Exciting Escapes Croydon: Change The Record

It’s a challenging room, but it’s nothing insurmountable and instead, incredibly satisfying when you finally crack the codes and figure out what to do. More than anything I just enjoyed being in the physical space. Bopping along to the 90s hits we had a great rhythm in this room and a very fun interaction with our Games Master afterwards. So much so, we immediately booked another room to play directly after.

If a record shop sounds like an odd setting for an escape game, never fear: according to the game premise, the proprietor is a secret agent from the far side of the Iron Curtain, and your job is to ferret out and thwart his nefarious plans.

Something unusual about Exciting Escapes as a venue was that, although all my team liked all three of their rooms, we were very split on which we liked best. Each is designed around a particular decade, and has a different feel to it: the 50s game had a subt...