Gatwick Escape Rooms: The Governor

By | February 28, 2020

by Gatwick Escape Rooms (website)

117 Victoria Road, RH6 7YS

Horley

2-10 players

Languages: EN

60 minutes

You and your team of paranormal investigators are exploring the remains of HM Greenslade Prison when you are captured, blindfolded and handcuffed. When you remove your blindfolds you find yourselves locked in a cell. You have one hour to escape. Will you make it out before the Governor claims you as one of his own?
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based on ratings from 18 users
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Ratchel experienced rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Logan rated this:Rated between 2 and 2 out of 5
Team size: 4 Outcome: Failed 🙁
illogicalbroken techpoor hosting👻scary

We got to the last puzzle with a good amount of time left, but couldn't figure it out and thus failed.

For our group, we didn't click with this room at all - especially the second half felt very illogical. We struggled with broken tech (flashlight didn't work, two puzzles didn't trigger the needed outcome) and our GM seemed bored, disengaged, didn't notice when we finished puzzles and at some points it felt like they were just laughing at us.

Our main issue with the room is that there's often only one puzzles to solve, leaving little to do for the entire group other than stand in front of that one puzzle. 

We didn't find it scary, probably because we were mostly annoyed.

Anonymous rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
KazKew rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: July 2022 Team size: 3 Outcome: Failed 🙁
story-drivenintensequite difficult👻scary

Fun and quite scary. Lots of puzzles that were on the trickier side. Very enjoyable!

benny1664 experienced rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 19 Apr 2022 Team size: 3 Time taken: 53 Outcome: Successful escape!
story-driven

I liked this game and it seemed to flow well.  Its a bit creepy so not one for small children or those easily frightened!  The puzzle all seemed to work well and it was a lot to do in 60mins so it definitely filled the time.  I don't feel we struggled on anything really and didnt have much time left at all.  Good solid game, nothing ground breaking but still a good one to play and I liked the set/theming.

Simon (The Overthinkers) expert rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 4 Jul 2021 Team size: 2 Time taken: 44:01 Outcome: Successful escape!
spbc expert rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 31 May 2021 Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!
funnygreat hosting
🦡cipherdelic virtuoso rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Played: May 2022
🤘The Pick of Destiny expert rated this:Rated between 2 and 2 out of 5
Team size: 3
illogicalplainboring
jakea256 expert rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5

Some great use of space within this room and puzzles with brilliant aha moments. The locks were in need of TLC as many were stiff even with the right code and the ending wasn’t great (but I believe this was because something was broken). 

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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, prison break and homicidal maniac. That blend allowed the tone to range from sly humour to some genuine creepiness without ever feeling incongruous.

I found both the build and the atmospherics impressive. A complex layout makes it a larger and much more...

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