Kategorie-Archive: UK

Guildford Escape Rooms: The Case of the Missing Gun

Guildford, Apr 2018

The original room at Guildford Escape Rooms is dramatically different to its sibling game, in tone, style and setting, but achieves a similar high level of quality. The Case of the Missing Gun is based in 1930s Prohibition, and where the venue’s othe… (more)

Guildford Escape Rooms: Venus

Guildford, Apr 2018

If you’ve ever found Siri or Alexa slightly creepy, then Venus is the game for you. The setting is the not too distant future, in a wholesome, gently futuristic suburban living room under the perhaps not so benevolent care of a Venus home AI system. … (more)

Containment: The Vault

Guildford, Apr 2018

The second game we played at Containment was their original and oldest game. As with the previous one, the game is inside a large shipping container. Where the bomb defusal game we’d just played had a theme that obviously fit well with that, The Vaul… (more)

Containment: The Bomb

Guildford, Apr 2018

Containment is located a short drive outside Guildford, on the Merrist Wood College campus, and between the countryside location and ebullient staff, it had an outdoorsy style that reminded me of a paintball centre – though that impression may also h… (more)

Crack The Code: Zoltan

Sheffield, Apr 2018

Exactly 24 hours after attempting their Apartment 9 room, we were back at Crack the Code Sheffield for Zoltan.

This room’s description explains how the famous local magician Zoltan has mysteriously disappeared and it’s down to us to figure out where… (more)

Crack The Code: Apartment 9

Sheffield, Apr 2018

Since my last visit to this venue, they’ve changed not only their entrance point, but also the space in which the games are hosted. Sort of shuffling down the building, if you will. The usual faff of buzzer-entry escape rooms ensued, and we were hang… (more)

TimeTrap Escape Rooms: Rebellion – 1136

Reading, Mar 2018

Few escape games open with an explanation of one of the more obscure parts of English history, but Rebellion does and pulls it off smoothly. As the intro succinctly explains, you’re travelling back to the 12th century to retrieve the royal crown for … (more)

Escape Reading: The Vampire Slayers

Reading, Mar 2018

Horror rooms are a varied lot, and can be anything from puzzle-driven games with a few blood splatters and fake severed fingers to set the scene, through to full on terror experiences where solving anything is complicated by flickering lights and cha… (more)

Escape Reading: Kidnapped

Reading, Mar 2018

The first of the two horror themes we tried at Escape Reading’s central branch was Kidnapped, which avoids outright scares in favour of building a subtle creepy atmosphere. (For those who hate jump scares, there should be little to worry about here.)… (more)

Escape Reading: The Bank Robbery

Reading, Mar 2018

Bank Robbery is one of the two games at Escape Reading’s original branch, located on the west side of the city. I frequently book games without reading their descriptions very closely, and I’d assumed from the name we’d be robbing a bank. Instead, th… (more)