Kategorie-Archive: Lincoln

Project Mayhem: FEAR

Lincoln, Jul 2024

FEAR has a reputation, having won the players’ choice vote for scariest escape room in the UK. You could characterise Project Mayhem’s three games as ‘fun and fear’ (Jangles), ‘puzzles and fear’ (Mary), and ‘fear and fear’ (FEAR). Which isn’t to over… (more)

Project Mayhem: The Rituals of Mary

Lincoln, Jul 2024

Our second game at Project Mayhem was accurately described as their most traditional escape room experience, in the sense of having the most puzzles. Even so, it’s definitely more a horror experience than a puzzle room.

The premise is a horror class… (more)

Project Mayhem: Jangles‘ Carnival

Lincoln, Jul 2024

Scary games are dark; it’s true of pretty much every horror game I’ve played or heard of. It’s a straightforward, natural way to build atmosphere and fear – but Jangles’ Carnival is an exception, being brightly lit pretty much the whole way through…. (more)

Deliverance Escape Rooms: Martha – The Haunting of Derwent Manor

Lincoln, Jul 2024

I have good memories of Deliverance from my previous trip to Lincoln some years earlier, and was curious to see how well a return visit lived up to those, particularly since Martha is currently the highest rated of their four rooms. The majority of t… (more)

Escape Lincoln: The Magic Emporium

Lincoln, Nov 2019

As the number of venues and games in the now-huge Escape franchise increases, they now sometimes have more than one game design using a similar theme, so for clarification The Magic Emporium is an entirely different game to the Witchcraft and Wizardr… (more)

Deliverance: The Hideaway

Lincoln, Nov 2019

Although you can play it stand-alone, Hideaway is a direct sequel to Deliverance’s first game Cabin In The Woods, and their website encourages you not to read the game description if you want to avoid spoilers for the previous game. Your role is no l… (more)

Deliverance: Cabin In The Woods

Lincoln, Nov 2019

The woods must be packed with small sinister cabins, each inhabited by its own bloodthirsty maniac; and inevitably we end up wandering into one after another. Increasingly often escape rooms with this theme start you off outside the cabin; that’s the… (more)

Enigma Rooms Lincoln: S.W.A.T.

Lincoln, Nov 2019

The best thing about finishing an escape room early is the way it lets you squeeze an extra one into your schedule at short notice. Fortunately Enigma Rooms were nearby and able to fit us in straightaway, so we happily sacrificed our lunchbreak for a… (more)