Games in Birmingham by Escape Brum
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Really fun room, not to difficult but very satisfying to work out. Great theme with some genuinely creepy moments.
Bloody love this room! We beat the labyrinth and collected enough bonus points to get on the leader board. A really clever room where the main objective is pretty straightforward but the secondary challenge is a real head scratcher.
Very logical, well styled and lots and lots of puzzles. Fantastic, I can see why it is rated so well.
A really fun heist style room with one main objective and a side quest (where no hints or help is available) for added fun. We managed both tasks with a few minutes to spare.
Great hosting from El, some new tech items which I haven't seen used in a room before. Great fun and a sense of achievement when we finished it all.
Really unique escape room, we escaped as a team of 2 with 26 tokens/points.
Loved having the second objective to make it harder and maximise playtime. Nearly completed both!
We really enjoyed this highly rated escape room. It was really fun to have a different type of game where just escaping isn't the only goal. We managed to find 30 tokens which we were pretty pleased with. Really fun and value for money in that you really do get a full hour's worth of entertainment. And then all the groans and facepalms from us all as the missed tokens were revealed after we'd finished 🙂
A fun heist concept with layers and a variety of puzzle types. We completed the primary objective in 48 mins, but the secondary objective took us right up to the finish line! A tricky room with great hosting 🙂
A good room with a variety of puzzles and solves. Our poor searching lead to a slower than desired time but it was still great!
We played this as physical rooms were reopening post pandemic. This is a mystery-driven room with a lot of nice moments.
We’ve frequently been recommending it friends and family who wanted an escape room experience in Brum because this is such a solid room. It’s perfect if you want a challenging and satisfying mystery story with exciting puzzles.
Not fully beginner-friendly due to the level of difficulty, but this is suitable for people with at least ~10 rooms under their belt.
This is the first game designed by this company and we played it as a fairly beginner team at the time. It was a neat experience that is designed to teach you the ropes of solving puzzles.
It’s great for those who want to learn some automatisms in rooms, especially as you get to work with a lot of code breaking strategies.
However, it can feel too easy for more experienced teams. It is also too tricky for completely inexperienced teams. So, it’s all about hitting the sweet spot here.
This is a heist room where your sole mission comes with an extra side mission. We've all done heist rooms, so you know that the more you can secure, the better it's going to be in the end. This is a diamond heist. I wouldn't say this is my favourite room at the location, but I am not a fan of heist themes to start with.
Once again, the theming is spot-on with clear connections to the Jewellery Quarter, which is great with this company. The owner ran our game, so the hosting can't be faulted here.
I found the room busy in terms of puzzles display and routes (especially the second part of the room), which is pretty common for heist themes. Perhaps, it was a little too busy due to the space restrictions, so this can be very challenging for beginner teams.
I'd say, it's best suited for experienced teams. Also, you probably want a group of 4 at least to tackle all the puzzles in the second part of the room.
We booked the Labyrinth pretty soon after the room was launched. It's a lovely game, and as usual for this owner, it ties back into the Brum's narrative beautifully.
The game flow is logical and puzzles, while challenging at times, are fun, inventive, and diverse. I really enjoy that if you've played some of the earlier rooms at Escape Brum, you can clearly notice how the owner is constantly improving the quality of its room build and design.
Ideally, you want to spend as long as possible in the room because the true purpose is to collect as many items as possible within the time. There's a great mix of thinking and doing, which keeps you on your toes. For Brummies, this is a treat: some nice aha moments too, and the constant tongue in cheek approach to the bull of Birmingham.
It's a nice family-friendly room, which kids gathering items while parents solve. It can be a little tricky for beginners to collect all the items, due to the sheer volume of puzzles, but the escape room remains accessible and feasible for all ages and levels. All things considered, a lovely challenge for families, friends, and couples too.
Considering we were a group of 5 enthusiasts, this room really kept us busy until the final second. There were some incredibly clever puzzles along the way, which we loved, but might be pretty tricky for beginner escapers.
Tokens - 33/34 Silver, 1/3 Gold
Our ratings:
Theming: 9.5/10
Puzzles: 9.5/10
GM: 10/10
Value: 11/10
Fun: 9.5/10
Overall: 99%
Really fun room - good story which was well explained. The room was well hosted with the couple of clues we had being pointers rather than giving anything away. Nice mix of things to do. We managed to complete the primary and secondary tasks with a few minutes to spare - all four of us really enjoyed it. We'll be back! 🙂
More traditional game, our gm was lovely(he is the owner and creator)
Quite an unusual room, clearly designed for experienced players. i would not recommend this for first time escape roomers, there are some unusual puzzles and unusual rules to the game that made this very difficult and at times, quite frustrating to fully 100 percent complete. Theming is not amazing but its well worth doing especially if you are a more experienced player.
A more traditional escape room, but still really well done. Lot's of different types of puzzles that flowed really nicely. Would recommend.
A really well done "Jewel Heist", we really liked to 2nd main challange. Some tricky puzzles that got us head scratching.
A solid room, well themed, great puzzles and great hosting. We would highly recommend.
Some really clever uses of tech in this game that I hadn't seen / didn't know about before! It's a duel objective game but both are perfectly manageable within the time. Puzzle quality was as good as ever!
Now quite an old game but still lots of fun to play. Really enjoyed the final end to the narrative for this game!
Great variety of puzzles and some fun takes on classic styles that you might have seen before
Love a collect as much as you can game and enjoyed finding some of the sneaky hiding spots for the tokens! We finished with 37/40 points and were pretty chuffed with that! Great puzzles and lots of creativity and love has gone into building it. Easily my favourite at this venue!
Fantastic experience. I do love games that have side objectives.
We scored 36, just missing out on one more gold and two silver.
I tend to dawdle along in escape rooms to avoid escaping too soon but this game kept us busy right down to the last minute.
Would recommend it for newbies and experts alike.
The set and puzzle design is absolutely beautiful. There is plenty to do in this room and the variety of puzzle types really sets this game apart from your ordinary escape room. We very nearly got the lot as a two. Great hosting
A beautiful set with a good variety of puzzles and great hosting. Some clever little touches too.
Excellent game with plenty to do and great hosting. Highly recommend
We absolutely loved this game! Lots of creative puzzles including some we haven't seen before. It will likely keep you busy right up until the last second of the hour! I love physical puzzles and this room was great for that.
Would recommend for newbies, experienced escapers, couples, groups, families. Do ask about physical accessibility if you aren't sure.
Lee is a great host and we had loads of fun. We will be returning.
Really enjoyed the side quests in this one, and the puzzles are really engaging, although maybe a little mismatch with the theme sometimes. Also the set is not quite as immersive as it could be, but very good room apart from those niggles!
Loads to do and some extremely clever puzzles, some damn near impossible to get but none unfair. As with most collection rooms, frustrating when you finish and find out what you missed, but thoroughly enjoyable and you'll fill an hour in there easily.
This was the first game at this venue and it does show to a degree. That's not to take anything away from the puzzles of the game! Normally I hate map puzzles but this was a clever idea and I think worked well. Theming is good and the puzzles, whilst old in concept can still trip you up and send you down the wrong path if yo are not paying attention. Recommend you play this first as a warmup game!
Can you rescue a cat from a witch? There's a lot to like here, theming is adequate for the environment and some of the puzzles are cleverly done (there's one I should have seen, I really should have seen it!). There feels like there's a difficulty curve as we raced through the early sections only to get bogged down in the latter stages of the game. Clue system was delivered by a TV and was great throughout.
This is my favourite of the three games at this venue. The game is a set of puzzles connecting various rooms in order to score 'coins' and to also free the Minotaur. There's a lot of puzzles here ranging from dexterity, search, physical and one of the best water based puzzles I've sen in a long time. Our host was Ian (the owner) who GMd us brilliantly throughout. The theming here isn't as strong as in Mystic's cabin but it definitely scores on the ideas and gameplay front.
Loved it! Such a variety of puzzles including ones I’ve never seen before, and really fun interactive elements. Really enjoyed collecting the tokens as well as completing the main escape objective. The room was so well designed and you could tell a lot of time and energy had gone into building each element, as it was themed so well. Great friendly hosting, and we enjoyed that the host took us round the room at the end to show us where the tokens were that we’d missed and how to solve the puzzles we’d missed too!
An excellent room that is both linear and non-linear. The objective is not just to escape but also to collect tokens that are hidden in the room. There are a total of 40 points available of which we got 35 points. You have to escape within the hour but frequent updates on the time remaining help ensure that you escape on time whilst doing the remaining searching.
The puzzles to escape are fairly easy to solve and we required no hints, the challenge of this room comes from finding all the tokens some of which are devious but rewarding when you find them.
There is an amazing mix of tech and physical in this room which wouldn't be out of place in the Crystal Maze, there are some unique puzzles that I haven't seen before and everything feels fair and there is a good mix of back and forth between the different sections.
There are also a few moments that don't necessarily click whilst playing the game but thinking about them afterwards caused the a-ha moments and a good laugh about how you missed it in the first place.
Hopefully this company gets more recognition as it certainly deserves it.
Brilliant room with lovely hosts!
Standard office set up, with a second room to be unlocked.
Lots of items to find and use and not always immediately obvious what you need something for! We had cracked one clue, but then we came to need it we forgot that we'd come across it as there's lots of bits and bobs to figure out and use.
The clue system of the screen is very handy - I sometimes find walkie talkies etc difficult to hear or understand so to have the clues on screen was very handy (although the only clues we used were because we just hadn't searched thoroughly enough!)
None of the puzzles were too tricky but would still maybe be a little too much for a complete newbie.
Can't wait to go back and do their second room!
Played alone - good fun, plenty to do but very simple in terms of design and puzzle.
Liked this a lot - cool space with lots to do. Ran it alone and was able to get out in good time.
This was brill. Lee, who runs the place, I think designs them himself. His such a nice guy. This is his second room, and the second one we've done. It was great. It's a very spacious room! As Escape Rooms go. It was nice and light. I get irritated in darker rooms. If the challenge is to be able to read something, I feel like I've been cheated. This wasn't like that.
What I love about Lee' s rooms is that you seem to be able to take so many routes. I much prefer that than having 5 or 6 people all looking over each others shoulders, trying to all get a look in and having to do everything one at a time in order. This wasn't like that at all. I really enjoyed it. Can't wait until he opens a third room!
Venue: the outside of the building had plenty of signage so you knew where you going, unlike some that is just a doorway in amongst a crowded area. The waiting area was spacious and felt really relaxed. They even have a map on the wall to put a pin in to say where you’ve cone from which is a really nice touch and there were flags from all over the world the GM had a jug of water waiting to give us refreshments on arrival which was also a really nice touch
Room: A typical office based scenario where the scenario kept up with the objective of the game. Don’t expect anything spectacular or different in this room however. If you’ve played escape rooms before, you’re likely to have come across most of these puzzles, however, everything was well signposted and no need for leaps of logic.
Despite us flying through the room, we had a great time in there and there was plenty to do. For a team that’s only done a few rooms, it may be challenging
Overall, it was a great room by an independent GM and worth giving a go if you’re ever passing by
I found this game really immersive as a result of care in the set design. It felt really authentic. The GM was really lovely and the story was well thought out. Overall, really enjoyable. I can't wait for this company to open new rooms!