by Pier Pressure (website)
33 Upper North Street, BN1 3FG
2-6 players
Languages: EN
60 minutes
🐶👶The Pavilion Perplex is an escape room game that exudes class! Set inside the Royal Palace in the early Victorian era, this is a sublimely decorated escape room with a wide variety of puzzles and some beautiful secrets and surprises.
Featuring puzzles and games like those found on “The Crystal Maze”, plus many historically accurate facts and period artifacts. Players will have their logic and dexterity skills put to the test to recover the missing petition and save the iconic building.
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based on ratings from 43 users
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Mighty Oaks experienced rated this:
Played: 1 Aug 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 46:20
immersivestory-drivengreat hosting
smudgepuss rated this:
Played: 14 Apr 2024 Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!
great hosting
A very friendly team here, who made us feel very welcomed. We weren't expecting such themed hosting, or the carrier pigeon for clues. A good range of puzzles, although we did have a few places where it hadn't been quite obvious enough to us either that we'd successfully unlocked something, or what we had unlocked. We did have one 'oh you sneaky so-and-sos' moment for something that in hindsight we should have spotted without needing help, but weirdly that just makes it kind of satisfying! There was one more physical skill type task that we did end up doing not through the intended mechanism due to the annoying nature of the noise it made, and (me) just wanting it to stop. But overall a very fun room, with some puzzle mechanics we'd not seen before.
I can definitely see us having a Brighton day trip to do a couple more of their games.
I can definitely see us having a Brighton day trip to do a couple more of their games.
Team Jophie experienced rated this:
Played: 16 Mar 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 32:32 Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulimmersivequite easy
AJ’s expert rated this:
Played: 10 Oct 2020 Team size: 2 Time taken: 46:05 Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifuloriginalgreat hosting
Great game lovely mix of puzzles!
A Blacksmith expert rated this:
Played: 28 Mar 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 26:37 Outcome: Successful escape!
cleverstory-drivengreat hosting
An excellent room with great hosting.
Suzanntelope rated this:
Played: 19 Feb 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 47:44 Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulgreat hostingnonlinear
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🔐SpontaneousIllusion expert rated this:
Team size: 2
originalimmersivegreat hosting
Another game I just really enjoyed and really connected with. Everything just flowed really nicely and you did feel properly immersed into the environment.
🎲A Jones experienced rated this:
Played: 23 Oct 2023 Team size: 2 Time taken: 48:36 Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifuloriginalgreat hosting
It wasn’t hugely different or special but was a solid good fun room. Enjoyed the puzzles and it flowed well. Some clever contraptions in there too.
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As any frequent visitor to Brighton knows, the Pavilion is a flamboyant and florid palace constructed with domes and minarets at a time when the British upper classes were infatuated with anything Oriental. The first game from recently opened Pier Pressure is inspired by the building, both its internal decoration and the moment in the 19th century when Queen Victoria was petitioned to sell the building to Brighton town. The storyline is a mildly exaggerated take on this historical incident, givi...
From the grand entrance right to the finish, a visually impressive game with chunky, thematic decoration. Expect a few weak puzzles but not enough to spoil the experience.
Overall, this is a wonderful game; visually appealing with varied and interesting puzzles, and a clever clue system, but on top of that, it just flowed nicely and had a nice clear finale.
We have to save the Brighton Pavilion in this true story inspired escape room from Pier Pressure.
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