod: Blacksad – Private Detective

Brussels, Jan 2018

Escape Prod’s second game is, like their first, based on a comic book that may or may not be familiar to English-speaking players. Blacksad is a series of noir detective stories set in 1950s America, with an anthropomorphic cat as the eponymous hero…. (more)

Escape Prod: The Daltons‘ Escape

Brussels, Jan 2018

I’m told that Lucky Luke the cowboy and his hapless adversaries the Daltons are comic book characters with fame rivalling that of Asterix or Tintin, but I’d somehow never come across them until this escape room. For those equally unfamiliar with them… (more)

Chamber Challenge: The Lab

Brussels, Jan 2018

Squeezing in a short-notice visit to Chamber Challenge during a gap in our schedule, they kindly adjusted their schedule to allow us to play The Lab. The familiar-sounding theme turns out to have an unusual and gently educational premise that explore… (more)

Enygma: Mr Fogg’s Residence

Brussels, Jan 2018

I’d tried Enygma on a previous visit to Brussels a year and a half earlier. On that occasion I was underwhelmed by the puzzles in their Mayan game but subsequently felt I’d been overly harsh on it, so a return trip to the venue was high on my list. T… (more)

Locked: Labyrint

Ghent, Jan 2018

I’m tempted to start this review with ‚Labyrint is not an escape room‘, but that’s not true – it is an escape room, it’s just a rather unusual one. It seems its creator conceived of and built it entirely independently, without having discovere… (more)

Reykjavik Escape: The Scientist

Reykjavik, Jan 2018

Reykjavik Escape is, at time of writing, the only escape venue in Iceland. Located a little to the east of the main tourist district, they have a set of four rooms with fairly standard themes, and we picked the science-themed one over the prison, kid… (more)

The Room: The Beast of Berlin

Berlin, Nov 2017

Second of the three games currently available at The Room, The Beast of Berlin has you investigating a serial killer, and is significantly darker than its two sibling games. Whereas I’d encourage you to play their other games with a team of 2-3, Beas… (more)

The Room: The Lost Treasure

Berlin, Nov 2017

I’ve seen more than one enthusiast describe Lost Treasure as the best escape room in Europe. Of course, tastes vary, and no one person can play more than a selection of the games available, so clearly any such claim is only a matter of subjective opt… (more)