Category Archives: UK

Compendium Escape Rooms: Zombieland 2: The Perks of Karen

Bury, Mar 2024

There are any number of zombie themed rooms out there, and unless you make a point of avoiding them I imagine you’ve played several; but Karen is a much more original creature. This is zombie comedy, played for laughs but with a solid and sustained k… (more)

The Puzzle Room Cannock: The Tunnel 2

Cannock, Mar 2024

We’d booked two games at The Puzzle Room Cannock, so continued on from Emergency Landing to Tunnel. This one is designed in a split team communicative style where half the team is in the light section and half is in the dark section, and must work to… (more)

The Puzzle Room Cannock: Emergency Landing

Cannock, Mar 2024

The Puzzle Room Cannock is a company that changes its lineup of escape rooms quite frequently, but rarely gets reviewed on this site. So we were curious to sample their offerings, and started with Emergency Landing, in which you’re on board an automa… (more)

Xscape Now: Book of Magic

Telford, Mar 2024

I only realised after I’d booked it, but I’d played this room before – back in 2016, when it was The Book of Secrets at Clue Adventures in London. At the time I found it very impressive, and it was one of my standard recommendations for London rooms,… (more)

Xscape Now: Runaway Train

Telford, Mar 2024

XscapeNow’s train game is a Wild West theme, and of course the train you’re on is heading towards a collision that only you can prevent.

This is a room that looks good from the outset and maintains that impression throughout. The train setting gives… (more)

Xscape Now: Step Into Wonderland

Telford, Mar 2024

I planned to sit this one out, when booking the schedule for a weekend of escape rooms, because I played it previously when it was Imaginarium at Time Trap in Reading. However, swayed by fond memories of playing it the first time round, I decided on … (more)

Xscape Now: Oz

Telford, Mar 2024

The Wizard of Oz seems like a setting very well suited for an escape room theme, but for some reason is far less common than, say, Alice In Wonderland. Though perhaps that’s changing, with three Oz games now available around the UK.

From an entertai… (more)

Xscape Now: Sweeney Todd

Telford, Mar 2024

We binged our way through five of XscapeNow’s rooms, and only skipped the sixth because they close early on Sundays; and Sweeney Todd was the first one we played.

As a type of serial killer game, Sweeney is at most gleefully but inoffensively gory. … (more)

LevelUp Escape: Operation Overload

Shrewsbury, Mar 2024

Our second room at LevelUp was Operation Overload, a World War II setting where your mission is to find some critical intelligence in the streets and shops of wartime Britain before an incoming air raid destroys it. When we visited this room was bran… (more)

LevelUp Escape: Mission: Abducted

Shrewsbury, Mar 2024

LevelUp are inside a shopping centre, and since they were kind enough to open early to accommodate our schedule, that meant we had a slightly surreal entry through a closed and deserted mall. That would have made a very appropriate start to a zombie … (more)