Category Archives: UK

Lucardo Rawtenstall: University of Magic: Dragon’s Heart

Rawtenstall, May 2019

Magic School has proved wildly popular as an escape room theme, and Lucardo have one such game in each of their two branches. Instead of taking the easy route of duplicating a single game, these are two completely distinct games. (I guess it would ma… (more)

No Exit: The Tomb of the Pharaoh

Bolton, Apr 2019

Squeezing in a quick extra escape room in Bolton my choices were limited. No Exit purchase their game designs, and I’d played three of their four games at other venues, so Tomb of the Pharaoh was the only option. The friendly gamemaster gave us their… (more)

Tulleys Escape: Nethercott Manor

Crawley, Apr 2019

Nethercott Manor, the third game from Tulleys Escape Rooms, has sat at the top of my must-play game list ever since it opened, while garnering one rave review after another; it’s currently the highest ranked game on this site by player reviews. And i… (more)

Escape Nation: The Citadel

Stafford, Apr 2019

A hat tip here to the review blog Brit of an Escape Habit, since without their recommendation I probably wouldn’t have decided to make a stop at Stafford on my journey north, and in the event I very much l… (more)

Escape Quest: Henry Fortune’s House of Illusion

Macclesfield, Apr 2019

I don’t get many chances to visit the north west, and when I finally got an opportunity to do so a return visit to Escape Quest was top of the agenda. As with their Curious Encounters game, this meant playing with a team of two despite the official m… (more)

Escape Quest: Curious Encounters

Macclesfield, Apr 2019

Curious Encounters has been running at Escape Quest for several years now, but with a significant revamp in 2017. I never played the original version, so can’t comment on whether the changes amount to an entirely new game; if in doubt check with the … (more)

London Escaped Ltd: Vampire Slayers

London, Apr 2019

Walking into the game that London Escaped bill as their hardest room, my first impression was entirely positive – a spacious room with both atmosphere and character. I mention that since pretty much all of my subsequent impressions of the game were m… (more)

London Escaped Ltd: Wizards Cup

London, Apr 2019

‘Magic School’ has become one of the most popular and widespread escape room themes, with varying levels of discretion about their references to the Harry Potter franchise. London Escaped have doubled down on this by opening two different games of th… (more)

London Escaped Ltd: White Walker

London, Apr 2019

Having had some mixed experiences with London Escaped previously, I returned with some trepidation to try their most recent three games. White Walker is a curious offering: if you’ve visited the venue since the game’s installation you can’t have fail… (more)

Doomsday Games: Pathogen

Colchester, Apr 2019

The 60 minute time limit is near universal for escape rooms, with only a handful of longer or shorter games in the U.K. As it happens, every extended length game I’ve played has been at least very good – perhaps because longer games tend to be less p… (more)