Category Archives: International

Occultus Room Escape: Lands of Vera Cruz

Porto, Nov 2017

Vera Cruz was the name originally given to the trans-Atlantic territories claimed by early Portuguese explorers that later became Brazil. This game’s premise is that you are the discoverers of that land, captured by a Spanish fleet at Madeira in your… (more)

Scavenger Escape: Mozart’s Mystery

Salzburg, Aug 2017

Scavengers Escape’s Salzburg branch has three games, and our choice to play the Mozart one was mainly dictated by timing and by it being described as the hardest of their games. It seemed likely to be another game based around padlocks and old furnit… (more)

Exit The Room: Zombie

Salzburg, Aug 2017

Exit The Room were kind enough to let us play this game 90 mins earlier than we’d booked in for – we didn’t tell them that we wanted to change the time so that we could go try one of their competitor’s rooms too.

Despite the name, there are no zombi… (more)

Mystery Rooms: Captain’s Secret

Munich, Aug 2017

By all rights Mystery Rooms ought to have been quite sick of us after we moved our booking time to an earlier slot, called again a few minutes later to bump it back to its original time, then arrived at the game a full twenty minutes late. But they w… (more)

Fox in a Box: Prison

Munich, Aug 2017

The opening sequence of Prison has a striking similarity to that of another game I’ve played elsewhere, despite no official connection between the companies that I’m aware of. Fox in a Box have certainly had this game open longer than the other venue… (more)

Fox in a Box: Bunker 17

Munich, Aug 2017

Fox in a Box has grown into a significant international franchise, but until now I’d never quite managed to play one of their rooms. The branch in Munich seemed like a good chance to change that, and we booked into their Bunker 17 game.

The bunker i… (more)

Escape Room: The Mummy

Tallinn, Jul 2017

With a couple of hours spare before leaving Tallinn, naturally we squeezed in one final escape game, and the only venue who could provide a game in the narrow time window we had available was Escape Room, who we’d visited on a previous trip. The only… (more)

Claustrophobia: Gravity

Tallinn, Jul 2017

A year ago I visited Tallinn’s Claustrophobia branch and saw the beginnings of their Gravity game under construction. It sounded so remarkable and unique that this year while playing games in Riga, we tacked on a return visit to Tallinn expressly to … (more)

Claustrophobia: 221B Baker Street

Tallinn, Jul 2017

For some reason Sherlock Holmes keeps leaving in the middle of a case and so we find ourselves again clearing up his mess in another unsolved mystery.

The entry way is delightful, featuring a beautiful dog with lovely eyes (albeit looking slightly a… (more)

Affect Laboratories: Interview

Tallinn, Jul 2017

First things first, this is the sort of game where you may prefer to know as little as possible about it before playing it. So you might want to stop at the one sentence version of this review, which is: this is a remarkable game that you should go p… (more)