Category Archives: International

Ninja Escape Room: Missão Ninja

Curitiba, Nov 2023

Rated 3.5 out of 5
Ninja Escape have a theme and they’ve run with it: not only are both their games Asian themed, the lobby and waiting room are packed with Oriental knick knacks, with anime songs playing on loop on a screen.
Mission Ninja was their first room, and li… (more)

EscapeRooms.gr: Holy Secret

Heraklion, Oct 2023

Rated between 3.5 and 4 out of 5
The theming here suggests a Dan Brown style plot perhaps involving the Illuminati or something, but it’s actually more original than that: following the death of the Pope, the holy sceptre that’s a symbol of his office has gone missing.
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Quest Factory: Cannibal Island

Paris, Sep 2023

Rated 4.5 out of 5
The word ‘Cannibal’ is one I associate more with grim serial killer rooms, but this game is about as cheerful and upbeat as any game I remember that involves severed body parts. The cannibals here are tribesmen on an obscure island; don’t expect nuan… (more)

Quest Factory: Le Fléau du Druide

Paris, Sep 2023

Rated between 4.5 and 5 out of 5
A wise piece of advice for escape room designers is that technology for its own sake adds little to a game, but it expands the range of possibilities for what you can create. Quest Factory illustrate that principle by using technology to do several t… (more)

Deep Inside: The Magician of Paris

Paris, Sep 2023

Rated between 4.5 and 5 out of 5
If you follow the TERPECA rankings (and you should), then you’re more likely to have come across Magician of Paris as one half of ‘The Full Experience’; Deep Inside offer it in combination with their second game as a double-bill. We chose to play jus… (more)

The Game: The Far West

Paris, Sep 2023

Rated between 4 and 4.5 out of 5
I try hard to rate games in an objective way, to the limited extent that’s possible with something as inherently subjective as enjoyment of escape rooms. By which I mean, I attempt to put less weight on considerations that are specific to me or that … (more)

Lock Academy: The Examination

Paris, Sep 2023

Rated 4.5 out of 5
The premise of The Examination is unusual for Lock Academy – because this is your graduation exam. The test is overseen by an AI assistant, and assesses a variety of skills that have a suspicious degree of overlap with the skills needed to beat an es… (more)

Lock Academy: Revolt At Lock Academy

Paris, Sep 2023

Rated 4.5 out of 5
Each room at Lock Academy is different and distinctive, but after playing a few of them you start to recognise a house style to the puzzles and the game structure. I’m not going to give away the plot, but Revolt starts off with the (fictional) founde… (more)