Kategorie-Archive: UK

Komnata Quest: Sherlocked

London, Sep 2021

Rated 1.5 out of 5
In real life, being kidnapped by a criminal and left shackled in a box next to a ticking bomb would I suppose be a thoroughly unpleasant experience – so in that sense I guess you could say that Komnata have nailed the realism here.
Sherlocked is a 4… (more)

Komnata Quest: Maze of Hakaina

London, Sep 2021

Rated 3 out of 5
Maze of Hakaina was for a time the well-reviewed flagship game at Komnata‘s New York branch, and was opened in London with a certain amount of fanfare. It’s easy to see how it could have caused some stir back when it was originally launched, with muc… (more)

Escape Kent: Pirates of the Stormy Seas

Canterbury, Jun 2021

Rated 4 out of 5
I’d been meaning to return to Escape Kent and play their pirate game for something like four years, during which time it’s gone from their exciting new game to one of the more venerable ones at the venue. There was a certain amount of buzz about it a… (more)

Escape Kent: The Haunting

Canterbury, Jun 2021

Rated 4 out of 5
It’s often hard to know when booking a game with a spooky theme whether it’s going to be mildly creepy or sixty minutes of terror. But most nervous players should be fine with The Haunting – the fear factor here shouldn’t go above a degree of apprehe… (more)

TimeQuest: Elf Magic 2: The Santa Clause

Tonbridge, Nov 2021

Rated 3.5 out of 5
I’ll admit to being a natural Grinch on whom the joys of Christmas spirit are largely wasted, and so I normally only play one or two festive games each year; TimeQuest’s was my only such physical room for the 2021 season, so I was glad to find it was… (more)

Swamp Motel: The Drop

London, Nov 2021

Rated 4 out of 5
Swamp Motel will be familiar to many enthusiasts from their Isklander trilogy of online games released during lockdowns, starting with Plymouth Point; they’ve now moved from the internet to the real world, and The Drop is a physical escape room / imm… (more)

SENSAS

London, Sep 2021

Rated 3.5 out of 5
SENSAS is not an escape room. As an experience it’s closer to the style of the live Crystal Maze, in that it involves a series of challenges for you to tackle as a team, collecting tokens for your successes as you go. Unlike the Crystal Maze, in SENS… (more)

Escape Reading: Ram Raid

Reading, Feb 2020

Rated 4.5 out of 5
Many venues invest greater amounts of money and tech in each new game they create. I think that’s true of Escape Reading too, but they’ve also shown something rarer and more important: an ever-improving ability to make their games engaging, logical a… (more)