Category Archives: UK

Escape in the Towers: Crime & Punishment Lab

Canterbury, May 2017

Crime & Punishment Lab is built within the Westgate, Canterbury’s medieval gatehouse, a local landmark and grade I listed building, among the most spectacularly authentic locations I’ve seen used for an escape game.

Although the towers date back to … (more)

Lock’d: Museum Warehouse

London, Jun 2017

Museum Warehouse is a variant on a heist theme, where you are art thieves trying to find and take a set of small statuettes. Cynically, the ‘Warehouse’ part of the name is convenient since it allows a simpler type of decor, based around metal shelvin… (more)

Eureka Escape: Murder on the Night Riviera

Cornwall, Jul 2017

I’m not sure you could arrive at an escape room in a more apt manner than we did – travelling down overnight from London Paddington, on the sleeper train, fast asleep until waking to the view of St Michael’s Mount close to the venue, then walking str… (more)

Red House Mysteries: The Heist

Exeter, Jun 2017

I got a good impression of Red House Mysteries from the moment I entered the venue, through a corridor lightly but skilfully decorated to evoke an air of old-time mystique. They have two games with quite distinct themes and styles, and the first one … (more)

Red House Mysteries: The Scarlet Shadow

Exeter, Jun 2017

The Scarlet Shadow is a 1940s detective story dripping with noir cool. The titular Shadow is a legendary mask which you may recognise from their Heist game. While hot on the trail of this artefact, the intrepid adventurer Jack Armstrong has been kidn… (more)

Locked In Cornwall: Time Bomb

Cornwall, Jun 2017

Let’s get something straight right away, this room has no theme. Not only does it have no theme, it actually bears zero relevance to the name of the room either — TIMEBOMB. There’s neither a bomb or a fixed time to escape in.

Whilst being briefed b… (more)

Locked in a Room: Invisibility Gene

London, Jun 2017

We played Invisibility Gene shortly after Timelock, and it had an equally slick intro sequence, slightly weakened by its close similarity to the one we’d had for their other game.

The format is very similar: lots of four-digit padlocks and a highly … (more)

Locked in a Room: Timelock

London, Jun 2017

Locked In A Room are the highest capacity escape venue in London, with 13 rooms capable of letting 78 people play simultaneously. That’s 13 rooms consisting of duplicate copies of each of two game designs, and of the two Timelock is their easier room… (more)

Escape Rooms: The Dark Side of the Moon

London, May 2017

Your team is briefed – at the end of 1945, some Nazis set up a colony on the dark side of the moon. Yes, it’s an “Iron Sky” themed escape room! Your government has intercepted a signal saying “Ready”. You and your team must thwart their plans by bre… (more)

Escape Rooms: Project D.I.V.A.

London, May 2017

I went into Project D.I.V.A. thinking, wow! – but came out thinking, what a shame. This game has cool technology and stagecraft, let down by too many game weaknesses.

There’s a huge contrast between Escape Rooms’ new Angel games and their original, … (more)