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New UK escape rooms June 2025

Lots going on in the early summer heat – there are quite a few new escape rooms to duck into if you want to escape the sunshine, including several new companies and some new games from some big names. Here’s the full list for June: Greater London 🔒 RADA – that’s the Royal Academy of… Read More »

Unreal Vilapicina: The Wonders of Agrabah

Barcelona, Jan 2025

Unreal have a lot of different branches in and around Barcelona, most with only one or two rooms, and sometimes with alternate names suggesting they started off as independents. I suspect that may be why there’s quite a bit of variation in design sty… (more)

Escape Barcelona: KONG Protocol

Barcelona, Jan 2025

I went into KONG with high expectations – not only is it in the current TERPECA top 10 (!) but the most recent game before it from Escape Barcelona, Cybercity 2049, remains among my personal all time favourites. Plus there’s the name – does “KONG” re… (more)

Open Mind: 11S

Barcelona, Jan 2025

Escape rooms can be educational or raise social awareness; they don’t have to be just for pure entertainment. There are some topics that are definitely inappropriate as escape room themes, and there are some that are reasonable if handled with care a… (more)

New UK escape rooms May 2025

Short but sweet – in at least one case literally – here’s the list of new UK escape rooms for May.

Unreal Sabadell: Nightshift

Barcelona, Jan 2025

I wouldn’t describe myself as a fan of horror escape rooms, particularly. Given a choice of themes at a venue I’ll usually pick a non-horror one, and I’m more likely to enjoy a top horror game despite the scares than because of them; sometimes I find… (more)

Escapem: Bajo Zero

Barcelona, Jan 2025

Bajo Zero was a game that I thought illustrated just how far standards have risen in escape rooms over the last decade. It’s not far off ten years old, and when it opened it must have been quite a standout. In 2025 it’s still a fun game with lots to … (more)

The City Escape Room: La Taberna

Barcelona, Jan 2025

One of the three highest ranked rooms in Europe on the TERPECA list, created by a collaboration between two Spanish companies who each have their own record of building award-winning games, La Taberna is a giant in a city full of remarkable rooms. Ev… (more)

Outline Escape Room: Outline

Barcelona, Jan 2025

Outline is superlative in a number of ways. Including for the most extravagant use of smoke – I didn’t realise a smoke machine was capable of creating such a fog that you can’t even see your own outstretched hands. The hosts did say at the end that t… (more)

Golden Pop: Jurásico

Barcelona, Jan 2025

As a rule of thumb, dinosaur themes are good silly fun, and involve plenty of suspension of disbelief. After all, it’s a pretty tall order to convince a group of players that they’re not just in some room solving puzzles, but exploring a tropical rai… (more)