Tag Archives: heist

Deckscape: Heist In Venice

Room-in-a-box, Dec 2018

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

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

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 Peterborough: The Bank Heist

Peterborough, Sep 2019

The Bank Vault is of course a heist game. It’s also designed to be a variable score game, where your success is based on how much money you get out with, not how quickly you finish. Staying past the 60 minute mark is a failure, but the gamemaster pro… (more)

Devon Escape: Professor Enright’s Enigma

Newton Abbot, May 2019

On my last trip to Devon two years ago, there were a handful of rooms available from three companies, all located in Exeter and Plymouth. Much has changed and at time of writing there are 14 venues spread out across the country. This time round we st… (more)

Lock Academy: Le Casse de la Siècle (The Heist of the Century)

Paris, Oct 2018

First of three games I tried at Lock Academy, Heist of the Century was also the first escape room I’ve tried playing in a different language. Due to a complicated series of booking problems that were entirely my fault, I ended up having to find a sub… (more)

Escape Room Preston: Gallery

Preston, Apr 2018

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

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)

Cryptx: The Jewellery Heist

Cambridgeshire, Mar 2018

Located half an hour’s drive outside Cambridge city centre, Cryptx isn’t the easiest location to get to but from their booking calendar seem to manage to attract a steady stream of teams nonetheless. They emphasise that they’re an enthusiast-run oper… (more)

Claustrophobia: Museum of Contemporary Art

Berlin, Nov 2017

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)