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AIM Escape: Psychopath’s Den

London, Jul 2018

Having got out of Patient Zero in good time, we had exactly an hour plus walking time to get to our next booked game… so squeezing in another one at AIM was inevitable. Psychopath’s Den is of course a serial killer game, one of surprisingly few in … (more)

AIM Escape: Patient Zero 2150

London, Jul 2018

It takes a pretty ballsy company to launch a set of escape games in London promising “the most immersive and high tech escape rooms you have ever experienced”. But marketing departments have a way of getting carried away, and while for most experien… (more)

The Escapement: The Pit

Margate, Jul 2018

While I guess by normal standards it’s pretty weird to go to a seaside town and spend the whole day indoors, the quality of the five games I played across the two escape companies in Margate was so high that I had no qualms about missing the beach. O… (more)

The Escapement: Egyptian Exodus

Margate, Jul 2018

If you’ve played a fair number of escape rooms, you’ve probably seen the inside of several Egyptian pyramids. While you can be pretty confident they’ll be liberally decorated with hieroglyphics, there’s plenty of variation in style, light levels and … (more)

The Escapement: Pirates of Polaris

Margate, Jul 2018

First of the three games I played at The Escapement, Pirates of Polaris places you in the brig of a pirate galleon, abandoned by the crew and left to go down with the ship, unless you can find a way to escape. The venue has achieved quite a reputatio… (more)

CTRL ALT ESC: Spacescape

Margate, Jul 2018

CTRL ALT ESC’s second game takes you into space, on a mission to a planet called Dirt. Naturally the mission does not go smoothly, and you need to make an emergency escape from your failing spaceship.

Spacescape is an ambitious game with some intere… (more)

CTRL ALT ESC: Frankenscape

Margate, Jul 2018

What’s not to love about a Victorian-style mad scientist’s laboratory? Your job is to finish the work started by a missing genius, before a thunderstorm blows over – something to do with building a Monster…

An unexpected start provided a nice lead… (more)

Get Out: The Curse of Horus

Lille, Jun 2018

Compulsively looking for another game to squeeze into our schedule before heading back to the U.K., we found Get Out happy to find us a slot at short notice, and also friendly about advising us on which of their five rooms we should play. On their re… (more)

Omega Agency: La Planque d’Ali

Ghent, Jun 2018

I tend to assume that any hint of an Egyptian theme in a game’s description means an Indiana Jones style tomb adventure, but this one is very clear that that’s not the case: you’re attempting to retrieve an artifact from the office of an egyptologist… (more)

John Doe: Casino Magnifico

Lille, Jun 2018

Our second game at John Doe had us on the trail of another missing agent, this time in the VIP lounge of a casino that might be a front for a nefarious drug gang. Your briefing instructs you that a particular celebrity is involved and you need to ide… (more)