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London Escaped Ltd: Vampire Slayers

London, Apr 2019

Walking into the game that London Escaped bill as their hardest room, my first impression was entirely positive – a spacious room with both atmosphere and character. I mention that since pretty much all of my subsequent impressions of the game were m… (more)

London Escaped Ltd: Wizards Cup

London, Apr 2019

‘Magic School’ has become one of the most popular and widespread escape room themes, with varying levels of discretion about their references to the Harry Potter franchise. London Escaped have doubled down on this by opening two different games of th… (more)

London Escaped Ltd: White Walker

London, Apr 2019

Having had some mixed experiences with London Escaped previously, I returned with some trepidation to try their most recent three games. White Walker is a curious offering: if you’ve visited the venue since the game’s installation you can’t have fail… (more)

Doomsday Games: Pathogen

Colchester, Apr 2019

The 60 minute time limit is near universal for escape rooms, with only a handful of longer or shorter games in the U.K. As it happens, every extended length game I’ve played has been at least very good – perhaps because longer games tend to be less p… (more)

D S Escape Rooms: Luna 13

Haverhill, Apr 2019

The second room at D S Escape Rooms puts you on an out of control spaceship, with a complete change of theme and style to their first game. It’s a challenge to build any kind of convincing spaceship environment, and while Luna 13 uses a simple constr… (more)

D S Escape Rooms: Elude

Haverhill, Apr 2019

My escape room addiction has led me to all sorts of curious suburbs, back streets and industrial parks in search of venues. D S Escape Rooms were one of the harder companies to find, buried inside a sprawling business centre with corridors painted in… (more)

The Extraction Room: Extraction

Maidstone, Mar 2019

Previously known as The Room Maidstone, The Extraction Room recently rebranded to avoid a naming conflict with a different escape room company. Their now-eponymous first game follows well-trodden ground by having you imprisoned by an insane scientist… (more)

Escape Hub: Inbound

Maidstone, Mar 2019

Escape Hub’s most recent (at time of writing) game is Inbound, set in World War II. Specifically, you’re in bomb-struck 1940s London, and your mission is to retrieve three envelopes of confidential information before the next air raid hits. Naturally… (more)

Escape Hub: The Laughing Lair

Maidstone, Mar 2019

Due to time constraints we could only play two of the three games available at Escape Hub, so in addition to their most recent one I picked The Laughing Lair, a game which has you imprisoned by a supervillain who goes unnamed but bears more than a pa… (more)

Hint Hunt: The Safe

London, Apr 2019

In the rapidly evolving escape room industry, there’s a constant pressure for each new game to be larger, more high-tech, more immersive or more pretty to look at; and as individual owners and designers gain experience, each new game at any given ven… (more)