Schlagwort-Archive: a bit different

Pier Pressure: Preston Manor

Brighton, Oct 2019

Despite having been to Brighton any number of times, I was completely unaware of Preston Manor. It seems it’s an Edwardian manor house well preserved as a museum piece, with a relatively unimposing exterior but rather stunning inside, interesting for… (more)

Escape Peterborough: Buried Alive

Peterborough, Sep 2019

If you’ve played a few games at the Escape chain, you might feel you have a good idea of what to expect from the company. Be warned that Buried Alive is very much the exception. It’s a distinctive game built around a specific idea, and your enjoyment… (more)

Access Ecape: Dark Magik

London, Sep 2019

Any review of Access Escape has to start with the most important fact about it: the whole game takes place in complete darkness. Enthusiasts often rail against unnecessary darkness used to make puzzles harder, but this is a completely different beast… (more)

The Brainfall Hotel: Down The Rabbit Hole

Athens, May 2019

Live actors are a major part of all three Brainfall games, but this takes a very different form in Down The Rabbit Hole, which is considered an ‚action‘ game. This means that you’re not interacting with actors simply through dialogue, but running and… (more)

The Panic Room: Revolución Olé

Gravesend, Nov 2018

If you’ve heard anything at all about Revolución Olé, you’ll probably be aware that it’s a highly unusual sort of escape room with a unique game style. Exactly how it works was clearly explained to us twice, first by our host – who even switched from… (more)

Abducted Live: Abducted

Hastings, Sep 2018

I was expecting Abducted to be an unusual escape room, and it was; but it was unusual in a rather different way to what I expected. Note that there are two versions, a normal 60 minute experience and an ‚extreme‘ 90 minute experience, and naturally w… (more)

Exciting Escapes: Spies In Space

Southampton, Jul 2018

Assigning ratings to escape rooms is rarely easy, and it’s much harder when a game is ambitious and inventive in a way that gives it the potential to stand out, but then undermines that potential with the way it’s implemented – it can mean wildly dif… (more)

CTRL ALT ESC: Spacescape

Margate, Jul 2018

CTRL ALT ESC’s second game takes you into space, on a mission to a planet called Dirt. Naturally the mission does not go smoothly, and you need to make an emergency escape from your failing spaceship.

Spacescape is an ambitious game with some intere… (more)

Locked: Kubus

Ghent, Jun 2018

Like Locked’s sister game Labyrint, Kubus is as much art project as escape room. Art is supposed to be challenging, and it’s certainly a challenge to review – what this venue builds is so very unique it can’t really be measured by the criteria I’d ap… (more)

Agent November: Murder Mr. E

London, Jun 2018

Third and last of the relaunched versions of Agent November’s games was Murder Mr. E. For anyone who’s coming to this without having read the previous two reviews already, I need to again clarify up front that I played as part of a launch event, with… (more)