The Escape Room Manchester: Prison Break

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1-7 Chapel Street, M3 7NJ

2-5 players

60 minutes

closed

You are locked in a maximum security prison and are awaiting your execution. You were framed by a serial killer and you are now facing charges for a murder. There were multiple attempts to escape from this prison but many people failed and most inmates were either killed or recaptured while others disappeared without a trace, giving hope to inmates that there are ways to escape! You have sixty minutes to escape from the premises and free yourself before the prison guards return.

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TheEscapeBoomers expert rated this:

Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!

overpricedplainunoriginal

Just no. Abysmal.

thehermit experienced rated this:

Time taken: 20 Outcome: Successful escape!

illogicalplainunoriginal

After playing a few of the of their other rooms, we thought we'd give prison break a try.

Honestly it was probably one of the worst games we've ever played, and we escaped within 20 minutes with three of us. At the time of playing this game we hadn't really played many other escape rooms so we weren't really experts or experienced, or it just felt like there wasn't enough to do in the room for barely a team of three.

grogu42 experienced rated this:

Team size: 3 Time taken: 20.00 Outcome: Successful escape!

plainunoriginal

Terrible game. Bog standard puzzles, the 3 of us (At the time fairly new to escape rooms) got out in 20 minutes. We picked this one as it was marketed as a 4 out of 5 * room....Having played the other 4* rooms we were fine with that...We felt robbed

Anonymous experienced rated this:

Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!

poor hostingunoriginal

Mark Greenhalgh expert rated this:

Played: 24/01/15

reviewed in Preston

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reviewed in Bangkok

Kieren experienced rated this:

Team size: 2 Time taken: 15 Outcome: Successful escape!

broken techplainunoriginalvery easy

reviewed in Stoke-on-Trent

🔐James Bloodworth expert rated this:

Played: 22/05/2021 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!

reviewed in Barrow-in-Furness

🦡cipherdelic virtuoso rated this:

reviewed in Stoke-on-Trent

Arjay Henshall expert rated this:

Played: Team size: 2 Time taken: 54 Outcome: Successful escape!

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Poor clue system when the GM comes in and asks where you need the help. No paper given despite it being useful for some of the puzzle. Dark for dark's sake.

This is much more of a 'normal' room than the two others we did with this company, both in terms of difficulty level and style.

It's a relatively small escape room, and both our teams finished it quickly, so experienced teams may find it on the easy side. But it was a fun one to do, and a pleasant change after the frankly rather stressful Secret Lab room!

reviewed in Tallinn