by Lucardo Manchester (website)
Virginia House, 5-7 Great Ancoats Street, M4 5AD
2-6 players
Languages: EN
60 minutes
Overall rating
based on ratings from 12 users
combined with 6 pro reviews
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Fun, but fairly easy. Not as immersive as Lucardo usually is.
#18
We went and did The Orphanage, Espionage and then Gem Runner. This room for us was middle of the road, not bad but not too exciting. It didn’t feel like there was much pressure to escape, and from what I remember we had a decent amount of time left. Not a scratch on the University of Magic at the same venue.
A decent room but a couple of puzzles had multiple interpretations which isn't itself a problem but, when coupled with no indication of which puzzle belongs to which lock, leaves you having to try so many different combinations it becomes a bit tedious.
Over Enemy Lines
Another wartime operation, and my third visit to Lucardo.
Story
Infiltrate an enemy bunker to retrieve classified documents stolen from The War Office, but get the job done before the guards change.
Puzzles
They maintained a connection to the theme of the room throughout and ranged from child’s play to one that was fiendishly difficult without the help of a hint!
Mise-en-scène
Decent props, mundane surroundings. A bit of camo netting wasn’t enough to sell me WW2 bunker realness.
Final Comments
One of Lucardo’s weaker rooms. It’s generic and unremarkable, but we still had a good time. Our group didn’t pay as much as this on our visit, but is it worth the current price tag of £25.00 per person? Absolutely not.
Reviews by escape room review sites
Having rattled through the two Lucardo games that we'd booked and finished them well ahead of schedule, the staff kindly managed to squeeze us into a third room despite it being a busy Saturday daytime. Espionage is set in 1938 and has you stealing classified documents from an enemy bunker; this translates into a room of puzzles designed around WW2 era military equipment and related props.
All the Lucardo games I've seen are quite non-linear, with a lot of padlocks to open and a mix of puzzles ...
This room certainly won’t give you any surprises, nor will it wow you, but it is still a decent room. For us though, this was the weakest of the rooms at Lucardo (Manchester) - but they had set the bar high.
