Mythologic Escape Rooms

The Grunch is a fun, linear, lock-centric Christmas game that looks great, and I can easily imagine it being a huge hit with families. For enthusiasts, there’s nothing wildly new here, but I appreciate the logic of designing festive rooms that families can actually complete. Mythologic’s Christmas room last year—Sneaky Santa—was one I absolutely loved, but even our very experienced team of four left it a little tight. That is over at Margate now at CtrlAltEsc and I highly recommend it for anyone up that way. 

We went in slightly wary after being told we’d “be fine,” given our well-earned reputation for overthinking and missing the obvious. In the end, we were simply a bit dim on one puzzle and lost our 30-minute escape because of it. Textbook us.

I’m really looking forward to Mythologic’s new horror room, Lillith, when it opens next year.

Accessibility: Other than three or four steps up into the room, there are no issues to flag.

I now post mini-thoughts and photos of rooms on Instagram as @thegreatstacecapist.

This one was quite inventive and had some fun pop culture references sprinkled throughout. It’s a little too easy and super linear, but it had some fun moments and some decent theming (I think this part could be improved slightly though). Good fun!

Some really impressive tech in this game and a lovely variety of puzzles to go with it. Different narrative to the usual pirate games too