Escape Reading: Age of Magic

We loved this room! It was pretty and gentle and beautifully decorated. Everything flowed really nicely from one puzzle to the next and there were some good magical effects. The puzzle were a good mix and everything was quite hands on which we like in a puzzle. It was quite straightforward and we finished in 43 minutes having done all the extra puzzles and needing no clues. 

Almost as good as the room was the host. He was so passionate about escape rooms and gave us some great, personal recommendations of other rooms to play in the local area. When we mentioned we have gone abroad to play some of the Terpeca list he gave us another set of recommendations around Europe as well! Really helpful and friendly 

This was one of the best rooms we've been to recently!

The hosting was fab, shoutout to Tom, who set the feel for the room from the get-go. Once we entered the room, you could immediately tell there was so much thought and creativity in the design; we all felt so immersed from start to finish. 

There was a good variety of puzzles, meaning we could split up into smaller teams, or work all together, whatever was more fitting for the puzzles we came across. We were told afterwards that they can remove puzzles for more inexperienced teams, so it's a great option for those of varying experience. 

Overall, we'd highly recommend this to anyone looking to do an Escape room with great room design and a magical feel. We couldn't stop talking about it for the rest of the day!

Our  Seventh escape room and one we decided to try based on a lot of good reviews and feedback from others.

We were 15 minutes early and met by our host Owen who asked if we wanted to get cracking so we said yes and made a start. After a brief intro we entered the cave and the story started to play out, the scenery and aesthetics of the rooms were superb and really felt like we were in a cave as well as the other rooms looking great and fitting in with the story.

The puzzles had a good amount of variety to them and allowed some of them to be soloed with some requiring more teamwork and communication than others, overall we felt that there was a very good mix of puzzles, some skill some logical and one or two mental ones. The puzzles though were not overly difficult and fairly easy to solve but fun nonetheless.

There are very few negatives we can think of, the main one being that the story kind of gets lost and there is no reminder or additions to the story it is told at the start and that’s it. 

Asides from that it’s hard to knock the game and the overall feeling is that it is very enjoyable and certainly family friendly, great if you love magic, potions and spells.

We had a great time and will be back to try other games here! 

This room advertises as for 3 or more and I’m not sure if they adjust it when it’s just 2 but it was very enjoyable as 2 and they were very accommodating to our last minute booking.  

It’s very immersive and you quickly get into the zone. There are also some surprise rooms. Puzzles are logical and we could solve them with only a couple of prompts throughout the game.  

The room was rather warm on a hot summers day so worth bearing in mind! It is also very dark initially if I were the games master I’d give some sort of additional light as they are clear you cannot touch your phone and as we are not young anymore our eyes actually struggled with some puzzles in the dark. 

I've wanted to play this for a while and had been recommended it by a few people...it did not disappoint! A truly magical and immersive game with some clever and unique puzzles, I had a lot of fun playing this one. The attentions to detail and the logic behind some of the puzzles show a lot of time has been out into the games build. There were a couple of instances where we solved things with a bit of fluke but also need a couple of hints in the correct direction for some of the puzzles. We also solved a bonus puzzle which added to the magical feel of this room. Without giving too much away, there are lots of interactive parts, special effects and some wow moments. I would definitely recommend playing this room. I've done a couple of wizard/magic themed rooms now and this is up there with one of my favourites (and bare in mind I've done around 70 rooms). Also, I liked that it wasn't just another remake of a Harry Potter kind of game. It was more magic, not wizard school. Thank you to Tabby, our games master, who was friendly and chatty before and after the game and got a great group shot of us on completion of the game. It always helps when you have an enthusiastic GM who is passionate about the game and their role.