Category Archives: UK

Omescape: Penitentiary

London, Jul 2016

As a rule I enjoy rooms for large teams less. Even with experienced players, it’s difficult to co-ordinate effectively, and you end up spending too much time re-checking things that others have already looked at, or with some players less involved.

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Cluequest: Revenge of the Sheep

London, Jul 2016

Cluequest are clearly a professional outfit and whilst the initial welcome might be a bit rushed, the staff clearly try to take care of you once you get going. Revenge of the sheep is the third of their rooms. The most technically advanced room, they… (more)

Hidden Rooms: Invisible Space

London, May 2016

I hope to never see such a shoddy escape room again. Both our teams completed it in an absurdly short time, and while I’d like to claim that was due to our genius I’m pretty sure it was the room’s fault. Both our teams encountered multiple puzzles th… (more)

Omescape: Joker’s Asylum

London, Apr 2016

Definitely one of the harder rooms I’ve played – we made it out, but barely.

I found the initial section frustrating, in a way that could be significantly improved with better technology – I won’t go into details since it could be considered a minor… (more)

Escape Entertainment: Prohibition Pandemonium

London, Apr 2016

A large-team room with a prohibition-era pub theme, the operators use a public booking system where you can play with strangers – though we had a team of seven and had it to ourselves anyhow.

It’s very robustly constructed, with every single prop an… (more)

Escape Entertainment: Bank Heist

London, Apr 2016

This room stood out for the sheer crazy number of keys involved – when you’re used to getting excited over each hard-won key, it’s entertaining to have such a profusion of the things.

For a heist theme I’d point players to Enigma Quests or maybe Clu… (more)

Mind The Game: The Crazy Prof

London, Apr 2016

While there’s not a great deal that was stand-out or unusually creative about this game, it’s a solid escape room with decent puzzles. The theme and story are fairly minimal, but it’s one I’d comfortably recommend and expect players to enjoy.(more)

Enter the Oubliette: Escape from New Pelagia

London, Mar 2016

It is a tragedy that this room had to close after losing their venue, since it was probably my most highly recommended escape room – fingers crossed they manage to re-open somewhere else.

The immersion and attention to detail was at a whole differen… (more)

Handmade Mysteries: Lady Chastity’s Reserve

London, Aug 2015

Instead of trying to escape, you’re trying to retrieve a bottle of wine; while that makes little practical difference, it’s nice to vary the genre a little. The room is one of the physically smallest I’ve done, though we had a team of five and it fel… (more)

Hell in a Cell

Bristol, Nov 2016

Hell in a Cell is a room for a large team, and makes heavy use of darkness and atmospherics. The puzzles would be mostly pretty easy in a brightly lit room… but they’re mostly pretty easy anyway, because the staff push you hard in the right directi… (more)