Category Archives: International

MDB Escape Room: Road to Freedom

Sofia, Apr 2024

I really want to like Road to Freedom. It has so much going for it, starting with the original setting in which you are Bulgarian partisans in 1876, striving for national independence from the Ottoman Empire. This room looks impressive and immersive … (more)

MDB Escape Room: El Patron

Sofia, Apr 2024

A Bulgarian room with a Spanish name, El Patrón (think ‘The Godfather’) is based around 80s drug lord Pablo Escobar. We were DEA agents, and apparently we were trying to find a ledger full of evidence, though we may have lost track of that during the… (more)

Enigmania: Voodoo

Sofia, Apr 2024

It was only when en route to Enigmania that we discovered the game’s unusual requirement: that we each bring a small personal item. This needed some quick improvisation, though fortunately they weren’t too picky about the items we provided – there’s … (more)

Bioxcape

Sofia, Apr 2024

I’ve played several escape games built within museums, and none were like this. For one, BioXcape is not actually in the body of the museum; you enter via a side entrance, and descend into a genuine military bunker. And, thanks to the freedom of havi… (more)

Funky Monkeys: Rebellion

Sofia, Apr 2024

Funky Monkey’s first game Rebellion was in fact designed by Codex in Bucharest – which is a point in its favour, based on the visit I made to that company some years back. In it you’re infiltrating a secret society so as to unmask the members of the… (more)

Infinity Escape: Secret Chamber

Sofia, Apr 2024

Two of the three rooms at Infinity Escape have a magic school theme, and we dived straight in with the second and more recent of those; which has a story inspired by the second book in a certain series of novels. When booking this room you have the o… (more)

The First Hunt

Sofia, Apr 2024

Back in Sofia for the first time in six years, we played The First Hunt as the first room on a mini-binge. For now it’s the only game available at the venue, and has a fantasy historical theme involving a witch and a curse.

Our host explained the us… (more)

De Gouden Kooi: Han’s Revenge

Mechelen, Apr 2024

From the name I guessed this would be a sequel to Saint Rumoldus, but it is in fact a stand-alone story. And a thoroughly original one too – pretty sure it’s the first time I’ve entered a room playing the role of air conditioning maintenance worker. … (more)

Escape Room Katwijk: Here I Am

Katwijk, Apr 2024

I would never have guessed from the name that Here I Am is a prison escape theme. But then I wouldn’t have guessed that their previous room Bella Ciao was a robbery theme. In both cases the game is inspired by a television drama which I hadn’t seen a… (more)

Breakout Rotterdam: The Caretaker

Rotterdam, Apr 2024

Breakout have an interesting location at the top of The Machinist, a historic building that used to be a naval academy. Our game was built in a converted attic space, with old floorboards and ominous nooks and crannies that immediately gave the exper… (more)