Category Archives: UK

Salisbury Escape Rooms: Wessex Cold Case Unit

Salisbury, Mar 2019

As their website will tell you, Salisbury Escape Rooms is the “only U.K. escape room run by detectives”, which is true to the best of my knowledge. And their current game does seem to draw on that, with a description that talks about investigating pa… (more)

Escape Hunt: Worlds Collide

Oxford, Feb 2019

While there are any number of escape rooms that carefully skirt intellectual property laws with thinly veiled ‘homages’ to popular franchises, fully licensed games are much rarer, and so it was with much fanfare that Escape Hunt announced their offic… (more)

Escape Hunt: Escape The Wild West

Oxford, Feb 2019

Picking a game for the afternoon slot at Escape Hunt’s Oxford branch was a choice between pirates and cowboys, and we chose the latter. Wild West casts you as lucky but imperilled miners: having discovered a rich seam of gold in a remote and dusty fr… (more)

mostly harmless…: Escape The Jacket

London, Feb 2019

February in London means the Vault Festival is back, with a smorgasbord of theatre, comedy and more experimental shows; and escape room company Mostly Harmless return with another pop-up escape game. This one moves away from their previous sci-fi des… (more)

London Escaped Ltd: School of Magic

London, Dec 2018

Both of London Escaped’s first two rooms struck me as promising and enjoyable game designs, being operated in a way that didn’t bring out their full potential. School of Magic is similar, except that the underlying quality of the game appears to be s… (more)

Exciting Escapes: Banking On Trouble

Basingstoke, Dec 2018

As is not at all evident from the name, Banking on Trouble is set at the beginning of World War II, and your goal is to find information about a possible Nazi invasion of Britain – specifically, the landing place and time. The game’s name is a refere… (more)

Exciting Escapes: Murder At The Movies

Basingstoke, Dec 2018

Christmas travelling provided a handy excuse for a return visit to Exciting Escapes’ Basingstoke branch, and the two rooms there that I hadn’t previously played. The first was their 1960s game, which follows the company’s convention of basing each ro… (more)

Axes & Escapes: Santa’s Workshop

Norfolk, Dec 2018

Escape rooms have become wildly popular in a a very short time, but team-solving a themed room full of puzzles in 60 minutes is far from the only quirky leisure activity available, and Axes & Escapes is notable for offering both a set of escape rooms… (more)

ClueCapers: A Curious Inheritance

Winchester, Dec 2018

Given the names of ClueCapers’ previous two games Winchintzy and Winchokey, I was surprised their third wasn’t named A Curious Winheritance. Fortunately, it turns out to be set in the Winsonian Museum, thereby maintaining a good level of Winchester-t… (more)

Escape For Real: Portal

Milton Keynes, Nov 2018

Any company that opens a sci-fi game named Portal is pretty much guaranteed to catch my attention, so when we found ourselves in the vicinity with a couple of spare hours I grabbed the chance to book in. Escape For Real’s room has no connection to th… (more)