Category Archives: UK

Elusion Escape Rooms: Seven Sins

Southampton, Jul 2018

No matter how much I firmly maintain that I don’t much like horror games, escape rooms like Seven Sins come along and demonstrate that that’s not really true. I could try to claim I liked it despite the horror theme, but that won’t wash: the t… (more)

TimeTrap Escape Rooms: The Divide

Reading, Aug 2018

There are all sorts of potential pitfalls involved in attempting to build an escape room that addresses serious social issues – in this case inequality and homelessness. Being designed as entertainment, a game could easily come across as mocking, pat… (more)

Escape Live: Casino Heist

Coventry, Jul 2018

Escape Live’s casino game is one of that rare breed of escape room where you can emerge with a variable score based not on time but quantity of winnings. There is a central thread of puzzles leading to the exit, plus a number of additional puzzles wh… (more)

Omescape: Kingdom of Cats

London, Jul 2018

Omescape is a company familiar to many US enthusiasts, and having run three games in North London for a couple of years now they’ve expanded to a second branch in Aldgate. The first game at the new branch is one I’ve seen mentioned several times in e… (more)

AIM Escape: Psychopath’s Den

London, Jul 2018

Having got out of Patient Zero in good time, we had exactly an hour plus walking time to get to our next booked game… so squeezing in another one at AIM was inevitable. Psychopath’s Den is of course a serial killer game, one of surprisingly few in … (more)

AIM Escape: Patient Zero 2150

London, Jul 2018

It takes a pretty ballsy company to launch a set of escape games in London promising “the most immersive and high tech escape rooms you have ever experienced”. But marketing departments have a way of getting carried away, and while for most experien… (more)

The Escapement: The Pit

Margate, Jul 2018

While I guess by normal standards it’s pretty weird to go to a seaside town and spend the whole day indoors, the quality of the five games I played across the two escape companies in Margate was so high that I had no qualms about missing the beach. O… (more)

The Escapement: Egyptian Exodus

Margate, Jul 2018

If you’ve played a fair number of escape rooms, you’ve probably seen the inside of several Egyptian pyramids. While you can be pretty confident they’ll be liberally decorated with hieroglyphics, there’s plenty of variation in style, light levels and … (more)

The Escapement: Pirates of Polaris

Margate, Jul 2018

First of the three games I played at The Escapement, Pirates of Polaris places you in the brig of a pirate galleon, abandoned by the crew and left to go down with the ship, unless you can find a way to escape. The venue has achieved quite a reputatio… (more)

CTRL ALT ESC: Spacescape

Margate, Jul 2018

CTRL ALT ESC’s second game takes you into space, on a mission to a planet called Dirt. Naturally the mission does not go smoothly, and you need to make an emergency escape from your failing spaceship.

Spacescape is an ambitious game with some intere… (more)