Kategorie-Archive: Peterborough

Escape Peterborough: The Bank Heist

Peterborough, Sep 2019

The Bank Vault is of course a heist game. It’s also designed to be a variable score game, where your success is based on how much money you get out with, not how quickly you finish. Staying past the 60 minute mark is a failure, but the gamemaster pro… (more)

Escape Peterborough: Buried Alive

Peterborough, Sep 2019

If you’ve played a few games at the Escape chain, you might feel you have a good idea of what to expect from the company. Be warned that Buried Alive is very much the exception. It’s a distinctive game built around a specific idea, and your enjoyment… (more)

Escape Peterborough: The Great Wine Cellar Swindle

Peterborough, Sep 2019

Each of the three games Escape have built in the Peterborough Museum vaults uses the space in a different way, relating to the crypt’s history: as a mortuary, as a Civil War hiding place, and most prosaically as a wine cellar. The game room in fact c… (more)

Thinking Outside The Box: The Magician’s Apprentice

Peterborough, Jul 2019

I’ll start this review with a warning – Thinking Outside The Box are sadly due to lose their current premises in September, so if you’re reading this before then and you want to try their games (and you should), then you need to be quick. For Magicia… (more)

Hour Escape Rooms: Stranger Things

Peterborough, Jul 2019

With three seasons of the Stranger Things T.V. series now released, I’m starting to see plenty of escape rooms popping up using it as a theme, but I’m fairly sure the one at Hour Escape Rooms was the first one in the U.K. Unlicensed IP considerations… (more)

Hour Escape Rooms: Operation: Dead Planet

Peterborough, Jul 2019

Operation Dead Planet is a game I’ve been trying to play for a while; the 4 player minimum combined with Hour Escape Rooms’ location on the outskirts of Peterborough made it logistically difficult to schedule. The high minimum is due to the split sta… (more)

Thinking Outside The Box: Retro

Peterborough, Apr 2018

One of my favourite local escape room venues, Thinking Outside The Box has a policy of having fairly rapid rebuilds of their two spaces — keeping things fresh and encouraging high levels of repeat custom.

Naturally I was excited to hear their newes… (more)

Trapp’d: The Outlaws of Red Rock

Peterborough, Feb 2018

The second game at the Peterborough branch of Trapp’d is their Western game, though since you start locked up and need to secure a gemstone before escaping, it has prison and heist elements thrown into the mix as well.

At their Northampton branch, I… (more)

Trapp’d: Madame Curio’s Cirque Delirium

Peterborough, Feb 2018

Trapp’d expanded last year to three branches, with the two games in Peterborough being their newest. Cirque Delirium is a carnival theme, where a sinister circus seems to be enslaving its visitors, and you have the usual 60 minutes to find a way out … (more)

Escape Peterborough: The Hunt

Peterborough, Feb 2018

My experience of Escape is that their games are reliably decent, but that the decor and atmosphere are rarely a particular strength – typically a nice enough set of props and themed puzzle components but usually starting from generic office space tha… (more)