Category Archives: UK

D S Escape Rooms: Luna 13

Haverhill, Apr 2019

The second room at D S Escape Rooms puts you on an out of control spaceship, with a complete change of theme and style to their first game. It’s a challenge to build any kind of convincing spaceship environment, and while Luna 13 uses a simple constr… (more)

D S Escape Rooms: Elude

Haverhill, Apr 2019

My escape room addiction has led me to all sorts of curious suburbs, back streets and industrial parks in search of venues. D S Escape Rooms were one of the harder companies to find, buried inside a sprawling business centre with corridors painted in… (more)

The Extraction Room: Extraction

Maidstone, Mar 2019

Previously known as The Room Maidstone, The Extraction Room recently rebranded to avoid a naming conflict with a different escape room company. Their now-eponymous first game follows well-trodden ground by having you imprisoned by an insane scientist… (more)

Escape Hub: Inbound

Maidstone, Mar 2019

Escape Hub’s most recent (at time of writing) game is Inbound, set in World War II. Specifically, you’re in bomb-struck 1940s London, and your mission is to retrieve three envelopes of confidential information before the next air raid hits. Naturally… (more)

Escape Hub: The Laughing Lair

Maidstone, Mar 2019

Due to time constraints we could only play two of the three games available at Escape Hub, so in addition to their most recent one I picked The Laughing Lair, a game which has you imprisoned by a supervillain who goes unnamed but bears more than a pa… (more)

Hint Hunt: The Safe

London, Apr 2019

In the rapidly evolving escape room industry, there’s a constant pressure for each new game to be larger, more high-tech, more immersive or more pretty to look at; and as individual owners and designers gain experience, each new game at any given ven… (more)

Hint Hunt: Submarine – Deep Down

London, Apr 2019

It is deeply weird to walk into an escape room that you’ve played just a few days before, with all the pre-game intro causing serious déjà vu. But Deep Down is the alter ego of Torpedo, the two Submarine games being Hint Hunt’s ambitious attempt to c… (more)

Hint Hunt: Submarine – Torpedo

London, Mar 2019

Having opened the UK’s first escape room back in 2012, Hint Hunt’s London branch then continued quietly doing business with their two games while the industry exploded around them, until finally adding some new options to their line-up in 2018. Two o… (more)

Clue HQ Birmingham: The Hellevator

Birmingham, Mar 2019

Clue HQ’s Birmingham branch has two games that are only available in that location, both often praised by enthusiasts. Since one of those (Captain Riddle) is the best I’ve played from the company so far, I was eager to try the other, Hellevator. Alth… (more)

Clue HQ Birmingham: Cell Block C

Birmingham, Mar 2019

As one of Clue HQ’s older games, Cell Block C is available at over half a dozen locations around the country, and I had not rushed to try it on the assumption that its age meant it would be one of the company’s less interesting offerings. But it neat… (more)