Kategorie-Archive: International

Enygma: Mr Fogg’s Residence

Brussels, Jan 2018

Rated between 3.5 and 4 out of 5
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

Rated between 4 and 4.5 out of 5
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)

The Room: The Lost Treasure

Berlin, Nov 2017

Rated between 4.5 and 5 out of 5
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)

The Room: Go West

Berlin, Nov 2017

Rated between 3.5 and 4.5 out of 5
We played the three games at The Room in the order in which they were created, starting with their oldest, in which your goal is to escape from Cold War era East Berlin through to the freedom of the West. That’s a theme that could mean a gritty, seri… (more)

House of Tales: Columbus

Berlin, Nov 2017

Rated between 2.5 and 3.5 out of 5
House of Tales‘ popup game imagines a world in which Christopher Columbus gave up his ambitions to sail the seas, and instead became a carpenter specialising in boxes. (Okay, there’s a story about it being the storage hold on his sea voyages or somet… (more)

House of Tales: The Executioner

Berlin, Nov 2017

Rated between 4 and 4.5 out of 5
The Executioner is a horror game, but while it follows some of the usual tropes of the genre – a start involving separation and imprisonment, plenty of rather grisly props – it’s not the usual serial killer story. Instead, you’ve been captured by a m… (more)

House of Tales: Kowloon – Walled City

Berlin, Nov 2017

Rated between 3.5 and 4 out of 5
Kowloon is an 18-rated escape game, and although the website description of the story doesn’t entirely spell it out, the plot is that you’re Triad gang members, breaking into a rival gang’s premises to swipe their loot. The premises in question happe… (more)