Kategorie-Archive: UK

Escape Time: Sam’s Saloon

Birmingham, Sep 2017

Rated 4 out of 5
The second game we played at Escape Time is also the second one created by the venue (at time of writing, they’ve just announced their upcoming third game), and has a Wild West theme. That’s a style of game that seems curiously neglected by escape ro… (more)

Escape Time: Bank Heist

Birmingham, Sep 2017

Rated 3.5 out of 5
Escape Time is in Sutton Coldfield on the outskirts of Birmingham, a quick drive or a long bus journey out from the centre of the city. It’s an enthusiast-run venue which currently has two games, with a third under construction. We played both games … (more)

Can You Escape: Operation H.E.R.O.

York, Sep 2017

Rated 4 out of 5
This is the second room I’ve tackled from the excellent Can You Escape team, the first being the spaceship themed Operation Odyssey in Edinburgh.
There’s some similarity between their two locations, both hosted upstairs in generic over-shop office … (more)

Clue HQ Birmingham: A-I-9

Birmingham, Sep 2017

Rated 3.5 out of 5
I’m a sucker for most sci-fi themes, so with a choice of games for a morning slot at Clue HQ’s Birmingham branch I went straight for A-I-9’s story of battling a rogue artificial intelligence. Also, the alternatives were their Cell Block C and Bunker … (more)

ClueCapers: Mission to Winchintzy

Winchester, Sep 2017

Rated between 4 and 4.5 out of 5
ClueCapers have memorably idiosyncratic names for their games, and it was some time after I’d first heard of them that I realised the name Winchintzy referred to the theme: chintz. The official storyline has you travelling through a portal into a par… (more)

Lock and Code: Breakout!

Weston-super-mare, Aug 2017

Rated between 3.5 and 4 out of 5
Breakout! is Lock and Code’s third game, the first in their town centre branch, and the most ambitious of their three so far. It’s set in a future dystopia with post-apocalyptic overtones, with more than a few sly nods to the Fallout computer game se… (more)

Lock and Code: The Alchemy Enigma

Weston-super-mare, Aug 2017

Rated 3.5 out of 5
After the prolonged darkness of Lock and Code’s first game, I was looking forward to a nice well-lit room for their Alchemist game, and my heart sunk when we were passed a set of torches once again. Fortunately the light levels were a lot more friend… (more)