Kategorie-Archive: Southampton

Houdini’s Escape Room: Extinct

Southampton, Jan 2023

In a departure from normal, I played Extinct as part of a family group including two kids (9 and 12) who were more or less new to escape rooms, which meant a rather different dynamic to playing solely with adult enthusiasts. The venue was clearly set… (more)

Houdini Escape: Escape From Titanic

Southampton, Jul 2018

‘Immersive’ is a worrying term for a game based on the sinking of the Titanic, but fortunately they don’t take things as far as plunging players into the icy waters of the Atlantic. Instead, this game places the players in an upper class berth on the… (more)

Other World Escapes: Vermilion

Southampton, Jul 2018

The second game from Other World is Vermilion, and has clearly been designed as a race game: there are two side by side copies, placed so that two teams can be briefed together then start at the same time. We played as just one team, with an unrelat… (more)

Exciting Escapes: Spies In Space

Southampton, Jul 2018

Assigning ratings to escape rooms is rarely easy, and it’s much harder when a game is ambitious and inventive in a way that gives it the potential to stand out, but then undermines that potential with the way it’s implemented – it can mean wildly dif… (more)

Elusion Escape Rooms: Seven Sins

Southampton, Jul 2018

No matter how much I firmly maintain that I don’t much like horror games, escape rooms like Seven Sins come along and demonstrate that that’s not really true. I could try to claim I liked it despite the horror theme, but that won’t wash: the t… (more)

Other World Escapes: Mayan

Southampton, Aug 2017

Playing lots of escape rooms trains a curious set of skills – for example, I now find that I can read Mayan numerals without the need for a look-up chart. (They are admittedly very straightforward.) The latest Mayan themed game we played was at Other… (more)

Cyantist: The Cube

Southampton, Aug 2017

We hadn’t planned to play both games at Cyantist, but after finishing Crystal Maze we had a gap in our schedule and I was curious about their second game – whereas Crystal Maze had been (accurately) described as a different sort of experience to an e… (more)

Cyantist: Crystal Maze

Southampton, Aug 2017

Crystal Maze is quite different from what most enthusiasts may have come to expect from an escape game. The website tells you that „a big variety of puzzles are waiting to get solved“, and that’s exactly accurate: the game is designed around the solv… (more)

Houdini Escape: Escape from Alcatraz

Southampton, Aug 2017

When reviewing games I rarely say much about the venue outside the game itself. A polished intro or an enthusiastic welcome from the host can get the experience off to a good start, but for me at least is rarely a large factor in how I feel about a g… (more)

Elusion Escape Rooms: The Pandora Heist

Southampton, Aug 2017

A small handful of escape games give you a goal other than completing the game as quickly as possible, and Pandora Heist is one of them. This is a heist game where instead of a bank vault you’re sneaking into the collection chambers of another art th… (more)