Schlagwort-Archive: heist

Deckscape: Heist In Venice

Room-in-a-box, Dec 2018

Rated 3 out of 5
Heist In Venice follows the normal Deckscape format with a couple of twists. Your mission is to steal a €1 billion Euro poker chip from a casino, and in the tradition of heist movies, you have a team of specialists: here provided by a set of six char… (more)

Escape Reading: Ram Raid

Reading, Feb 2020

Rated 4.5 out of 5
Many venues invest greater amounts of money and tech in each new game they create. I think that’s true of Escape Reading too, but they’ve also shown something rarer and more important: an ever-improving ability to make their games engaging, logical a… (more)

Escape Room Katwijk: Bella Ciao

Katwijk, Jan 2020

Rated 4.5 out of 5
I haven’t seen a single episode of La Casa De Papel, the heist drama which is apparently Netflix’s most successful series in a language other than English, and which Bella Ciao is based on. As a result, there were plenty of references in this game th… (more)

Escape Room Preston: Gallery

Preston, Apr 2018

Rated between 2 and 2.5 out of 5
With four branches in the UK and many more overseas, Escape Room is one of the larger escape game franchises. I’d previously played a few of their games in Estonia, and while passing through Preston tried out their Gallery game. This is an art heist … (more)

Containment: The Vault

Guildford, Apr 2018

Rated between 3 and 3.5 out of 5
The second game we played at Containment was their original and oldest game. As with the previous one, the game is inside a large shipping container. Where the bomb defusal game we’d just played had a theme that obviously fit well with that, The Vaul… (more)

Claustrophobia: Museum of Contemporary Art

Berlin, Nov 2017

Rated between 3 and 4 out of 5
Museum of Contemporary Art is a straightforward heist game, but one that uses its museum setting to build a series of puzzles around modern art pieces, most of which are lightly veiled versions of actual famous pieces. Some of the clues left for you … (more)