Agent Brains

Played this twice, what a clever original concept. Escape room meets heist! Highly recommended!

We thought this game was much more logical & hence it fitted better with the way our brains worked than Back to the Future did.

We really enjoyed it and found ourselves very absorbed in our escape. We liked that there weren't too many padlocks, no frustrating red herrings, a nostalgic soundtrack and a good combination of different puzzles, some of which were very original.

There was one specific puzzle I didn't enjoy, but I this was due to a personal preference, rather than an issue with the puzzle itself.

Ellie was a very enthusiastic host, thank you.

We'd happily recommend this room.

So brilliant!!! Totally unexpected ! 

Firstly, we both loved the theming of this room in terms of the set, props & music. Being able to choose which mixtape to listen to was an original idea & my friend loved the chance to play on a space hopper again. So we had a lot of fun.

The escape room aspect itself didn't quite live up to what we were hoping for. There were too many red herrings, so it was a frustrating challenge to work out what we actually needed to use. There were no links between some of the codes we came up with and which locks they were for, which meant trying some of them on multiple padlocks which felt like an irritating waste of time. It was a padlock-heavy room. And on a few occasions there didn't seem to be a clear correlation between items & what we had to do with them/how we had to use them.

We needed a few hints in the last 10 minutes to help us finish in time, but I feel that was more due to the illogical nature of the room causing us to spend a lot of time trying to find what we needed amongst the red herrings, rather than the puzzles themselves.

Our host Ellie was very friendly, enthusiastic and helpful. After speaking to her after escaping we've decided to revisit Agent Brains to see if a different room might be a better fit for us. But this room was good fun, nostalgic (for the one of us that was born before the 80s!) and would be ideal for children (with guidance), families or even just friends wanting to go back in time.

A wonderful 80s themed escaped room with a fantastic set and a range of great puzzles.

A lovely lab themed escape room with fantastic set design and puzzles.

A very immersive and exciting escape room with an element we had not seen elsewhere. Incredible idea. Stacks of fun puzzles.

A massively fun escape room with lots of themed puzzles and an exciting set.

Really fun start to this game which lets you work well as a team. Very fun theming and exciting puzzles. Wonderful hosts.