The Panic Room Harlow: Carnevil

Appropriately themed as a spooky carnival with a spooky host. In the main room there are more carnival mini games than actual puzzles as such, so depends if you like more physical games rather than logic puzzles. There were however more standard escape room puzzles as well, and enough to keep us on our toes for the hour

Really clever from the get-go. A fantastic host, absolutely great puzzles and theming. Top notch. This is one of the best we've done. 

One of the carnival games malfunctioned during our session but the host did an exceptional job to ensure minimal disruption to the room.  The very end doesn't quite match the level of the room as a whole, but still well worth doing. Lots of explore! Can be overwhelming but in a good way. Really great room. Worth travelling for. 

Great set dressing and was fun to play with my group! Everyone got involved and is the best room at panic room Harlow

If it was the first half of the game for the whole game, this could be up there with the top games around. Unfortunately the ending fell flat in both enjoyment, mood, and execution. 

I was quite looking forward to this game based on the reviews and for the most part it holds up.  The Carnival setting and themed games in the early part are well done (albeit with a degree of tiredness prevalent in the venue as a whole).  Where it loses points is the final puzzle, the puzzle itself is fine and it's relatively obvious what you have to do but the execution led to a degree of frustration.

I did like this a lot - it's huge and there's a lot to do. Two niggles - the first puzzle, which is VERY easy - the lock was stuck so we lost about five mins and our host should have stepped in. The second is that at times it's far too loud. I'm autistic so have noise sensitivity issues and despite commenting several times to the GM, the sometimes (purposefully) quite stifling music was really overwhelming.