Schlagwort-Archive: prison

The Riddle Within: Flight 338

London, Feb 2020

The Riddle Within announced their debut game with plenty of fanfare: an escape room on an actual plane. Space in London is hard to come by, but their location in North Greenwich has not only a yard big enough for an airplane but an entire ex-n… (more)

Pandora Experience: Alcatraz

Bali, Nov 2019

If you find yourself in Bali, Indonesia, I recommend a brief respite from the sun, sea and cocktails at the Pandora Experience in Kuta. Having 25 games across 9 locations in Indonesia, the majority of games at Pandora Experience are 120 minutes, with… (more)

Escape Boats: Convicts

Dublin, Oct 2019

I need to start this review with one very large caveat. Convicts is designed as a versus game for 4-10 players, where one half of the group competes against the other. Each half plays a similar but different sequence to the other, sometimes with some… (more)

Clue Cracker: Jailbreak

Tunbridge Wells, Aug 2019

Back in 2016, before there were any permanent escape room venues in Margate, Clue Cracker ran a six week pop up game there named Jailbreak. Three years on, the same company are back with a revamped version of that game, now at a permanent location in… (more)

Lucardo: The Prison

Manchester, Jun 2019

Prison is one of the timeless escape room themes. It’s been done so many times in many different styles that it’s very difficult to build a prison game that feels original, doubly so because there’s a very limited range of items you can plausibly put… (more)

Clue HQ Birmingham: Cell Block C

Birmingham, Mar 2019

As one of Clue HQ’s older games, Cell Block C is available at over half a dozen locations around the country, and I had not rushed to try it on the assumption that its age meant it would be one of the company’s less interesting offerings. But it neat… (more)

Pressure Point: The Accused

Ashford, Sep 2018

As with so many prison escape games, you have been accused of a crime you didn’t commit… but in this game your goal is to gather the evidence that incriminates you and find a way to destroy it, a twist that made me wonder whether we were as innocen… (more)

Knockout Escape Rooms: Prison Break

Reading, Aug 2018

Prison Break was Knockout’s easiest game and their best-decorated. A prison setting often means cramped cells, usually with a split team start, but they’ve instead used a much larger space here, which combines prison bars with a more open layout. The… (more)

John Doe: The Prison of Blue Castle

Lille, Jun 2018

John Doe’s company name comes from their overarching story device, which is that they’re a secret agency whose entire agent roster has recently been compromised; since their professional agents have all been outed, they’re reliant on you, promising m… (more)

Chelmsford Escape Rooms: The Governor

Chelmsford, Jun 2018

The premise of The Governor is that you’re a group of ghost hunters imprisoned in an abandoned prison by an ex-prisoner – thereby managing to combine no fewer than three of the classic escape room themes in an unexpected fusion of haunted house, pris… (more)