Kategorie-Archive: Macclesfield

Escape Quest: Percy Pendleton’s Peculiar Predicament

Macclesfield, Jul 2024

Escape Quest’s unusual model presents a challenge for enthusiasts who want to check off all their rooms – since only one is available at a time, the only way to do so is with multiple pilgrimages to Macclesfield, one every few months. We missed out o… (more)

Escape Quest: Henry Fortune’s House of Illusion

Macclesfield, Oct 2023

There are vanishingly few occasions in which I’ve replayed an escape room, and I’m not sure this counts as one of them. This new version of Henry Fortune is part of Escape Quest’s Chapelgate Mysteries, an overarching time travel setting that now incl… (more)

Escape Quest: Henry Fortune’s House of Illusion

Macclesfield, Apr 2019

I don’t get many chances to visit the north west, and when I finally got an opportunity to do so a return visit to Escape Quest was top of the agenda. As with their Curious Encounters game, this meant playing with a team of two despite the official m… (more)

Escape Quest: Curious Encounters

Macclesfield, Apr 2019

Curious Encounters has been running at Escape Quest for several years now, but with a significant revamp in 2017. I never played the original version, so can’t comment on whether the changes amount to an entirely new game; if in doubt check with the … (more)

Escape Quest: The 13th Element

Macclesfield, Jul 2017

The second game we played at Escape Quest was 13th Element, billed as their hardest game. The plot is a fairly standard one about a mad scientist and a chemical macguffin that must be destroyed before it is used.

My first impression of the room was … (more)

Escape Quest: Mr. Chuckles‘ Funhouse

Macclesfield, Jul 2017

Mr. Chuckles‘ Funhouse is an updated version of the earlier Escape Quest game Bad Clown, which was a 90 minute game with a live actor and a propensity to terrify. The current game is toned down to be less scary and of a normal length.

The game opens… (more)