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London Escaped Ltd: The Prisoner

London, Aug 2018

Whitechapel seems to be the place to be in London this year, at least for escaping, with three companies opening new games in the area in a short space of time. London Escaped have launched with two games, both using Russian-made room designs that al… (more)

Trapp’d: Exordium

Northamptonshire, Aug 2018

Once again you are humanity’s last hope – this time on a mission to Mars to find a mysterious artefact that is our last chance to repair the ravages of runaway global warming. Or something like that, anyway. Trapp’d provide printed cards with verbose… (more)

Trapp’d: Dead On Arrival

Northamptonshire, Aug 2018

I’m not going to mince words here: I hated this game. We played it as two teams of two, and our second group liked it even less. Reviewing escape games is inevitably subjective, but I try as best I can to separate out factors specific to my run-throu… (more)

Trapp’d: 46 Below

Northamptonshire, Aug 2018

It is a policy with Trapp’d to supply all players with blindfolds before they enter a room, so that they don’t see their surroundings before the game starts. With their abandoned mine and American West games they also give all players plastic shoe pr… (more)

Escapologic: Chronos

Leicester, Aug 2018

Having waxed enthusiastic about the big elaborate sets in the other Escapologic Leicester games, I’m going to now declare Chronos my favourite of the three, even though it’s physically the smallest. But it packs a great deal into that space, with som… (more)

Escapologic: Reactorvate

Leicester, Aug 2018

Reactorvate eschews the obvious plot for a game set in a nuclear power station in favour of a more complicated premise: your great uncle was blamed for a catastrophic meltdown, and your aim is to sneak into the abandoned station, find data to clear h… (more)

Escapologic: Operation Magnus

Leicester, Aug 2018

Tempted up to Leicester by a remarkably generous summer discount for returning customers, I finally tried out the first three games at Escapologic’s new branch, starting with Operation Magnus, which places you in a World War 2 bunker trying to foil a… (more)

Break Escape: The Enchanted Forest

Loughborough, Aug 2018

Some game reviews are straightforward to write, others are not; this is one of the tricky ones. But let’s start by saying Enchanted Forest is Break Escape’s fourth and newest (so far) room, and places you in a magical snowbound forest which contains … (more)

Break Escape: Boiling Point

Loughborough, Aug 2018

As might not be instantly clear from the name, Boiling Point is set in a police station. Your task is to retrieve the critical evidence needed to put away each of a gang of ne’er-do-wells; however, since the gang in question are understandably not ke… (more)

Break Escape: Nerve Klinik

Loughborough, Aug 2018

First, a disclaimer: we played a bowdlerised version of Nerve Klinik, due to a teammate’s aversion to jump scares. Since this is a game designed from the ground up to scare its players and keep them nervous of what might happen next, that removed an … (more)