Category Archives: International

X Dimension: La Secret de la Perle Noir (The Secret of the Black Pearl)

Paris, Oct 2018

The second Parisian pirate game we played in two days, X Dimension’s Black Pearl has you on board an old frigate lost in another dimension, trying to guide it back. This venue follows the custom of blindfolding the players for their entrance into the… (more)

La Pièce: L’Odyssée de la Pièce

Paris, Oct 2018

At time of writing, La Pièce’s second game is only listed on the French version of their website; if you go through the booking pages in English you’ll see it listed only as an anonymous ‘La pièce 2’. Don’t be put off though: not only is it fully Eng… (more)

The Game: L’enlèvement (The Kidnapping)

Paris, Oct 2018

The Game send in character welcome emails after you book one of their rooms, and the one for The Kidnapping is written as a plea for help: the author’s sister has been kidnapped, and the perpetrators are demanding a particular valuable abject as her … (more)

The Game: Le métro (The Metro)

Paris, Oct 2018

In the niche world of obsessive escape room fandom, some games and some companies develop a reputation. The Game is one of these, with The Metro likely to be near the top of the must-play list of those addicts whose Paris holiday planning is based ar… (more)

Hint Hunt: Pirates

Paris, Oct 2018

Just over five years ago I played my first escape room, at Hunt Hunt in London. I played my second with them as well, since at the time no other U.K. venues existed. Although I loved both games at the time, they were primitive by modern standards and… (more)

Escape Lab: PC Sécurité – Base B423 (Central Security Post – Base B423)

Paris, Oct 2018

Escape Lab is a curious experiment, a shared space where numerous different escape room operators can run their games, a business model that I could imagine succeeding elsewhere. PC Sécurité is from a design company named Oneway (previously Hydre), a… (more)

Lock Academy: Très Cher Lock (Little Miss Lock)

Paris, Oct 2018

Lock Academy currently operates six escape rooms, and of those Très Cher Lock is the one I’d heard of first, the one that comes up most frequently in discussions of which games to play in Paris. However, that’s because it’s one of their earlier games… (more)

Lock Academy: L.A. Confidential

Paris, Oct 2018

Despite the name this is nothing to do with the 1997 movie starring Russell Crowe. The L.A. stands for Lock Academy, the detective school that provides a common setting for all this venue’s games, and your task is… to relax in the Academy’s recreat… (more)

Lock Academy: Le Casse de la Siècle (The Heist of the Century)

Paris, Oct 2018

First of three games I tried at Lock Academy, Heist of the Century was also the first escape room I’ve tried playing in a different language. Due to a complicated series of booking problems that were entirely my fault, I ended up having to find a sub… (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)