Escape Reality Leeds: The Iron Kingdom

The room was very dark which I didn’t feel was totally necessary for the theme of the room. The room was well designed and in keeping with the theme. Unfortunately there were a few dealbreakers which lead to my lower rating. Firstly there is a system where you ask for a clue specifically for one task and it is clear which task the clue is for. However, the answer we received was for the wrong task which led to the host coming into the room and realising we had the wrong clue - this took up time, broke immersion and gave us a clue for later that I’d have liked to try and figure out myself. It turned out the task had also been tampered with hence our being stuck and also took up time that then led to us going over at the end. The host almost seemed to suggest they were doing us a favour by allowing us to stay 2 extra minutes to escape. One further element later in the game did not work and the host came in to help.

If everything had gone as it should, the rating would be quite high but that is even more frustrating!