by Breakout Manchester (website)
14a Brazennose Street, M2 6LW
2-5 players
60 minutes
Overall rating
based on ratings from 24 users
combined with 2 pro reviews
Your review
Player reviews
Difficult but enjoyable. Fun ending but the last puzzle was very hard.
Stop That Launch!
I was supposed to tackle this as a team of four, but someone dropped out last minute. As it's a five-star room, I went in with low hopes of breaking out.
Story
Save the world by stopping a missile strike.
Puzzles
Hard, with a capital H! Although we cracked some of them quickly, others had us completely stumped. They were army-themed, and a couple of practical tasks were involved to spice things up a bit. One of them stood out as particularly novel to me. Clues weren't coming when we needed them, but even so, we'd have needed many more to get out.
Mise-en-scène
'Enemy territory' was uninspired. As mentioned, the puzzles and props contributed to a military environment, but it was otherwise a basic office.
Final Comments
We were at least four puzzles away from success. Take your best team for this room.
A great room with a lot of numbers! Only has a 26% success rate.. so pick wisely 🤣
This is their hardest game, we liked it slightly less than the others more due to there being a lot of looking for things rather than puzzles, we find that harder. Still enjoyed it though. John was a fabulous host.
Games okay - Last puzzle is just random. Why is it there?
Reviews by escape room review sites
Sabotage is not a particularly showy game - the modern setting translates to a fairly stripped-down theme and mostly straightforward props. But it's a well designed and satisfying room, and some nice touches give it an edge of understated humour that I really enjoyed. And the difficulty is sufficient to give even the more experienced teams plenty to get to grips with.
It does use a quite remarkable number of padlocks, though these are very much on-theme. There are also quite a few promising-loo...
