Category Archives: UK

Xscream Escapes: The Corpsewood Killer

Staines, Sep 2018

Xscream’s second game has you locked in the house of a serial killer, a straightforward premise that different companies interpret in a huge variety of ways. This one has created the feel of a rural house, and mostly avoids cheesy gore and Halloween … (more)

Xscream Escapes: Bedlam: Escape The Asylum

Staines, Sep 2018

With a name like Xscream Escapes, this venue’s games were never going to be about bunnies and rainbows, and their first two rooms are set in an old asylum and a serial killer’s den. Even so, these are not the intense horror experiences you might expe… (more)

Bust Out 360: Taken

Slough, Sep 2018

One of several companies that have opened in the last year between London and Reading, Bust Out 360 have launched with a classic serial killer scenario: blindfolded and handcuffed with an ominous voice promising you an unpleasant fate, just as soon a… (more)

Time Race: Vault 17

Bury, Sep 2018

Vault 17 is a game with a reputation. A couple of months after it opened, word spread that it had a zero percent success rate – not a single team had beaten it. Of course, that’s not a good thing in an escape room. It’s easy to make an escape room un… (more)

Trapped In Bury: The Ruby Factory

Bury, Sep 2018

Ruby Factory was high on my list of games to play in Bury mainly because it sounded interestingly different: a game with an almost totally open, non-linear structure, where instead of any single goal, your aim is to collect as many rubies as you can…. (more)

Trapped In Bury: Interstellar

Bury, Sep 2018

Interstellar was the second game we played at Trapped In with a sci-fi theme, and the difference was remarkable. Where Time Machine used silver foil and spare electronics as decoration, Interstellar is in a different league. Though not up to Hollywoo… (more)

Trapped In Bury: Time Machine

Bury, Sep 2018

Having time to play only three of the six games on offer at Trapped In Bury, Time Machine was the one I picked more or less at random to complete our schedule, based mainly on it sounding like a theme with potential to be interesting. In fact, it tur… (more)

Pressure Point: Murder on the Dancefloor

Ashford, Sep 2018

The final game in our schedule at Pressure Point was their 70s disco murder mystery, Murder on the Dancefloor. The winner of a dance competition has been murdered, and, as a group of disco stars yourselves, you decide to sneak into the dancehall and … (more)

Pressure Point: Broken

Ashford, Sep 2018

Broken, currently Pressure Point’s newest game, is set in a nuclear bunker. Following the venue’s penchant for putting an unusual spin on a familiar setting, you’re not infiltrating a bunker or trying to break out of one – instead, this is an ageing … (more)

Pressure Point: The Accused

Ashford, Sep 2018

As with so many prison escape games, you have been accused of a crime you didn’t commit… but in this game your goal is to gather the evidence that incriminates you and find a way to destroy it, a twist that made me wonder whether we were as innocen… (more)