Schlagwort-Archive: fantasy

Escape Lincoln: The Magic Emporium

Lincoln, Nov 2019

As the number of venues and games in the now-huge Escape franchise increases, they now sometimes have more than one game design using a similar theme, so for clarification The Magic Emporium is an entirely different game to the Witchcraft and Wizardr… (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)

Lucardo Rawtenstall: University of Magic: Dragon’s Heart

Rawtenstall, May 2019

Magic School has proved wildly popular as an escape room theme, and Lucardo have one such game in each of their two branches. Instead of taking the easy route of duplicating a single game, these are two completely distinct games. (I guess it would ma… (more)

London Escaped Ltd: Wizards Cup

London, Apr 2019

‚Magic School‘ has become one of the most popular and widespread escape room themes, with varying levels of discretion about their references to the Harry Potter franchise. London Escaped have doubled down on this by opening two different games of th… (more)

London Escaped Ltd: White Walker

London, Apr 2019

Having had some mixed experiences with London Escaped previously, I returned with some trepidation to try their most recent three games. White Walker is a curious offering: if you’ve visited the venue since the game’s installation you can’t have fail… (more)

London Escaped Ltd: School of Magic

London, Dec 2018

Both of London Escaped’s first two rooms struck me as promising and enjoyable game designs, being operated in a way that didn’t bring out their full potential. School of Magic is similar, except that the underlying quality of the game appears to be s… (more)

The Panic Room: Wizard of Oz

Gravesend, Nov 2018

With so many rooms based on classic stories ranging from Alice In Wonderland to Sherlock and Dracula it’s perhaps surprising that there aren’t more escape rooms themed for The Wizard of Oz; aside from one play at home game, this is the first I’ve see… (more)

Maze Rooms: Magic Kingdom

Los Angeles, Nov 2018

Maze Room’s Magic Kingdom is a fantasy adventure where you must brew an elixir to heal the Heart of the Forest, with the aid of a variety of magical creatures. You could describe the setting as a distant cousin of Narnia with visuals from a children’… (more)

Unlock!: The Adventurers Of Oz

Room-in-a-box, Jul 2018

The Unlock! series of escape games is now up to nine games, with another three about to be released, plus various mini demo games. In Europe the main games are sold as boxed sets of three, and in each such set I’ve found the third game in the box to … (more)

Break Escape: The Enchanted Forest

Loughborough, Aug 2018

Some game reviews are straightforward to write, others are not; this is one of the tricky ones. But let’s start by saying Enchanted Forest is Break Escape’s fourth and newest (so far) room, and places you in a magical snowbound forest which contains … (more)