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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)

Factoría Escape Room: Golpe perfecto en el jardín de Buda

Valencia, Jan 2025

The distinctive name of this escape room had caught my attention back when it first got a TERPECA award – and of course winning the award was a strong recommendation for it too. For that reason we booked it as the second of two rooms to play on our b… (more)

The X-Door: La Peluquería

Valencia, Jan 2025

Spanish games – at least the top tier ones – have a fondness for cold starts, where the game begins without meeting any staff unless they’re already in character. That’s the case here too, though there was an initial intro with a chance to use the ba… (more)

New UK escape rooms April 2025

Spring is a time for new beginnings and there’s a bumper crop of new UK escape rooms to report, covering all regions of the country and including an unusually high number of entirely new companies. Here’s the full list:

Sneaky Dog Escapes: Operation Spitfire

Southampton, Jan 2025

I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect from Operation Spitfire going in – it’s rare for a room to have no reviews at all on this site, and frankly that’s usually not a good sign. Sneaky Dog focus at least as much on VR games as on their live ones, and… (more)

Knockout Escape Rooms: Dirty Money

Reading, Jan 2025

Latest at Knockout is this game set in a launderette; you might correctly guess from the name that this is in fact a mafia-style theme, which mostly trades the usual smoky back room style setting for the suds and clothes of a dodgy laundrette. Your t… (more)

Puzzle Room Bangkok: Lost Symbol

Bangkok, Dec 2024

This was a rare game that I played solo, since I was passing through Bangkok on my own. The company doesn’t provide an online booking system, and don’t officially support teams smaller than two people, so it took some negotiation over WhatsApp to arr… (more)

Miss Terry: Blood Dragon

Hanoi, Nov 2024

Miss Terry currently has three locations within Hanoi, one of which is in the Old Quarter and therefore significantly more convenient to get to for most visitors. We chose the theme with a Hong Kong triad crime theme.

As appears to be standard for g… (more)

iEscape: The Basement

Hoi An, Nov 2024

I’d thought that all the escape rooms in Hoi An had closed during the pandemic, but we found an exception or perhaps a newer addition. My hopes weren’t high though, because this is a single room being run downstairs in a hostel style hotel, as one of… (more)