Enigma Rooms Watford: The Chapel

Being older escapologists, there’s a little warning that this involves a level of crawling! That said ,both of the Watford enigma rooms are among our favourite ones that we’ve done (so far). The attention to atmosphere and detail in the sets is great and the hosting is friendly. The Chapel is a spooky tale (albeit not scary) requiring a level of observation that we were sometimes lacking in. But it taught us a lesson for future rooms though and we are grateful.

We were deliberating playing The Chapel after our success on Gold Rush however were a little put off as I'm not a fan of scary games. We thought we may aswell play it whilst we were there as we had travelled to come here in the first place and luckily we were able to adjust the scale of 'scary' before entering the room. The puzzles were much harder in here compared to Gold Rush, but again the themeing and hosting was spot on. A unique clue system is given in this game which did mean a fair bit of going backwards and forwards to receive the clues but it was clever how this system was incorporated into the storyline. I spent most of the game (despite modifying the scare level) being terrified by the jump scare moments which distracted me from focusing on solving the puzzles. Unfortunately we did not successfully complete the game but it was still fun, and again, shout out to the excellent games masters for providing this fantastic experience.

Great room as always! Enigma Watford are making a great name for themselves. As equally fun as their other room. Perfectly themed set design. Nice balance of 1st and 2nd gen ER style. It’s a perfect amount of scary. Creepy enough to make you stop and think but not so scary that you can’t do anything! Look forward to the next room. 

Some lovely unique puzzles that all fit within the theme well. The set design was also outstanding! I look forward to playing more games from this company as they release more.