Break Escape Loughborough: Outlaws

Our first room at Break Escape with more booked in the same weekend.

We enjoyed this room, took me to the end to realise there were no padlocks! Good theming , relevant puzzles and fab hosting.

First time in a western themed room and it was a goody! Theming was superb as we have come to expect from Break Escape with a wide variety of puzzles, all suiting the theme perfectly. Lots of hands on puzzles which got the my equally elderly partner very excited!

Another high expectation with Break Escape is the great hosting we have had on previous visits and our GM Ben did not let us down at all, a great sense of humour and  a distinct knack for knowing when to give us a nudge and when to leave us alone.

Having already visited the Nottingham branch we went to Loughborough purely to do their rooms and were very glad we made the trip!

Excellent theming with some puzzles that used props in creative ways.

I wouldn’t take my star rating for Outlaws too seriously, as we just didn’t quite click with this game personally. A lot of the time we found ourselves solving things without really understanding what we were doing, which took away from the overall experience a bit. The room itself is also starting to look a little tired in places and could do with a bit of TLC to bring it back to its best.

There’s one particular element where a bit more force is needed to remove something, and we lost quite a bit of time not doing that mainly because we were being cautious and didn’t want to break anything. That did frustrate us slightly. It would’ve been helpful if, during the briefing, we’d been told that some parts might need a firmer hand. That said, I can understand the hesitation in saying that, as it could lead to someone applying force to something they weren’t supposed to and accidentally damaging it.