Category Archives: UK

Escape London: Overthrone

London, Nov 2018

It had been a while since I’d visited Escape London’s Shepherds Bush branch, and I was pleased to find they’ve upgraded their entrance: the venue is still down a narrow staircase, but it’s now a much more attractively appointed staircase, fronted by … (more)

Cluequest: cQ OriGENES

London, Nov 2018

A new game from Cluequest is a rare and much-anticipated thing. One of the very first U.K. operators, they took the approach of running many copies of their games in parallel rather than churning out lots of different games, and when they do release … (more)

Trapp’d: Legend of Drakon

Wellingborough, Nov 2018

Ambitious as ever in their game concepts, Trapp’d have set the third game of their Wellingborough branch in a dragon’s cave. At least, that’s what the game’s marketing material suggests, though having set players’ expectations so high, the room risks… (more)

Trapp’d: The Forsaken

Wellingborough, Nov 2018

Of the three games at Trapp’d Wellingborough, Forsaken is the one with the least exotic theme – you’re merely infiltrating a Satanic cult, not an underwater city or a dragon’s cave. It is however decorated with equal gusto, and perhaps because it set… (more)

Trapp’d: Atlantis The Lost City

Wellingborough, Nov 2018

I have to hand it to Trapp’d – most companies wouldn’t even think of attempting to build an escape room set in an underwater city. If the result falls short of being properly convincing, they still get points for trying. From one perspective their un… (more)

Epsom Escape: Operation Sealion

Epsom, Oct 2018

Located in the main clubhouse at Horton Park Golf Club, Epsom Escape’s games are from the same enthusiast designer as Escape From The Room in Sutton, and now hosts that venue’s Old Maid Milly game. Golf and escaping wouldn’t have occurred to be as an… (more)

Epsom Escape: Mystery Express: Inspector Graves’s Secret

Epsom, Oct 2018

When looking to book this game, you might be briefly confused as to whether it’s called Mystery Express or Inspector Graves’s Secret, and the reason is that the room is Mystery Express, but the game is Inspector Graves’s Secret. That’s … (more)

Epsom Escape: The Challenge Chambers

Epsom, Oct 2018

I knew before playing Challenge Chambers that it was a competitive ‘versus’ game where two teams can compete in identical copies of the room; what I hadn’t realised was that it also has a variable score system. Each copy of the room has a wall of puz… (more)

Fun Times Immersive: The Lift of Doom

London, Oct 2018

Escape rooms designed specifically for two are a rarity, but Lift of Doom is unusual in other ways. For a start, it’s only 17 minutes long (plus some time for an audio introduction). And where most venues frown upon players who’ve been drinking, this… (more)

AIM Escape: Hangover Déjà Brew

London, Oct 2018

Stag and hen groups are a reliable source of custom for escape rooms, so perhaps it’s surprising how few games in the UK have a risqué theme – I’m aware of four in the country, and six months ago there was only one. One of those four is Hangover Déjà… (more)