Tag Archives: a bit different

Rustic Riddles: Pan’s Problem

Norfolk, Jul 2017

Another weekend, and a chance to sample a new type of escape room experience. This time it was the turn of Rustic Riddles, which describes itself as “an outdoor escape game for the creative thinker and the curious”.

Set at the end of a fairly anonym… (more)

Make Your Escape: The Signal

Derby, Jul 2017

Second up, was the venue’s original game “The Signal”. Set back from the first game with its own separate reception and briefing space, the backstory around this game is again based on a local legend.

The blurb says:

“Following reports of strange … (more)

Secrets Beneath: Outbreak

Portsmouth, Jun 2017

Outbreak is not a normal escape room. It is a hybrid blend of escape room with immersive scare attraction, and that makes it difficult for me to rate in the normal way because what it’s aiming for is significantly different.

The format consists of a… (more)

Puzzlair: The Prison Van

Bristol, Jun 2017

Puzzlair is split across two venues, and strictly speaking Prison Van isn’t in either of them – it’s played in an actual prison van parked outside their Barton Road. If that sounds cramped – well, it’s a pretty big van, and there were only three of u… (more)

The Panic Room: Million Dollar Date Night

Gravesend, May 2017

Your glamorous host greets you for the game show of your life – Million Dollar Date Night! The two of you are in a small room where one thing is clear from the start – there’s little by way of serious theming, no story, but an enormous number of puzz… (more)

Escape Games London: Escape The Theatre

London, May 2017

Well, I can’t say I wasn’t warned. As important context for this review, when booking it I was aware it was lowest ranked of all currently open London games at The Logic Escapes Me, so instead of getting a … (more)

Handmade Mysteries: Poppa Plock’s Wonky Workshop

London, Apr 2017

During our introduction from Wynne, a mechanical toy / human, he asked us „Who’d pay real money to get locked in a room, just to get out of it again? With strangers!“. He has a point. I’d suggest he was a wind-up merchant, but he was, quite literally… (more)

Namco Funscape: 765

London, Feb 2017

Having just played one mini-escape from Escapemobile, and being in the right area, we decided to try another mini-escape: the 12¾ minute escape room at Namco Funscape on the Southbank.

Interested players should note that they don’t take bookings – y… (more)

Escapemobile: Houdini’s Last Trick

Mobile, Feb 2017

Houdini’s Last Trick is an escape room in a van, which at time of writing is part of the Waterloo Vault festival; and is a 25 minute mini-escape not a full hour. (The site stated 20 minutes, but the operator told us 25, so they may have extended the … (more)

AIEscape: Kill M.A.D.

London, Jan 2017

Kill M.A.D. is a psychological thriller set in a hospital. It is one of those gems of a room where absolutely everything ties in with the story and theme, down to the smallest detail. It is deliberately and unapologetically linear, which usually isn’… (more)