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Margate, Jul 2018

What’s not to love about a Victorian-style mad scientist’s laboratory? Your job is to finish the work started by a missing genius, before a thunderstorm blows over – something to do with building a Monster…

An unexpected start provided a nice lead… (more)

Escape London: Escape The Seven Seas

London, Jul 2018

The UK’s largest escape room franchise has been busy this year, with new branches popping up across the country. In London they’ve added a branch in Shadwell to the existing one in West London to double the number of games on offer. Seven Seas is one… (more)

Clue Adventures: Gangster’s Treasure

London, Jul 2018

The prohibition-themed third game from Clue Adventures is based not in their main venue, but in the basement of a pub. Its lease at the pub where I played is about to run out, hopefully to be followed by it re-opening in a new location, although at t… (more)

Agent November: Murder Mr. E

London, Jun 2018

Third and last of the relaunched versions of Agent November’s games was Murder Mr. E. For anyone who’s coming to this without having read the previous two reviews already, I need to again clarify up front that I played as part of a launch event, with… (more)

Agent November: Major X Ploe-Shun (2018)

London, Jun 2018

This is of course a game I’ve reviewed before: see here. The reason for the repeat review is that it’s been revamped and relaunched, with most of the game updated, including the plot. I found I did in … (more)

Agent November: Robyn Yew

London, Jun 2018

In a complete break with all precedent, I tried an outdoor escape game on a sunny summer’s day instead of in freezing rain – astonishingly it turns out that that’s a better way to play! This was the first of three games for Agent November’s big 2018 … (more)

Chelmsford Escape Rooms: The Last Testament

Chelmsford, Jun 2018

By the time I actually started playing Chelmsford Escape Rooms’ first game, I felt a right cad. This was due to the unusual premise: you and your teammates are at the residence of your recently deceased great uncle, who you never bothered to visit du… (more)

Chelmsford Escape Rooms: The Governor

Chelmsford, Jun 2018

The premise of The Governor is that you’re a group of ghost hunters imprisoned in an abandoned prison by an ex-prisoner – thereby managing to combine no fewer than three of the classic escape room themes in an unexpected fusion of haunted house, pris… (more)

Clue HQ Brentwood: Sacrifice

Brentwood, Jun 2018

Sacrifice, currently the newest game at Clue HQ Brentwood, is a versus game; not in the sense that they run two identical copies of a stand-alone so that two teams can compete head to head, but using the rarer configuration where a single room pits o… (more)

Clue HQ Brentwood: Dungeon of Doom

Brentwood, Jun 2018

The Brentwood branch of Clue HQ has an unusual location out in the Essex countryside next to a Cold War era nuclear defence bunker, which we didn’t have time to visit as well but which seems a highly appropriate neighbour for an escape room venue, ev… (more)