Category Archives: International

Masterio: La Pierre de Lumière

Paris, Sep 2023

Rated between 4.5 and 5 out of 5
As part of the briefing (which, as normal in Paris, was not at all brief), we were asked to assign ourselves to roles: ranger, mage, dwarf, bard. Each role had a special characteristic. (Hot tip: mage is the best one.) Which should make clear the the… (more)

One Hour: L’Expédition Maudite

Paris, Sep 2023

Rated between 4.5 and 5 out of 5
I wasn’t sure exactly what type of expedition this was, other than “a cursed one”; the answer is that it’s an archaeological expedition, where the previous team of explorers have failed to return from a trip down a mineshaft. Our host explained, in a… (more)

Unleash: L’expedition Aronnax

Paris, Sep 2023

Rated 4.5 out of 5
The genre of submarine games can be broadly divided into steampunk and non-steampunk variants, and if you’ve read your Jules Verne the name of this one will make it clear that it’s of the former type. And where other rooms with similar themes only ta… (more)

Experience Dresden: Huntingdon

Dresden, Sep 2023

Rated between 3.5 and 4 out of 5
Is Huntingdon an escape room? In most respects it is, but the emphasis and the experience are different enough that you should try hard not to bring to it any preconceptions about how escape rooms normally work.
Where many rooms introduce the story … (more)

Gamescape Kraków: Klątwa Smoka

Kraków, Sep 2023

Rated 3.5 out of 5
With only a day to spend in the beautiful historic city of Kraków, we… booked ourselves into an impulse escape room, of course. Gamescape is out to the west of the centre, but close enough to be walkable, and has a sufficiently large selection of roo… (more)

Mind Maze: Galactic Pioneers

Prague, Aug 2023

Rated 4.5 out of 5
Every spaceship develops potentially catastrophic problems at some point in its journey, and every spaceship can be fixed by sufficient fiddling with electronic panels and screens. That, at least, is what I’ve learned from escape rooms. In Galactic P… (more)

Mind Maze: An Incredible Story of Nautilus

Prague, Aug 2023

Rated 4.5 out of 5
These days Mind Maze has three separate locations; conveniently for visiting enthusiasts, the two TERPECA-nominated rooms are both at the same address. We played both, starting with Nautilus.
You’d guess from the name that Nautilus is a steampunk-st… (more)

LostExit: Kino Úsvit

Prague, Aug 2023

Rated 4.5 out of 5
The escape room industry is always advancing and becoming more sophisticated, so there’s little place for nostalgia, no golden age to look back to, when the cutting edge just keeps improving. Even so, Úsvit Cinema struck me as showcasing several virt… (more)