Kategorie-Archive: International

New World 22: Secret of the Orphanage

Warsaw, Mar 2017

Horror themed rooms appear to be popular in Warsaw. We played four in a weekend, and each had a very different style to it. With Orphanage, the style was exuberantly disturbing, combining decrepit institution horror with freaky images and a whole lot… (more)

Room Escape: Medieval

Warsaw, Mar 2017

This was our third room by Room Escape, and when we booked it the staff member was super-excited for us, without explaining why. It soon became clear when we entered the room. After the initial video briefing, the lights came on and we were surrounde… (more)

Room Escape: Indiana

Warsaw, Mar 2017

I liked the welcome for their rooms; in this case, an expedition video with an Indiana Jones soundtrack to get us revved up before going in. We were then led in blindfolded and led into the the tomb.

On opening our eyes, the decoration was a mix of… (more)

Room Escape: Laboratory

Warsaw, Mar 2017

We’ve now done a few lab style rooms, both good and bad, and this fell towards the upper end. Going in we got the expected feel – lots of lab style props to play around with.

There were a nice variety of physical/mechanical puzzles, searching and lo… (more)

Team Exit: Spy at the President’s

Warsaw, Mar 2017

Billed as Team Exit’s harder game, it started and ended strongly, but had weak points through the middle. The briefing (pay attention!) instructs you to deactivate the lasers in the room, which give a very impressive atmospheric start; similarly the … (more)

Escapers: Abandoned Hotel

Warsaw, Mar 2017

I’ve categorised this room as a horror themed game, but ‚creepy and melancholic‘ would be more accurate. There are no plastic body parts or blood spatters on walls, but the crooked pictures and dowdy wallpaper successfully evoke a quietly unsettling … (more)

Escapers: Tomb of the Dragon

Warsaw, Mar 2017

Poland has a very established directory / rating site for escape rooms, and (at time of writing) Tomb of the Dragon holds the coveted number one spot in their list. For that reason we made the journey out to play it, even though it’s quite a long way… (more)

Black Cat Escape Rooms: Bunkier (Bunker)

Warsaw, Mar 2017

An avalanche has unearthed the entrance to a lost Nazi bunker that may contain hidden gold, and for reasons I never quite grasped you have a one hour time limit to find it and get out.

Appropriately, this begins with you needing to break into the ac… (more)

Black Cat Escape Rooms: Dom Mordercy (Murder House)

Warsaw, Mar 2017

This is not a game for the squeamish. Content warning: expect graphic imagery of nudity and mutilation.

Horror themed rooms are often gratuitously low-lit. This one hits a good balance, dingy enough to be atmospheric but with enough visibility to se… (more)

Brain Game CPH: The Last Passenger

Copenhagen, Jan 2017

A linear, lightly themed game with plenty of padlocks, this room tries to incorporate some more creative touches but does so in an incoherent way that made it a frustrating game to play.

The theme is loosely based on Murder on the Orient Express, an… (more)