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EO Escape Rooms: Castaway

Sudbury, Jul 2024

Some themes are easier to create than others; an outdoor setting is much more of a challenge to build convincingly than, say, an office. A desert island is particularly difficult – but Castaway absolutely smashes it. This room delighted me from the m… (more)

Quest House: Alice

Rome, Jul 2024

After two months playing escape rooms in places where the industry is not so developed, walking into the start of this game was a true pleasure – and I suspect it’ll have a similar effect on all but the most jaded. This Alice in Wonderland adaptation… (more)

Yerevan Quest: Disappearance of Neo

Yerevan, Jul 2024

I looked at the name of this game and assumed it was a story inspired by the Matrix… but no, as we discovered on arrival, the premise is actually that there’s a missing child named Neo, and you’re investigating his bedroom to try to solve the mystery… (more)

Quest Project Isolation: Wednesday

Yerevan, Jul 2024

There were several rooms available at Quest Project Isolation; we ruled out the horror games then chose Wednesday because it seemed to be their newest, and was listed as their most challenging. The theme is the Addams Family, following the recent mov… (more)

New UK escape rooms October 2024

Happy Halloween! 🎃 This month’s bumper round up of new escape rooms includes a few monsters that enthusiasts have been eagerly awaiting – and the trickle of Christmas rooms is starting to turn into a flood.

TTE Rooms: The Golden House

Tbilisi, Jun 2024

Tbilisi used to have more escape companies, but the pandemic took a toll, and at time of writing I believe there are only two available. TTE Rooms is the closer one to the centre, and has just the one room, the name of which I only discovered after w… (more)

Enigmarium Ljubljana: Circus – The Mysterious Case of the Missing Elephant

Ljubljana, Sep 2022

Enigmarium is by some way Slovenia’s largest escape room company, with close to half the country’s venues operating under the group’s umbrella. Circus is the newest game at the Ljubljana branch, and the website description promises much: the video su… (more)

Portal Games: Magic Lamp

Baku, Jun 2024

This was the latest in a series of rooms I tried at random in countries not normally known for escape rooms. Baku does have several companies, but Portal Games is comfortably the largest, with around a dozen different locations, and over thirty games… (more)

Quest Zone: Laboratory

Almaty, Jun 2024

Most of Almaty’s escape venues appeared to be either horror houses or no longer operating. Quest Zone was the only exception I managed to find, and they even seemed to be happy to run a game in English. For once, the room was more than theoretically … (more)

Cinescape: Dr Kiefern’s Basement

Online, May 2024

After a gap of more than two years, I found myself playing an avatar game again. While the pandemic lockdowns are thankfully a thing of the past, extreme flooding in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul left some of the local venues closed down i… (more)