Category Archives: International

Adrenaline Escape Rooms: Tesla’s Genius Mind

Belgrade, Mar 2020

The inventor Nikola Tesla is something of a national hero in Serbia – his face is on the 100 dinar note, Belgrade’s airport is named after him, and there’s a museum dedicated to his achievements. So it’s no surprise that there are multiple escape roo… (more)

The Cube: Dexter

Skopje, Mar 2020

The Cube seems to be Skopje’s largest escape company: two venues a short walk from each other, with two games at each. I believe their Saw and Indiana games are purchased designs, whereas newer games Mansion and Dexter are their own creations. Dexter… (more)

Escape Room Skopje: The Cult

Skopje, Mar 2020

Escape Room Skopje’s website is artistic and clever and fairly impenetrable, at least if you don’t read Macedonian, so I recommend using their Facebook page to book. Their game The Cult appears to have been Skopje’s first escape room; they also have … (more)

The Game: The Lost City

Skopje, Mar 2020

The Game had two escape rooms available, of which only one is playable by a team of two – although I’d probably have picked Lost City anyway. because the promo pictures looked pretty. Those pictures were not misleading – it has some lovely jungle dec… (more)

RAZ Escape Room

Pristina, Mar 2020

At time of writing, RAZ Escape Room is the only escape room in Kosovo. It also has an intimidatingly back to basics website – the home page greets you with a booking form, there’s no information on the game’s theme, and you only get the full street a… (more)

Escape Room Nederland: The Dome

Bunschoten, Jan 2020

You may have heard of The Dome. In fact, I’m tempted to write two versions of this review: one for those who’ve never heard it mentioned, and another for everyone who knows of it as the game that came top of the 2019 TERPECA awards, the current reign… (more)

DarkPark Zoetermeer: The End

Zoetermeer, Jan 2020

I do wonder about the state of mind of the person who designed a game as wickedly twisted as The End. But whatever is wrong with their head, it’s wrong in a very, very good way, because The End is a work of genius that I absolutely loved.

I’m not en… (more)

Next Level Escaperoom: Catch Me If You Can

Eindhoven, Jan 2020

Catch Me If You Can is in fact a sequel to the venue’s original game, which we hadn’t played (and weren’t able to squeeze into our schedule); but all that we really needed to know of the backstory was that there was a bad guy named Jeffrey, and it wa… (more)

Escape Room Katwijk: Bella Ciao

Katwijk, Jan 2020

I haven’t seen a single episode of La Casa De Papel, the heist drama which is apparently Netflix’s most successful series in a language other than English, and which Bella Ciao is based on. As a result, there were plenty of references in this game th… (more)

Down The Hatch: Flight 815

Voorburg, Jan 2020

With my usual carelessness about the details of the games in booking myself into, I completely failed to realise that Flight 815 is an escape room inspired by the TV series Lost, figuring that out only about halfway through the game. It therefore cam… (more)