Escape Hunt Leeds: Excalibur

Here we have a typical Escape Hunt experience gone wrong. During the briefing, the games master was overly enthusiastic, even revealing the number of rooms in the game, which immediately took away any element of surprise.

The game had only been running for four weeks when we played, but props and puzzles were already broken. One puzzle made no sense at all, and the games master wasn’t sure how it worked either. They overrode multiple elements of the game, which impacted the flow. It was clear the games master needed more training, as many of the clues were incorrect—saying one thing but meaning another.

To make matters worse, one of the puzzles was just a copy-paste job from their western-themed game. It’s a shame because the first half of the game started off promising, but it quickly went downhill from there. Overall, a frustrating and poorly executed experience.