Category Archives: International

Outline Escape Room: Outline

Barcelona, Jan 2025

Rated 5 out of 5
Outline is superlative in a number of ways. Including for the most extravagant use of smoke – I didn’t realise a smoke machine was capable of creating such a fog that you can’t even see your own outstretched hands. The hosts did say at the end that t… (more)

Golden Pop: Jurásico

Barcelona, Jan 2025

Rated between 4.5 and 5 out of 5
As a rule of thumb, dinosaur themes are good silly fun, and involve plenty of suspension of disbelief. After all, it’s a pretty tall order to convince a group of players that they’re not just in some room solving puzzles, but exploring a tropical rai… (more)

The X-Door: La Peluquería

Valencia, Jan 2025

Rated 5 out of 5
Spanish games – at least the top tier ones – have a fondness for cold starts, where the game begins without meeting any staff unless they’re already in character. That’s the case here too, though there was an initial intro with a chance to use the ba… (more)

Puzzle Room Bangkok: Lost Symbol

Bangkok, Dec 2024

Rated 3.5 out of 5
This was a rare game that I played solo, since I was passing through Bangkok on my own. The company doesn’t provide an online booking system, and don’t officially support teams smaller than two people, so it took some negotiation over WhatsApp to arr… (more)

Miss Terry: Blood Dragon

Hanoi, Nov 2024

Rated 3.5 out of 5
Miss Terry currently has three locations within Hanoi, one of which is in the Old Quarter and therefore significantly more convenient to get to for most visitors. We chose the theme with a Hong Kong triad crime theme.
As appears to be standard for g… (more)

iEscape: The Basement

Hoi An, Nov 2024

Rated 3 out of 5
I’d thought that all the escape rooms in Hoi An had closed during the pandemic, but we found an exception or perhaps a newer addition. My hopes weren’t high though, because this is a single room being run downstairs in a hostel style hotel, as one of… (more)

Escape Games Fukuoka: Hangover

Fukuoka, Oct 2024

Rated between 3 and 3.5 out of 5
Hangover was the game I initially tried to book at this venue, despite the three person minimum, but the owner told me in fairly clear terms that it could not reasonably be completely by a team of two within the time limit. We then proceeded to beat … (more)

Escape Games Fukuoka: Wherehouse

Fukuoka, Oct 2024

Rated 3.5 out of 5
West Japan does not offer a wide selection of escape experiences available to English-speaking visitors; in the entire island of Kyushu the only one I could find was Escape Games Fukuoka. With such a lack of competition I arrived with low expectation… (more)