Schlagwort-Archive: western

Escape Hunt: Escape The Wild West

Oxford, Feb 2019

Picking a game for the afternoon slot at Escape Hunt’s Oxford branch was a choice between pirates and cowboys, and we chose the latter. Wild West casts you as lucky but imperilled miners: having discovered a rich seam of gold in a remote and dusty fr… (more)

Unlock!: Tombstone Express

Room-in-a-box, Jul 2018

It is very much to Unlock!’s credit that they keep experimenting with their format. Having established a game system that works, they could have easily settled into churning out identikit games. Instead, each new release seems to push the format in a… (more)

Breakout Liverpool: Wanted: Indians

Liverpool, Sep 2018

Breakout’s Wanted game is highly unusual in that it’s actually two entirely different games set in the same physical space. There is some separation, and our gamemaster instructed us that everything beyond a particular barrier was irrelevant. To avoi… (more)

Trapp’d: The Outlaws of Red Rock

Peterborough, Feb 2018

The second game at the Peterborough branch of Trapp’d is their Western game, though since you start locked up and need to secure a gemstone before escaping, it has prison and heist elements thrown into the mix as well.

At their Northampton branch, I… (more)