Schlagwort-Archive: laboratory

One Way Out: Gas Alert

Oakham, Jul 2019

Newly opened in Oakham, One Way Out’s first game had only been running a couple of weeks when I tried it, earlier than I’d usually visit a new game. While the name Gas Alert might suggest something industrial maybe set in a factory, it is instead set… (more)

MasterClue: Defcon 2

Athens, May 2019

At time of writing MasterClue’s website is in Greek only, which made booking a slightly hairy process reliant on Google Translate – but the game is entirely fine to play in English. Which is only appropriate, since it’s set in a U.S. military base. T… (more)

Doomsday Games: Pathogen

Colchester, Apr 2019

The 60 minute time limit is near universal for escape rooms, with only a handful of longer or shorter games in the U.K. As it happens, every extended length game I’ve played has been at least very good – perhaps because longer games tend to be less p… (more)

Knockout Escape Rooms: Mad Scientist

Reading, Aug 2018

Knockout cheerfully warned us up front that they go for quite minimal backstory with their games. In this case the plot was essentially that you’re in a mad scientist’s laboratory and need to solve puzzles to escape – but delivered in a nicely light-… (more)

Endorphin Games: BlueLab

Sofia, May 2018

Not many escape room briefings ask players whether they have any experience cooking class A drugs, but BlueLab is based on the Breaking Bad television serial, and presents you with an industrial chemical laboratory in which you need to work out how t… (more)

Escape Game Brighton: Return of the Mad Scientist

Brighton, May 2018

Return of the Mad Scientist is a sequel to a game I played way back in the pre-history of 2016. At the time Escape Game Brighton had two games; it has since closed both, and replaced them with similarly named sequels. Although that suggests an ongoin… (more)

Chamber Challenge: The Lab

Brussels, Jan 2018

Squeezing in a short-notice visit to Chamber Challenge during a gap in our schedule, they kindly adjusted their schedule to allow us to play The Lab. The familiar-sounding theme turns out to have an unusual and gently educational premise that explore… (more)

Reykjavik Escape: The Scientist

Reykjavik, Jan 2018

Reykjavik Escape is, at time of writing, the only escape venue in Iceland. Located a little to the east of the main tourist district, they have a set of four rooms with fairly standard themes, and we picked the science-themed one over the prison, kid… (more)

Escape Ipswich: Contagion

Ipswich, Dec 2017

Humanity is once again in peril, this time from an epidemic that’s swept the globe and left your team as the last scientists on Earth. Fortunately there is an antidote hidden somewhere in a laboratory, if you can reach it in time.

The Escape franchi… (more)

Suffolk Food Hall: Vanished – Prof Campbell’s Lab

Ipswich, Dec 2017

Suffolk Food Hall is a rather wonderful food emporium on the southern fringes of Ipswich, with everything from local produce to garden supplies… and also a pair of escape rooms. It’s one of the more surprising venues I’ve seen, but I guess they had… (more)