Escapism Plymouth

Another cracking room from the team at Escapism! Always lovely to catch up with the team 

Fun room and always lovely to pop in to see the team in Plymouth! 

Another cracking game from the team in Escapism! A must when visiting Devon

Always a great time at Escapism, another cracking room and they are a must if visiting Devon! 

Great rooms and even better owners

A decent creepy/horror room. Some interesting puzzles but again, a little bit of trial and error for code -> lock. I think some improved sign posting would make for a more seamless experience. 

Still very enjoyable though 

A decent room with some interesting tech and puzzles. We found it a little frustrating at times, when there was no indication which padlock each code was for. This lead to us having to try multiple codes on multiple padlocks until one opened. 

We finished the first objective in 32 minutes- it was the challenging second objective that ate up the remainder of our time but i liked the optional extra challenge. 

Escape room for noobs. Host was a little trigger happy with the clues.

Great room. Took some beginners to this room and they loved it. 

Update, 17/10/23. Since completed the room in 52 minutes.

The only Escapism room we've failed.  

However it was very clearly human error and not a bad room - Escapism call this their easiest room however I disagree, Forge was a lot easier. It's a Hansel and Gretel themed room, you start separated with one in the oven and have to work together to get the one in the oven out. There are a good variety of puzzles, but we found a couple of them a little too tricky, which led to our demise! This is certainly not the room being too hard - we were clearly having an off-day and would love to try again. There are a variety of logic, maths, matching up and lock puzzles to get through and as always the GMs are enthusiastic, timely with hints and make you feel welcome. 

Of all their rooms, this one felt a little weak. It felt like it was made more for kids and the décor was a little off-centre - it looked like they let a couple of newbies have a go. That being said, the optional added difficulty was novel and we found the puzzles to be quite linear and easily worked through, we finished the first part of the room in just over half an hour and then took ten minutes for the optional extra. We didn't feel overly challenged by this room but I imagine it will be a good family friendly or starter room. 

Good, fun room with some interesting puzzles. One puzzle I'd not encountered before and I'll take that lesson with me, this was one of my preferred rooms here.

We played this in the dark with torches as part of their Hallowe'en promotion. This made it much more fun and added to the theme of being in a dark place at night, looking for clues. It was a fun room and nearly took us the hour (while we like to finish in a good time, we also like to get our money's worth - as an actress said to a bishop). The puzzles were -based in the main and a couple weren't entirely relevant but not detrimental to the game. Good, fun room.  Wasn't hugely difficult but provided a good enough challenge.

Looks absolutely fantastic! We really enjoyed how many puzzles there were and didn’t find that we were ever stood around too long.

Absolutely loved Legacy, so many puzzles! A really non-linear room which meant we were able to separate and just work on our own or join up to tackle harder ones. Loved this room, really gave me the puzzle rush! 

This was my least favourite room at Escapism. The set dressing was weaker than the other rooms which look fantastic. It feels a bit rushed and has a lot of LEDs on show, which don’t help the immersion. I felt there were a lot of padlocks so we kept trying multiple locks every time we found a code. 

The extra puzzles are the end is a nice touch but we were left frustrated that one of these puzzles activated something which wasn’t obvious. Once we finished the host came in and we tried to speak about the room and they just didn’t really react and just asked us if we wanted a photo which was disappointing as usually the GM is always up for a chat about things. 

Overall a brilliant room that I would definitely recommend! A few too many 4 digit padlocks to cycle through knocked half a star off for me personally but it didn't take away from the fun experience this was! The optional puzzles at the end of this room mean it's great for both experienced and new teams 

I was very excited to play this room as like the idea of the team being split in two (two in the oven!), and the theme. However it just looked really poorly made, especially the ‘oven’ area. Some puzzles were nice but others were annoying and unintuitive. The host however was great and only clued a few times when needed. Very average.