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Xscape Now: Oz

Telford, Mar 2024

The Wizard of Oz seems like a setting very well suited for an escape room theme, but for some reason is far less common than, say, Alice In Wonderland. Though perhaps that’s changing, with three Oz games now available around the UK.

From an entertai… (more)

Xscape Now: Sweeney Todd

Telford, Mar 2024

We binged our way through five of XscapeNow’s rooms, and only skipped the sixth because they close early on Sundays; and Sweeney Todd was the first one we played.

As a type of serial killer game, Sweeney is at most gleefully but inoffensively gory. … (more)

New UK escape rooms May 2024

What do airports, paddle boarding, and The Canterbury Tales have in common? Answer: This month’s roundup of escape room news features all three.

LevelUp Escape: Operation Overload

Shrewsbury, Mar 2024

Our second room at LevelUp was Operation Overload, a World War II setting where your mission is to find some critical intelligence in the streets and shops of wartime Britain before an incoming air raid destroys it. When we visited this room was bran… (more)

LevelUp Escape: Mission: Abducted

Shrewsbury, Mar 2024

LevelUp are inside a shopping centre, and since they were kind enough to open early to accommodate our schedule, that meant we had a slightly surreal entry through a closed and deserted mall. That would have made a very appropriate start to a zombie … (more)

Clockwork Escapes: The Creep

Telford, Mar 2024

With my usual disregard for reading about rooms before I book them, I’d assumed Creep was some kind of serial killer theme, purely based on the name. But no – it’s a lot closer to a sci-fi lab room, and although there’s peril it’s not of the human ki… (more)

Clockwork Escapes: Professor Clockwork’s Mind Palace

Telford, Mar 2024

Of the three rooms at Clockwork, Professor Clockwork’s Mind Palace is the one that’s least likely to wow you on entry. First impressions may be of a relatively basic style of set design. This is misleading, in that it’s actually quite a striking and … (more)

Clockwork Escapes: The Legend of Foole’s Gold

Telford, Mar 2024

Any visit to Clockwork Escapes is likely to leave you talking about the host. Becostumed and behatted, with an instant dry wit that could put Richard O’Brien to shame, with the presence and elocution of a circus ringmaster, he sets the tone of the ve… (more)

Escape Nation: Incognito’s Secret Lair

Stafford, Mar 2024

Incognito opened not long after my first visit to Escape Nation, and I’ve been meaning to play it ever since, on the strength of their first room, so was delighted to finally get a chance.

This is a light hearted secret agent game, decorated in brig… (more)

Escapism: Legacy

Plymouth, Mar 2024

I’m very overdue a proper trip round the escape rooms of Devon and Cornwall, but in the meantime I’ll take whatever brief chances I get to try them. So on a fleeting visit to Plymouth I picked a room at random at Escapism and booked in.

In Legacy yo… (more)