SHOCK: La Santa

With just one day in Madrid to fit in escape rooms, La Santa was top of the list; since it has a minimum team size of three, we were only able to play it at all because the prospect of it tempted our third team member into booking a weekend city break to join us.

This is a supernatural horror theme full of religious imagery, which appears to take inspiration from the movie The Nun. You are emissaries sent from the Vatican to deal with reports of demon possession at the abbey. As with many Span...

I had been eagerly awaiting this game since it was announced long time ago. I even hoped to play it in our last trip to Madrid in January 2020, but it was not open back then. Expectations were high and the comments heard about it were promising.

Sometimes horror rooms tend to repeat themselves and for us it was not the first time in our escape career facing an evil nun. It is actually a topic repeatedly found in Spain and Greece, which is not surprising given that religion is much more present in these countries compared to, for instance, the Netherlands. In any case, I am happy to say, that this was not just one more room with this topic, but rather a room that clearly stands out and positions itself among the top of its kind.

Zum Glück war ich ahnungslos unterwegs denn hätte ich vorher gewusst, dass der Scare-Faktor bei 8/10 liegt, hätte ich vermutlich sehr spontan beschlossen, dass ich heute doch lieber zuschaue. Mein Motto war aber „Mitgeflogen mitgefangen und mitgeschrien.“

Es war absolut die richtige Entscheidung,denn trotz Daueranspannung und vieler Momente, in denen mein Herz ernsthaft über Kündigung nachgedacht hat, wollte ich keinen einzigen Moment abbrechen. Diese Mischung aus Angst und Spaß ist wirklich absurd gut gemacht.