Kategorie-Archive: International

Mindspark Escape: Virtual Escape Rooms

Phoenix, Feb 2018

Mindspark offer a personalised 10 minute headset experience escape room. They have 3 rooms available with varying difficulties; I chose to escape an Alien Spacecraft. Although short and slightly rushed, it was fun with good simple puzzles, moving aro… (more)

Riddle Escape Room: FBI Interview

Phoenix, Feb 2018

In this room you need to escape a room to pass your FBI training using a mixture of mental and sleuthing. The decor throughout is basic but appropriate. I normally mark down rooms with lots of padlocks – however clear sign posting meant that there w… (more)

Escape Rush: Submarine Bunker

Brussels, Jan 2018

Really good games are harder to compare with each other. While every escape game is different, after playing a few hundred games, their relative quality mainly comes down to the same few factors: are the puzzles interesting and fun, well-designed and… (more)

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)