Escape Hunt Reading: A Dalek Awakens

The majority of the puzzles were broken, all too high tech and they just didn’t work and were easy to figure out, not very clever.The Dalek was cool but once you’ve seen it the novelty wears off. 

Just so, so terrible. I wish I'd carefully read all the other reviews before playing. Several puzzles were broken but even if they hadn't been, the room is mostly guesswork and not actual puzzles. Huge disappointment and waste of time. 

Room is designed as a single player set up due to the way the puzzles complete.  The puzzles themselves aren't puzzles, they are random objects and images with no logical way to solve as there is no linkage.  Reliant on the game master.  Needs a rethink.  

Firstly, I’m not a Dr Who fan, but I LOVED the theatrics of this game. That was all I could really love about it. There wasn’t some nice moments, but ALOT of puzzles just didn’t work. This caused a lot of wasted time for us and ended up in us failing. 

I guess with games this hi-tech, things can go wrong more often, and in our case, it clearly did. 

I don’t usually complain, but on this occasion I did. They offered us a free game as way of apology which we accepted (we played their pirate game with this on same day). 

I think, if everything worked, I’d have probably really enjoyed this “game”. It’s still an escaperoom, but more of an immersive set-piece style experience. In full working order, this is an absolute MUST for families with younger players as it is really exciting theatrically.