Category Archives: International

Pirate Cave

Budapest, Sep 2022

Downtown Budapest is packed with escape rooms; even with the most intense schedule you could play games for a week without needing to leave the centre. So it’s pretty impressive that Pirate Cave has survived and thrived for close to a decade despite … (more)

Neverland: Aztec Catacomb

Budapest, Sep 2022

Neverland’s underground venue gives an otherworldly impression: it seemed like we’d found a whole complex of vividly coloured chambers, a sprawling space leading off to one escape room after another. They do indeed have an impressive number of escape… (more)

E-Exit: Secret Subway

Budapest, Sep 2022

Long a fixture on the Budapest scene, E-Exit has several often-recommended rooms, but Secret Subway is the newest and longest, at 75 minutes, as well as the one that tends to get the highest plaudits. In it you’re delving into a forgotten inventor’s … (more)

Gozsdu Mission: White Mission

Budapest, Sep 2022

Budapest’s reputation as an early centre for the escape room explosion is legendary; and White Mission is among the city’s most famous games. That’s due to the game’s concept, startlingly original when first created, that instead of a room filled wit… (more)

Unreal Room Escape: La Mina

Barcelona, Mar 2022

Barcelona boasts far more than its fair share of world class games, but La Mina was still notable for having won TERPECA awards in both 2019 and 2020, giving it a pedigree that’s hard to match.

At 90 mins this is a bumper size game. In fact, it’s pr… (more)

Futura Room Escape: Futura

Barcelona, Mar 2022

A secret city hidden under the ocean, built by and for the greatest scientists of the age, now deserted and in danger of destruction… given the premise, it’s appropriate that you’re welcomed by an empty lobby. Spanish games seem to often go the extra… (more)

Virus Room Escape: Tao Room Escape

Barcelona, Mar 2022

It’s rare to see an escape room with a truly unique theme, but there’s no question that Tao qualifies. Both the venue frontage and the website (at least, the Spanish and Catalan versions) simulate a massage parlour well enough that they apparently ge… (more)

Escape Barcelona: Cybercity 2049

Barcelona, Mar 2022

After so many genuinely first-rate games in and around Barcelona, it’s hard to find the words to do Cybercity justice. But let’s try anyway: it’s a sprawling extravaganza of an experience that’s relentlessly impressive and original, one of a tiny han… (more)

Cubick: Nathael

Barcelona, Mar 2022

Barcelona, and Spain more generally, has a thriving horror scene, but we were mostly avoiding them on this trip. However, we made an exception for Nathael – I’m not going to miss the chance to play a TERPECA-winning game.

I never did work out who th… (more)

Cubick: La Entrevista

Barcelona, Mar 2022

Cubick’s La Entrevista, or Interview, is styled after a job interview – the sort of job interview which you attend as a group, and start off blindfolded. That might sound like a horror setup, but while there are elements of that in the story and deco… (more)