Category Archives: UK

Lock and Code: Breakout!

Weston-super-mare, Aug 2017

Breakout! is Lock and Code’s third game, the first in their town centre branch, and the most ambitious of their three so far. It’s set in a future dystopia with post-apocalyptic overtones, with more than a few sly nods to the Fallout computer game se… (more)

Lock and Code: The Alchemy Enigma

Weston-super-mare, Aug 2017

After the prolonged darkness of Lock and Code’s first game, I was looking forward to a nice well-lit room for their Alchemist game, and my heart sunk when we were passed a set of torches once again. Fortunately the light levels were a lot more friend… (more)

Lock and Code: The Last Victim

Weston-super-mare, Aug 2017

Lock and Code is currently Weston-super-mare’s only escape game venue, and it’s an enthusiast-run operation split across two locations. Their original location with their first two games is a little way out of town, and their third game is in a separ… (more)

Lockhouse Escape Games: Armageddon

Cambridge, Aug 2017

For some reason both the escape game venues currently open in central Cambridge use room designs from Hungarian company TRAP. I played most of the TRAP games in Budapest some years ago, but Armageddon is one of the designs that didn’t exist at that t… (more)

Do Stuff Escape Games: Pie & Mash Shop

London, Aug 2017

There are common escape game themes and uncommon ones, but I’d confidently predict that Do Stuff are the only company in the world with a game themed around a pie & mash shop. There is more to the plot than just the cheap diner theme though: the owne… (more)

Co-decode: Professor Dunstan and the Search for the Ancient Statuette

Swindon, Aug 2017

Professor Dunstan and the ~~Unfeasibly Long Room Name~~ Search for the Ancient Statuette is buried an industrial park on the east side of Swindon, and it took some searching and a couple of calls to the operator to find our way through t… (more)

Randoms Escape Rooms: The Twisted Undertaker

East Grinstead, Aug 2017

Twisted Undertaker is Randoms’ second game, and instead of one of using one of the rooms in their sports centre location, this one is out back inside a converted shipping container.

That might sound cramped and make-shift and… well, I guess it was… (more)

Randoms Escape Rooms: The Rundown Locker Room

East Grinstead, Aug 2017

Of all the names you could give an escape room, “Rundown Locker Room” does not suggest a polished and sophisticated experience. So it was with expectations kept firmly low that we signed up to play it.

The game is, appropriately, located in a sports… (more)

TimeQuest: The Quest to Save Camelot

Tonbridge, Aug 2017

Every once in a while I find myself in the odd position of having not enjoyed playing a game, and yet still thinking it was a good game that I’d be happy to encourage other people to play, and that was the case with TimeQuest’s Camelot game.

TimeQue… (more)