In the post-Xmas hangover, there are only a few new escape rooms to report in the UK this month. Or maybe they’ll all be announced five minutes after I’ve finished writing this? 🤞

Greater London

🔒 Escape In Time a.k.a. Secret Studio have snuck out a new game under the radar – Emerald Phantom is at the same location as their original Secret Studio room, and you’ll find the option for it during the booking process for that one. Unconfirmed whether there’s any commonality of game space between the two.

🔒 Escape From The Room’s Sutton/Epsom location is now running Mr Majestic’s Mysterious Magic Boxes, a game based around a pair of puzzle boxes (which going by the train theme, may be played in their Enigma Express room?).

🔒 Screamworks’s new game Open House has the interesting setup where you can book it for 60 mins as a fun puzzle challenge, or 90 mins as a horror experience, where the tone changes in the final section.

Southeast England

From last month’s update:
🔒 ClueCapers Limited (Winchester): Treehouse 2: Going Wild!
🔒 Escape Hunt Reading: Eye of the Sun God

Southwest England

From last month’s update:
🔒 Escape Hunt Bournemouth: Journey to Atlantis
🔒 Escape Hunt Cheltenham: Excalibur, Show Me The Honey!

Wales

From last month’s update:
🔒 Rhondda Escape Rooms (Tonypandy): Andy’s Room

West Midlands

🔒 Alderford Escape Islands are back again from mid Feb. Their games for this year are The Frozen Voyage and The Traveller’s Rest, where the former is intended for younger players.

🔒 The Puzzle Room Cannock’s second location opens on the 14th, with four games: Area 51: Alien Invasion, Game Over, Heist at 30,000 feet, and Murder Mystery: Murder at the Station.

Last call for:
❗️ Top Escape Rooms (Worcester): No Place Like Gnome (closes 9th Feb)

East Midlands

🔒 Alice in Leicestershire is a new Wonderland themed room opening at Escape Leicester from the 8th.

Also new, from last month’s update:
🔒 Escape Leicester: Echoes of Madness, Mystic Magic Castle

East of England

🔒 Opening today is Cluetopia’s newest game, Curse of the Lost Temple, available at their Braintree branch. Over in Walton, they’re also due to re-open The Grant Portobello Hotel Heist next week.

🔒 Ware Escape Room’s latest is Locked Inn, where you’re held captive in a pub by an irate landlord.

Also new, from last month’s update:
🔒 Escape Hunt Watford: Eye of the Sun God

Northwest England

From last month’s update:
🔒 Lucardo Manchester: Red-Handed

Yorkshire & the Humber

🔒 Now open at Escapologist in Cleethorpes is Mafia Heist – looks like they’ve been busy, since they’ve also announced a further room under construction.

🔒 At The Escapologist Gateshead (unrelated to Cleethorpes!), they also have a new room, named Temple Raider: An Elemental Quest.

🔒 Grimsby’s Mission Classified can’t get enough of the Wild West – they’ve opened Red Rock Canyon Reloaded, a 90 min follow-up to the original Red Rock Canyon, which also remains available.

Also new, from last month’s update:
🔒 Gamesaints Sheffield: Hands Tied, Magic Mission, Mastermind, Vaccine Vault – note that at present these appear to be essentially the same games that were previously available here under Escape Sheffield, though the venue says they plan to update them in the future.

Northeast England

From last month’s update:
🔒 The Escapologist Gateshead (Newcastle upon Tyne): The Big Top: The Curious Case of the Missing Clown

Scotland

From last month’s update:
🔒 In Time (Ayr): Trapped In Time