Kategorie-Archive: International

Unleash: L’expedition Aronnax

Paris, Sep 2023

Rated 4.5 out of 5
The genre of submarine games can be broadly divided into steampunk and non-steampunk variants, and if you’ve read your Jules Verne the name of this one will make it clear that it’s of the former type. And where other rooms with similar themes only ta… (more)

Experience Dresden: Huntingdon

Dresden, Sep 2023

Rated between 3.5 and 4 out of 5
Is Huntingdon an escape room? In most respects it is, but the emphasis and the experience are different enough that you should try hard not to bring to it any preconceptions about how escape rooms normally work.
Where many rooms introduce the story … (more)

Gamescape Kraków: Klątwa Smoka

Kraków, Sep 2023

Rated 3.5 out of 5
With only a day to spend in the beautiful historic city of Kraków, we… booked ourselves into an impulse escape room, of course. Gamescape is out to the west of the centre, but close enough to be walkable, and has a sufficiently large selection of roo… (more)

Mystery Machinery: Laboratorium Tesli

Katowice, Sep 2023

Rated 3.5 out of 5
Located in a shopping centre out by the Katowice Załęże station on the west side of the city, Mystical Machinery have seven escape rooms and a laser tag arena; when we visited, the lobby was full of excited children with plastic guns. They also have … (more)

Mind Maze: Galactic Pioneers

Prague, Aug 2023

Rated 4.5 out of 5
Every spaceship develops potentially catastrophic problems at some point in its journey, and every spaceship can be fixed by sufficient fiddling with electronic panels and screens. That, at least, is what I’ve learned from escape rooms. In Galactic P… (more)

Mind Maze: An Incredible Story of Nautilus

Prague, Aug 2023

Rated 4.5 out of 5
These days Mind Maze has three separate locations; conveniently for visiting enthusiasts, the two TERPECA-nominated rooms are both at the same address. We played both, starting with Nautilus.
You’d guess from the name that Nautilus is a steampunk-st… (more)

LostExit: Kino Úsvit

Prague, Aug 2023

Rated 4.5 out of 5
The escape room industry is always advancing and becoming more sophisticated, so there’s little place for nostalgia, no golden age to look back to, when the cutting edge just keeps improving. Even so, Úsvit Cinema struck me as showcasing several virt… (more)

Mystiqueroom: Cube

Budapest, Aug 2023

Rated between 3.5 and 4 out of 5
I picked Cube for our second game at Mystiqueroom because it was their highest rated, without really knowing what the theme was. As it turned out, the stronger half of the room design clearly takes inspiration from the sci-fi movie of the same name, … (more)

Mystiqueroom: Pirate Bay

Budapest, Aug 2023

Rated between 3 and 3.5 out of 5
There are at least three pirate-themed rooms in Budapest, giving you a choice of Ship, Bay or Cave; Mystiqueroom’s version is the Bay, and we found it visually impressive but a bit temperamental on the puzzle mechanisms.
Our mission was to get the W… (more)