BubbleAndSqueak

This was such a fun game, with such enthusiastic and friendly hosts! The nostalgia is seriously cranked up, the puzzles were fun and unique, and while it wasn't the most challenging of rooms, we left with massive smiles on our faces. This room is easily in our top 10, and we can't wait to go back to Basel to play their other games!

This was a really fun room! Not the most difficult, but every single puzzle was done in a new way that we hadn't seen before. Some was very tech-based, some was pure code solving. Overall, very fun, and worth a visit if you're in Basel

We really enjoyed this room. It was quite padlock-heavy, but it didn't feel overbearing, and the puzzles to get the padlock codes were incredibly varied. Some very nice logic puzzles in this room, as well as a cool colour-based feature (be wary if you're colour blind, my husband found it a little trickier but not impossible).

Theming: 9.5/10
Puzzles: 9.5/10
GM: 9/10
Value: 9.5/10
Fun: 9/10

Overall: 93%

This is a good game for non-enthusiasts, easy to understand, and not overly complicated. It felt like the old point-and-click style games, with puzzles dotted in between. Some fun puzzles.

This was a really solid game, with well-thought-out puzzles, and an additional side quest to complete if you wanted to. The theming was fantastic, and our GM was fantastic!

Theming: 9.5/10
Puzzles: 9/10
GM: 10/10
Value: 9/10
Fun: 9/10

Overall: 93%

This room was such fun! It kept true to being a proper pub, and our GM (T) was INCREDIBLE!!! T brought it all to life, and I can't recommend T (and the room) enough! The adult humour was done in such a casual way that it encouraged my husband and I to start cracking jokes! The puzzles were fantastic, things were hidden in ingenious ways... We recommend this room!

In addition to this, as it was the final day of our Honeymoon, T let us make our mark in the room itself... See if you can spot us! :)

Theming: 9.5/10
Puzzles: 9/10
GM: 10/10
Value: 9/10
Fun: 9.5/10

Overall: 94%

Really good game, we loved the connection to the senses. Be aware if you struggle with mobility, though, there are stairs and areas where you'll need to crawl. It was one of the cheaper rooms that we found in Amsterdam, but the quality definitely didn't suffer because of it!

Theming: 9/10
Puzzles: 9/10
GM: 9.5/10
Value: 8.5/10
Fun: 9.5/10
Overall: 91%

I'm putting in the same review for this room and for The Vault, as we did them as the double room, Audacious.

We were incredibly disappointed by these rooms. The puzzles were illogical, some requiring logic leaps with no clues. There were red herrings that seemed to only exist for the GM's amusement, and the whole experience felt like the rooms had been made to make the GM feel smart, rather than to provide enjoyment for the team.

Theming: 6/10
Puzzles: 3/10
GM: 6/10
Value: 6/10
Fun: 1/10

Overall: 44%

I'm putting in the same review for this room and for Return To The Rock, as we did them as the double room, Audacious.

We were incredibly disappointed by these rooms. The puzzles were illogical, some requiring logic leaps with no clues. There were red herrings that seemed to only exist for the GM's amusement, and the whole experience felt like the rooms had been made to make the GM feel smart, rather than to provide enjoyment for the team.

Theming: 6/10
Puzzles: 3/10
GM: 6/10
Value: 6/10
Fun: 1/10

Overall: 44%

As this room has a minimum of 3 players, we brought a friend. Unfortunately, the room was fairly empty and pretty basic. There was only one reason to need 3 players, and it could easily have been built to only need 2. The room itself left one of us, and at several times, 2 of us standing around not doing anything

Theming: 5/10
Puzzles: 5/10
GM: 2/10
Value: 6/10
Fun: 2/10

Overall: 4/10

It was a fun room with decent puzzles, but be wary if you have bad knees. It required a lot of sitting on the floor and crouching, which I struggled with, causing us to run over by 2 minutes. They let us finish the room because we were so close. A few pretty cool puzzles, although one was a little janky. As a couple doing this room, the waiting area and initial briefing felt very corporate-focused, but the room didn't.

Theming: 7/10
Puzzles: 8/10
GM: 6/10
Value: 7.5/10
Fun: 7/10

Overall: 7/10

As always, good theming and a fantastic, enthusiastic GM

Theming: 7/10
Puzzles: 8/10
GM: 9/10
Value: 8/10
Fun: 8/10

Overall: 8/10

Really cool theming from the moment we entered, and the GM was in character (and costume). Fun puzzles and good storyline

Theming: 9/10
Puzzles: 8/10
GM: 9/10
Value: 8/10
Fun: 8/10

Overall: 8/10

Very plain room, not much physically there. The puzzles were rather strange, and it didn't seem to flow very well. They also thought we'd booked for a different game, so we had to wait while they prepared the room we'd actually booked.

Theming: 2/10
Puzzles: 3/10
GM: 2/10
Value: 2/10
Fun: 2/10

Overall: 2/10

At the beginning you're split into two cells. Make sure that you have at least one person in each cell who isn't colour blind! We played as a team of 3, two of us are colour blind. This meant that we couldn't complete one of the first puzzles. After asking for assistance due to colour blindness repeatedly for several minutes, we finally got help, when we were told 'You should have told us that you're colour blind!'

After that fiasco, a puzzle ending was broken, leading to us standing around the tiny room with two GMs trying to fix the puzzle (rather than just giving us the key so we could progress). Other puzzles felt like they were missing clues, and some keys didn't work properly (despite being the correct keys)

Theming: 7/10
Puzzles: 4/10
GM: 3/10
Value: 6/10
Fun: 5/10

Overall: 50%

As a team that doesn't like scary rooms, this was incredible. We asked them to turn down the scares, which they happily did, removing the jump scare and turning down the music. There was a crawl space and some really good puzzles.

Theming: 10/10
Puzzles: 9/10
GM: 10/10
Value: 10/10
Fun: 9/10

Overall: 9/10

Our first-ever escape room, and it set a very high bar for all future rooms. Our GM was fantastic, and the scoring system was so cool! There's one feature we haven't seen since in over 50 rooms. Honestly, we can't recommend it enough!

Theming: 10/10
Puzzles: 10/10
GM: 10/10
Value: 10/10
Fun: 10/10

Overall: 10/10

So many cool, well-thought-out puzzles, presented in a wide variety of ways with some really fun mini-game style solutions.

Theming: 9/10
Puzzles: 9/10
GM: 9/10
Value: 9/10
Fun: 9/10

Overall: 9/10