Category Archives: London

Enigma Escape: The Breakout

London, May 2017

The Breakout is Enigma Escape’s second room, which in their narrative continuity occurs before their other room, which I guess makes it a prequel. Despite the very different types of story (‘escape from a psycho’ versus ‘break someone out of jail’, t… (more)

Enigma Escape: The Killer

London, May 2017

Enigma Escape opened a couple of years ago with the help of a Kickstarter campaign. Their game concept stood out for the then-novel idea that their games would aim for realism and immersion, following the logic of the story not just an arbitrary seri… (more)

ClueTrace: Mission Critical

London, Jun 2017

ClueTrace’s original game had you sneaking into the mid of a white collar criminal, and Mission Critical continues this idea, but this time with the mind of a Soviet official at the end of the Cold War, trying to find the identity of a double agent…. (more)

Escape Land: Da Vinci’s Exploration

London, May 2017

Da Vinci is a common escape room theme, which is probably the fault of the Dan Brown bestseller. Escape Land’s version has you hunting for the Holy Grail with the help of clues from Leonardo himself (no, not the mutant turtle) before unnamed ‘evil fo… (more)

Escape Land: Professor Oxford’s Experiments

London, May 2017

Escape Land is hidden away in a basement found behind an unobtrusive door on Oxford Street that I must have walked past a dozen times without noticing before. They were among the earlier set of escape rooms to open in London, and I’ve intending to vi… (more)

Escape Rooms: Pharaoh’s Chamber

London, May 2017

Having played quite a lot of games recently that aspire to be immersive and story-driven, Pharaoh’s Chamber was a contrast and a throw-back to an earlier style of escape room, where the puzzles are front and centre and the theme is really just window… (more)

Modern Fables: The Escapist

London, May 2017

On seeing the pre-launch website for this company I mentally marked it down as one to get excited about. The ‘urban fairy tales’ concept presses my buttons, and the description suggested a very promising focus on immersion and drama. A room full of p… (more)

Escape Rooms: Room 33

London, May 2017

Escape Rooms are one of London’s more longer-established escape venues. They have a good reputation and have just opened a second location in Angel with two new rooms, so it seemed like a good time to finally pay them a visit.

The plot of Room 33 is… (more)

Escape Games London: Escape The Theatre

London, May 2017

Well, I can’t say I wasn’t warned. As important context for this review, when booking it I was aware it was lowest ranked of all currently open London games at The Logic Escapes Me, so instead of getting a … (more)

Escape This Room: London Bank Heist

London, May 2017

Escape This Room is one of the most recent additions to the London escape game scene – but however only a temporary addition, since it turns out they’re only running until 27th May, putting them in competition for shortest pop-up escape room run ever… (more)