Category Archives: UK

Escape Reading: The Vampire Slayers

Reading, Mar 2018

Horror rooms are a varied lot, and can be anything from puzzle-driven games with a few blood splatters and fake severed fingers to set the scene, through to full on terror experiences where solving anything is complicated by flickering lights and cha… (more)

Escape Reading: Kidnapped

Reading, Mar 2018

The first of the two horror themes we tried at Escape Reading’s central branch was Kidnapped, which avoids outright scares in favour of building a subtle creepy atmosphere. (For those who hate jump scares, there should be little to worry about here.)… (more)

Escape Reading: The Bank Robbery

Reading, Mar 2018

Bank Robbery is one of the two games at Escape Reading’s original branch, located on the west side of the city. I frequently book games without reading their descriptions very closely, and I’d assumed from the name we’d be robbing a bank. Instead, th… (more)

Lockhouse Escape Games: Secret Agent

Cambridge, Mar 2018

The latest game from Lockhouse is a Cold War spy theme, where you are trapped in a safe house and need to not only escape but also identify a traitor and find a set of blueprints.

The safe house is a basement room that suits the 1970s setting but wo… (more)

Cryptx: The Jewellery Heist

Cambridgeshire, Mar 2018

Located half an hour’s drive outside Cambridge city centre, Cryptx isn’t the easiest location to get to but from their booking calendar seem to manage to attract a steady stream of teams nonetheless. They emphasise that they’re an enthusiast-run oper… (more)

Trapp’d: The Outlaws of Red Rock

Peterborough, Feb 2018

The second game at the Peterborough branch of Trapp’d is their Western game, though since you start locked up and need to secure a gemstone before escaping, it has prison and heist elements thrown into the mix as well.

At their Northampton branch, I… (more)

Trapp’d: Madame Curio’s Cirque Delirium

Peterborough, Feb 2018

Trapp’d expanded last year to three branches, with the two games in Peterborough being their newest. Cirque Delirium is a carnival theme, where a sinister circus seems to be enslaving its visitors, and you have the usual 60 minutes to find a way out … (more)

Escape Peterborough: The Hunt

Peterborough, Feb 2018

My experience of Escape is that their games are reliably decent, but that the decor and atmosphere are rarely a particular strength – typically a nice enough set of props and themed puzzle components but usually starting from generic office space tha… (more)

Thinking Outside The Box: The North Pole

Peterborough, Feb 2018

I’ve somehow made an accidental habit of playing games at Thinking Outside The Box in the last few days before they close. Last time I made an intentional trip to catch their Stranded game before it finished, this time I just happened to be in Peterb… (more)

Breakout Rooms: Spy Games

Watford, Feb 2018

Inside the M25 but technically part of Hertfordshire not London, Watford has just gained its first escape venue with Breakout Rooms. Their website shows an ambitious list of three further games planned, but for now they’ve opened with two identical c… (more)