Category Archives: UK

History Mystery: The Queenmaker

Norfolk, Dec 2017

With their first two games set in Norwich Guildhall, History Mystery had already set a high bar for their locations, but their third game takes that to a new level by being set in an actual church. The church in question is part of the Blickling esta… (more)

History Mystery: Archived Alive!

Norwich, Dec 2017

In Archived Alive! your mission is to rescue the local historian, who has managed to lock himself in the vaults. As he explains to you in the intro video, the poor fellow has been there three days without food or water, and since he’s also worried ab… (more)

Escape Colchester: 221B Baker Street

Colchester, Dec 2017

Many Sherlock-themed escape games need an excuse for why the great man himself isn’t present – perhaps he’s been kidnapped, or has died, or is simply too busy with more important cases. Escape’s version takes a novel approach: here you are in fact th… (more)

Escape Ipswich: Taken

Ipswich, Dec 2017

The second game at Escape Ipswich (and also at various other branches of Escape around the country) has you investigating a serial killer, and inevitably you’ve found yourselves caught and in danger of becoming his next victims. Naturally this killer… (more)

Escape Ipswich: Contagion

Ipswich, Dec 2017

Humanity is once again in peril, this time from an epidemic that’s swept the globe and left your team as the last scientists on Earth. Fortunately there is an antidote hidden somewhere in a laboratory, if you can reach it in time.

The Escape franchi… (more)

Suffolk Food Hall: Gamekeeper’s Bothy

Ipswich, Dec 2017

After a chilly first game at Suffolk Food Hall, we were pleased to discover their other game had a portable fan heater in the corner – although the size of the space meant we still ended up taking intermittent breaks to go over and warm our hands ove… (more)

Suffolk Food Hall: Vanished – Prof Campbell’s Lab

Ipswich, Dec 2017

Suffolk Food Hall is a rather wonderful food emporium on the southern fringes of Ipswich, with everything from local produce to garden supplies… and also a pair of escape rooms. It’s one of the more surprising venues I’ve seen, but I guess they had… (more)

Ipswich Escape Rooms: The Secret Clubhouse

Ipswich, Dec 2017

You might find the backstory for this game a little perplexing: it involves a boy called Jan Tleskac who has a flying bicycle, and a certain puzzle called ‘the Hedgehog in the Cage’. It is in fact based on a series of Czech 1940s children’s stories, … (more)

Agent November: Christmas Crisis

London, Dec 2017

Christmas is in trouble again, after a crash has left Santa lying in a snowdrift and you with the responsibility for sorting everything out. At least, I think that was the premise – if I didn’t catch all the details of the story, I blame that on the … (more)

Time 2 Escape: You’re Next

Strood, Dec 2017

I was frankly a little apprehensive about playing You’re Next; it was clearly a horror theme, and with no website other than a Facebook page and a location in the Medway suburbs Time 2 Escape looked like a fairly low overhead operation. While there’s… (more)