Category Archives: London

Escape Plan: Pushed For Time

Central London, Aug 2024

Every time someone asks for London recommendations, there’s always a chorus of replies suggesting Escape Plan, and for good reason; it’s one of a very small number of London venues that consistently wins over experienced players as well as beginners…. (more)

Enigma Quests: Mission Wavebreak

London, Apr 2022

The third game from Enigma Quests opened shortly before the pandemic, with the result that I was still thinking of it as a new game and was surprised to realise that it’s already over two years old. The scenario here is that you’re trying to defuse a… (more)

Museum of the Order of St John: Treason!

London, Mar 2022

London is blessed with many museums large and small, and The Museum of the Order of St John is one I’d never heard of before they opened an escape room. The Order of Saint John, it turns out, has a history spanning centuries, from a medieval chivalri… (more)

Clue Adventures: Jet2Space

London, Sep 2021

Two player games are a bit scarce on the ground, but Clue Adventures is an exception – Jet2Space is their second game that not only is playable by two, but which requires exactly two. This one takes the players on a ‘WheesyJet’ automated journey on a… (more)

Komnata Quest: Sherlocked

London, Sep 2021

In real life, being kidnapped by a criminal and left shackled in a box next to a ticking bomb would I suppose be a thoroughly unpleasant experience – so in that sense I guess you could say that Komnata have nailed the realism here.

Sherlocked is a 4… (more)

Komnata Quest: Maze of Hakaina

London, Sep 2021

Maze of Hakaina was for a time the well-reviewed flagship game at Komnata‘s New York branch, and was opened in London with a certain amount of fanfare. It’s easy to see how it could have caused some stir back when it was originally launched, with muc… (more)

Swamp Motel: The Drop

London, Nov 2021

Swamp Motel will be familiar to many enthusiasts from their Isklander trilogy of online games released during lockdowns, starting with Plymouth Point; they’ve now moved from the internet to the real world, and The Drop is a physical escape room / imm… (more)

SENSAS

London, Sep 2021

SENSAS is not an escape room. As an experience it’s closer to the style of the live Crystal Maze, in that it involves a series of challenges for you to tackle as a team, collecting tokens for your successes as you go. Unlike the Crystal Maze, in SENS… (more)

Time Run Presents: Sherlock: The Game Is Now

London, Feb 2020

In the early years, as escape rooms spread throughout the U.K., one London venue quickly gained an international reputation for production values that were streets ahead of anywhere else, as well as a variety of then unheard of innovations such as a … (more)

Komnata Quest: Doctor Frankenstein

London, Dec 2019

Well known in the U.S., Komnata made it to London last year and has been steadily opening games since. Doctor Frankenstein is one of two games at their initial location on Drury Lane, and is a theme that’s impossible to describe without repeated use … (more)