CryptX

A unique theme that was executed perfectly and made this room very memorable. Lovely space well-used throughout. The puzzles were logical and challenging, letting everyone get involved.

A tricky escape room with puzzles to keep you busy for the whole time! Massive variety of puzzles to solve throughout the room. A unique theme.

A true joy of an escape room. A unique and excellent theme that was festive and fun. Puzzles were varied and logical. The experience was immersive and challenging whilst remaining solvable. 

A fabulous immersive escape room with a wonderful and unique theme. Very memorable. Logical puzzles that got the whole team involved.

Another great room by Cryptx, a lot of well themed puzzles that kept us busy. They squeezed us in very last minute, which is always nice when an escape room will go out of their way to host. Worth a visit.

This is a good all-round "witchcaft/tarot/mystic"-inspired room with a decent set of puzzles, and a nice system for you to track your (fairly linear) progress towards your goal, albeit with a little twist surprise right at the end of the game. 

A few elements seemed a little tired, e.g. text a little worn away, frayed edges on props, and one key puzzle was not functioning correctly at all (apparently due to heavy-handed team who had been in recently, although reading reviews here it seems like others have also experienced malfunctioning props in the past, so perhaps not an isolated incident). But, overall, it kept us busy and entertained throughout, and the GM hosting was great.

I adored the novelty of the theme, and the puzzles were all given a Shakespearean flavour. 

That said, the overall decoration felt a little bit basic and temporary - with quite a few text-based clues simply printed out and stuck up on walls. I appreciate that the owner is a small independent business, and this allows them to rotate rooms quickly and open new games with a short development cycle, but it did make it feel a little like a pop-up game rather than anything you could describe as "immersive". There was one more impressive set piece, but I believe this had been repurposed from an earlier game, and it also didn't quite function correctly leading to the GM having to come in and fix it mid-game, which is far from ideal. We also struggled with one other physical prop that appeared to be in need of a little maintenance.

Other than that, puzzles were solid, and hosting was excellent. 

This game felt very homemade, but not in a charming or intentionally rustic way. It came across more as if little thought or care had been given to the overall appearance of the room. Most of the attention seemed to have gone into the puzzles, and even those were not particularly impressive.

The room itself was dirty, with paint splatters across the floor. Items that were not meant to be moved were attached with Velcro rather than being properly fixed to the walls or applied using something more suitable like transferable vinyl. Everything was laminated, which made the design feel cheap and uninspired. The ending was underwhelming, and several puzzles did not flow well or make much sense in terms of what we were meant to be doing or why.

There were cobwebs throughout, and the space was generally dull and uninviting to be in. Visual elements like character portraits could have been presented with more impact, framed in gold and given an effect to make them look hand painted, for example.

It was also easy to spot remnants from the previous game that once occupied the room, which further undermined the experience. The finale felt flat and unexciting. Even the basics, like the way shelves had been cut and put together, appeared rushed and poorly finished. With some poor signposting along the way.

Overall, the room was boring, messy and lacking in any real atmosphere or coherent theme. It felt like a collection of ideas thrown together without any real polish or purpose. This was especially disappointing as the owner spoke so confidently about other games he played, which raised our expectations. One entire room felt completely unnecessary and added nothing to the experience.

It desperately needs more attention, care and effort. Sadly, I cannot give it a higher rating when even the most basic standard of cleanliness was not met. 

I've added .5 to the rating as the customer service was friendly, and there was no reset errors within the game. 

Another great room from CryptX. Jolyon is both a brilliant designer and host. His rooms always have original themes with well thought out puzzles which often make us scratch our heads, but always have logical and satisfying answers.

This is the latest room by Cryptx - what must be said about this company is that they cram so many puzzles into their rooms it really makes it worth it, and having the longer time is a great plus. The guy running the room was great as always. They are a smaller company but their love of puzzle design is clear. Also the rooms are always extremely well themed and they do their research! Would recommend checking them out and also doing their other room tarot 

Another clever escape room by Crypt X. Good mix of puzzles and a nice twist at the end. Our (usually great) host was distracted so missed the cues to trigger different parts of the experience for us, which was a bit disappointing. And one or two puzzles didn't work properly, so not their strongest room.

Really enjoyed chatting with the team both before and afterwards to get us excited about their upcoming plans. We'll definitely return for their new room.

Good festive fun and the pantomime theme was a refreshing change from the well-used Christmas escape room theme of helping out Father Christmas or his elves. The hosting was great (as it always is at Crypt X) and we enjoyed the mix of puzzles.

Good room that presents you with so many puzzles as you walk in! We used most of the time, and a fun twist at the end!

Good room with so many puzzles! Gave a variety of essential puzzles and then extra puzzles for if you have the time! We only managed a few of the extra ones sadly, but the host was great and talked through the ones we'd missed at the end.

We booked last minute as we were stuck near Cambridge due to train issues and the owner was very accommodating with fitting us in and working around us time-wise, with our host Buzz being also very friendly and welcoming. We’re experienced escapers preferring non-linear rooms, and found that Tarot was well themed and fit the bill - the puzzles made sense and the room flowed nicely with both things we’d seen before and ideas that were quirky. A few bits of set felt a little flimsy around the edges, but it didn’t detract from the puzzles themselves. There was one logic puzzle we got genuinely stuck on, but people who are more logic minded might be fine. Overall we enjoyed ourselves, recommended.

Another strong room from Crypt X. Jolyon is a great designer and host. We'd been putting off playing this room as didn't have much prior knowledge of the theme but needn't have worried as that wasn't necessary. It was very atmospheric with good theming and puzzles that tied into the theme well. We really enjoyed it.

We booked a few weeks before we attended and it was cancelled by the hosts (through no fault or issue, just staffing) but the theme sounded really interesting so we re-booked. Unfortunately didn’t make use of the theme very well.. more generic magic/witch themed than Tarot. One of the puzzles which could’ve been really good didn’t work, one puzzle was very confusing and we could hear the hosts discussing how much of a problem it causes and how they need to change it. The final ‘puzzle’ is very confusing.. the concept is good but the execution could do with some work. 

Nice theming, some solid puzzles and a unique twist at the end which was a nice change! Lovely GM hosting us and plenty to keep our team of 4 busy. Only downside is a couple of items that were a bit on the red herring side that two of us wasted time on, and one puzzle that is a good idea but was made overly complicated by a seemingly important component that ended up not being needed. 

Plenty in this room to keep us all busy and a nice variety of different puzzle types. Got hung up on one of the puzzles due to us interpreting the material we had as pointing to a far more complicated puzzle than it actually was!

Very well thought out premise. All the puzzles fit the theme really well. Friendly staff

Enjoyable game with great signposting and lots of puzzles. 

Really enjoyed this game and the different levels of completion. Lots of locks and great signposting. 

Another great room from Crypt X. A seasonally themed room with clever puzzles which kept us guessing. There's a lot to do for just two players so this might be better for larger teams. We found one spatial puzzle impossible to solve and even the host who had created it struggled to explain it afterwards so I don't think it should have been included. Oh and the room was very cold too. But we thoroughly enjoyed our afternoon and were proud that we managed to solve all but one of the puzzles. I look forward to returning to Crypt X when they've opened their new room.

I found this room had a very weak story and just seemed to be 6 separate puzzles. As a team of two we found solving enough puzzles within the time limit tough but we got there.

Enjoyed playing this room as my first with my now regular team-mate. Particularly liked a clever reveal and the puzzle with the direction padlock. Struggled a bit with the casino table as gambling is something I know nothing about so although no prior knowledge was needed I found those puzzles quite daunting. The hosts were great and even gave us an extra 10mins so we could finish our game. Thank you.

A fun experience for our first escape room. Felt very welcome & laughed a lot (mainly at our own incompetence). I even returned a second time (with a more logical teammate) to see if we could escape with even more diamonds as I felt there was still much more of the room and its puzzles to explore. Now I'm hooked on escape rooms. Thank you.

Some really clever puzzles here and a lovely GM to accompany it. A few parts were a little worse for wear but I believe they have plans to replace these items. Decent room worth playing!

Nice story with some really clever and original ideas. Nice use of tech with the eraseable electronic notepads that are actually useful as well instead of being a forced gimmick. Despite a struggle towards the end we enjoyed the room and found it a good level of challenging. It wasn't excessively difficult but you definitely need to be switched on going into it. We had to ask for a lot of clues!

Overall we really enjoyed this and it was definitely one of the toughest rooms we've done to date. We look forward to coming back for more!

Noises kept making me jump.