EO Escape Rooms: Scary Tale

By | April 24, 2021

by EO Escape Rooms (website)

Unit 1, Drury Drive, CO10 1WH

Sudbury

2-6 players

Languages: EN

60-70 mins

Someone or something is compelling you to go into the woods. It is dark, there are some strange noises and you are frightened.

The grim tales you were told as a child are playing on your mind but it will be ok if you all stick together… wont it?

​Will you escape the woods to tell your own tale?

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Rated between 4 and 5 out of 5

based on ratings from 56 users
combined with 2 pro reviews

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Alex Curtis rated this:Rated between 5 and 5 out of 5
Played: 31 Oct 2026 Team size: 6 Time taken: 45-50 mins Outcome: Successful escape!
great hostingintensemagicalquite difficult👻scary

Vvery fun escape room, was scary and lots to figure out Aswell as twist and turns within the game. Some very fun puzzles that i havent ever sone and Ben our game master was brilliant, he was bubbly and explained everything perfectly. He also made sure that any small niggles that we caused were sorted out without giving any clues!!

Overall brilliant experience 

GC_TheOtherOne rated this:Rated between 5 and 5 out of 5
Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!
funnycleverimmersive

Very fun escape room, great theming and room design. Lots of puzzles to keep our team busy!

GCTheScribe expert rated this:Rated between 5 and 5 out of 5
Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivestory-drivengreat hosting😨creepy

Fantastic escape room. Packed full of unique puzzles and excellent theming. 

Krista Goalby rated this:Rated between 5 and 5 out of 5
Played: 12 Apr 2026 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
originalcleverintensequite difficult😨creepy

Any room where I get to put my other half ‘in danger’ is always a win.

Great theming. The most intense of the three rooms we played in one day at EO. There’s a lot to do in this room but once we got into a flow it was very satisfying.

Love the puzzles. Some types I’ve not seen before that were great. And also really liked the way that it encourages you to work together.

Sam was a great host. We had a lot of fun!

Emma N experienced rated this:Rated between 4.5 and 4.5 out of 5
Played: 11 Apr 2026 Team size: 3 Time taken: 45:07 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivestory-drivengreat hosting😨creepy

I put off doing this room as wasn’t sure how I would be in a scary room. But I should have trusted the fab team at EO to put a wonderful room together that was the right mixture of puzzles, story and a little bit of a jump but nothing that worried me! I was so immersed in the story and the puzzles and how clever the room was.  We clicked with the puzzles and came out full of smiles! 

ZealotPete rated this:Rated between 5 and 5 out of 5
Played: 3 Jan 2026 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
cleverstory-drivenintense😨creepy

Great fun. Very atmospheric and a few surprise jump scares, really well put together room. 

Josmeec rated this:Rated between 5 and 5 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
cleverstory-drivengreat hostingquite difficult😨creepy

Great room with some hidden surprises

Littlemisslisaj rated this:Rated between 5 and 5 out of 5
Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!
originalintenseepic😨creepy

Great set. Clever puzzles. So much fun. Always keeping us guessing. Some crawling involved and a jump scare! So much fun. Loved it

freddiemo1 rated this:Rated between 5 and 5 out of 5
Played: 16 Aug 2025 Team size: 4 Time taken: 1 hour and 3 minutes Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivestory-drivenintensequite difficult😨creepy

We all really enjoyed Scary Tale! As we’re all still escape room noobs we had a bit of a slow start but with the help of a few clues we started to find our rhythm and managed to escape! It was a great experience and EO is a great place to go if you’re new to escape rooms like us or even the seasoned veterans. All the hosts are extremely friendly and they really take time to get to know you and it puts you at ease immediately. Would 110% recommend scary tale and can’t wait to try out the other rooms  that EO has to offer! 

james2891 experienced rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
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Reviews by escape room review sites

The name of this room should make clear that it’s based on the darker sort of fairy tale, where witches lock up children, where Red Riding Hood might not be saved from the wolf, and where happy endings are not guaranteed… but Scary Tale does not in fact set out to be all that scary. It’s dimly lit and perhaps creepy in places, but unless you’re particularly nervous, at most it might make you jump once or twice.
As ever, EO makes sure all players have a decent torch, so the darkness wasn’t parti...
The thing that makes the games at EO Escape Rooms so great, Scary Tale included, is simply that they’ve done the basics right. This game is everything an escape room should be: cool set, a narrative that ties the set and the puzzles together, and loads of solid content. When you combine those things you get a game that is just, simply, a joy to play.

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