Kategorie-Archive: UK

Clockwork Escapes: Where There’s A Will

Wolverhampton, Jun 2019

There aren’t a lot of escape rooms that go to the trouble of portraying an outside. The ones that do always seem to find a way to have fun with it.

Where There’s a Will is set in twilight. The game has some fun props, and some fun spaces both inside… (more)

Chase The Escape: Raid The S.T.A.G.G.

Wolverhampton, Jun 2019

Chase The Escape are an independent company operating out of the same physical location as Clockwork Escapes, filling a space previously occupied by another company, Room Release. This sort of venue sharing seems such a sensible arrangement I’m amaze… (more)

Clockwork Escapes: Alleyway

Wolverhampton, Jun 2019

Alleyway had so many elements that I’d have expected to put me off it. A dirty, dusty environment, a fairly narrow space in which we squeezed past each other in the darkness with not enough torches to go round, with a design that was happy to use got… (more)

Adventure Vault: The Scandal

Shrewsbury, Jun 2019

After playing the medieval-style The Beginning at Adventure Vault, we went straight on to their other game, The Scandal. This has no connection to the other in plot, theme or style: the noir setting seemed set somewhere in the 20th Century, and you a… (more)

Adventure Vault: The Beginning

Shrewsbury, Jun 2019

You wouldn’t guess it from the gnomic title, but The Beginning is set in a medieval/fantasy world which is threatened by cultists who aim to use a dark ritual to unleash a plague. Your task is to stop th- no, actually you are the cultists and … (more)

Cliffhanger Rooms: Haunted Pirate Ship

Backbarrow, May 2019

The haunted pirate ship is a lovely, well themed room. It has a little of everything you’d expect from the ghost of a pirate captain… rum, maps, flags, mice and puzzles.

The puzzles were fun, and the game let us start on a few different things at … (more)

Experimental Escape: The Machine

Leamington Spa, May 2019

The Machine is a fun game with some really interesting features. The space available is well used, and the game seems best suited for 2 or 3 players. The room and puzzles seem really well suited for beginners, with some classic puzzles and interestin… (more)

History Mystery: Leonardo Artmergency!

Central London, Jun 2019

History Mystery specialise in games in distinctive locations, but even by their standards an escape room set in Buckingham Palace is pretty noteworthy. Artmergency is a pop-up, running on selected evenings only through the summer, and takes place in … (more)

Trapped Escape Rooms: The Bletchley Blueprints Are Missing!

Okehampton, Jun 2019

Having just played Trapped’s other game Templars, we plunged straight into Bletchley Blueprints hoping that the game would flow more smoothly. It proved to be somewhat different in gameplay style and decoration, but broadly shared the same strengths … (more)

Trapped Escape Rooms: Templars: The Secret Service

Okehampton, Jun 2019

Sometimes the hardest games to review are those that impress in some ways but then badly disappoint in others. That’s the case with Templars, which seemed to have all the elements to be an exceptionally good game – but then let itself down with deepl… (more)