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The 100 best escape rooms in the UK 2023

At the end of every year I take a snapshot of which escape rooms are currently in the top 100 on the site rankings, to celebrate the games that collectively you rated most highly. The rankings on Escape the Review are calculated based on thousands of reviews from players of all levels of experience, combined… Read More »

New UK escape rooms December 2023

Happy Christmas! Here’s a quick list of the new UK games that have opened in December. You have seven hours left to escape 2023 – on your marks, go! Greater London From last month’s update:🎄 Chronos One Escape Rooms (Eltham): The Secret Christmas Workshop🎄 clueQuest (Central London): Plan52: Snow Way Out South East England 🔒… Read More »

Mystery Machinery: Laboratorium Tesli

Katowice, Sep 2023

Located in a shopping centre out by the Katowice Załęże station on the west side of the city, Mystical Machinery have seven escape rooms and a laser tag arena; when we visited, the lobby was full of excited children with plastic guns. They also have … (more)

Mind Maze: Galactic Pioneers

Prague, Aug 2023

Every spaceship develops potentially catastrophic problems at some point in its journey, and every spaceship can be fixed by sufficient fiddling with electronic panels and screens. That, at least, is what I’ve learned from escape rooms. In Galactic P… (more)

Mind Maze: An Incredible Story of Nautilus

Prague, Aug 2023

These days Mind Maze has three separate locations; conveniently for visiting enthusiasts, the two TERPECA-nominated rooms are both at the same address. We played both, starting with Nautilus.

You’d guess from the name that Nautilus is a steampunk-st… (more)

The Padlock: Safe – The Secret of Jack Daniel

Prague, Aug 2023

This game unquestionably should be getting a higher rating than I’m giving it. Safe, or The Secret of Jack Daniel, is an impressive game even by Prague’s high standards, and I can easily understand why many visiting enthusiasts consider it the best i… (more)

LostExit: Kino Úsvit

Prague, Aug 2023

The escape room industry is always advancing and becoming more sophisticated, so there’s little place for nostalgia, no golden age to look back to, when the cutting edge just keeps improving. Even so, Úsvit Cinema struck me as showcasing several virt… (more)

Mystiqueroom: Cube

Budapest, Aug 2023

I picked Cube for our second game at Mystiqueroom because it was their highest rated, without really knowing what the theme was. As it turned out, the stronger half of the room design clearly takes inspiration from the sci-fi movie of the same name, … (more)

Mystiqueroom: Pirate Bay

Budapest, Aug 2023

There are at least three pirate-themed rooms in Budapest, giving you a choice of Ship, Bay or Cave; Mystiqueroom’s version is the Bay, and we found it visually impressive but a bit temperamental on the puzzle mechanisms.

Our mission was to get the W… (more)

Aroom: Sky Heist

Budapest, Aug 2023

Aroom and Locked Room are different venues that are part of the same company and a single website, but Aroom is the one that tends to get the more favourable reviews. I’ve only previously played their zombie theme Deadland, but enjoyed it enough to m… (more)