Deadlocked Escape Rooms Reading: The Reading Witch

Great room, not scared easily but definitely does give you the creeps! Original puzzles and techy which is refreshing, thoroughly enjoyed myself. Thanks guys!

I highly recommend this game to horror fans!

I won't put any spoilers I'll just say the game starts before you've even entered the building, the team have put so much thought into this and it shows! A shame I can't put 10 stars

Not for the faint hearted! You will scream

I was really apprehensive in booking this room as I'm not the best with jump scares, but I'm very glad that we did. The onboarding in the world that Deadlocked have created is very theatrical and sort of funny (at least to begin with!). The puzzles are very much at the forefront of the game with plenty to do throughout the 120 minute experience. Each puzzle was beautifully crafted and made sense within the creepy setting that they've made. Was it scary? Absolutely. I screamed and ran my way around the space at least a few times, but I knew I was safe when solving which made the experience much better. Highly highly recommended!

We’ll be hard pushed to find an escape room as well thought out and as immersive as this. Our hosts Charlie and James were marvellous and really brought the story to life. It was our first horror escape room and it was going to be a make or break scenario and it definitely secured its spot as our favourite game. With lots of nooks and crannies there was plenty to keep us busy and all puzzles were well thought out and interesting. I truly recommend this to everyone. 

I don't remember much from this room as my team mates did most of the puzzles whilst I stood in a corner absolutely terrified. However I do remember some of the puzzles being very high tech and original

We did this as we’ve done so many escape rooms but felt we were missing the UK’s top room due to our fear of horror. I don’t watch horror movies as I get too scared and my room partner seemed confident we would be fine. We did the time machine in the week before and also contacted the owners who gave me some spoilers on request to help me feel comfortable with the horror - my room partner misjudged their ability as he was terrified throughout. I was doing quite well but the drama ramps up and with a few more surprises I was truly terrified by the end . The scares and acting are really good, surprising and terrifying - the main scares mid puzzle are more jumps but between puzzles there is some genuine terrifying stuff.

As wimps we were buzzing to compete it but certainty the scares mean we couldn’t puzzle as hard as usual.

The hosts were fab and adapted the room for our fear and for us as a two. There were a couple of minor issues but they sought to solve this really well.

We were buzzing from the room and it’s so cool we highly recommend it but equally horror won’t be my genre going forward to I’m retiring from horror rooms on a huge high. If you’re scared do speak to them In advance. 

We booked this room as we had heard it was the best in the UK but didn't do as much research about it as we probably should because none of our team are particularly into the horror genre of games. We explained that to the host and he did a really good job of toning it down a little for us which made it okay for a bunch of wusses to play. The game was good fun and visually the set was great, though big enough that it was quite hard to remember what we had and hadn't used towards the end. Only complaint was that at the beginning of the game they were a bit heavy handed with the clues. It felt like we were being hurried along and not given time to solve the first few puzzles ourselves even though we finished 30 mins early overall so can't have been horribly behind on time.

I generally love a Deadlocked game as they always embrace the weird and wonderful, but I was torn about this game because I really do NOT enjoy horror games. I'm very glad I played it though (thank you to my team for the moral support), because it is an incredible experience. 

Deadlocked made great use of their premises, and they have come such a long way in terms of production value. The puzzles were great and worked very well, even as part of a seasoned team there was a good amount of challenge.

The pacing between puzzles and cinematics was effective and left time to focus on solving stuff while still keeping people on their toes. The game is really cleverly made in terms of layout and puzzle design, and beautifully and elaborately decorated - you can see how much time, thought and love has gone into it in every prop and set dressing bit. It's a two-hour immersive experience with two actors, and an absolute asset in the UK landscape that deserves every bit of appreciation.

Disclaimer: Be ready and able to crawl through narrow spaces.

Absolutely fantastic room and most definitely worth a visit. My group are not the bravest when it comes to horror, so we found parts quite scary, but I think it's a good sign of the fact the room is immersive that we found it scary! Really original puzzles that required thinking about and were good fun to complete.