The Escapement: The Pit

By | March 20, 2019

by The Escapement Margate (website)

65 Northdown Rd, Cliftonville, Margate CT9 2RJ

Margate

2-7 players

Languages: EN

90 mins
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The Earth is faced with a severe crisis, and you are mankind’s last hope.

As some of the best miners in the world, you’re being sent deep underground on an extremely critical mission.

Can you work as a team and save the world from utter destruction?

Do you have what it takes to save the planet in this journey to the centre of the earth?

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Rated between 4 and 5 out of 5

based on ratings from 63 users
combined with 7 pro reviews

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maxcarnag3 rated this:Rated between 4.5 and 4.5 out of 5
value for moneyimmersive

Great adventure! Really enjoyed the theming and clever well thought out puzzles

Peter Hoare experienced rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 4 Sep 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 72 Outcome: Successful escape!
originalclevergreat hosting

Great room, with some puzzles and ideas id never seen. 

Anonymous rated this:Rated between 5 and 5 out of 5
Played: 1 Aug 2024 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulimmersivestory-driven
essentialatom experienced rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 29 Jun 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 58:55 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivegreat hosting

A very nicely designed room. There's a satisfying flow from one puzzle to another, some nice attention to detail (such as a communication device being provided for you at just the point you'll need it), and tasks that engage you both physically and mentally. And our host got involved to ramp up the intensity towards the end too! Great fun, highly recommended. 

🤘The Pick of Destiny expert rated this:Rated between 4.5 and 4.5 out of 5
Played: 10 Jun 2024 Team size: 2
immersivegreat hostingintense

This experience was made all the better by our fantastic GM, Tom! The game stands on its own as an excellent room, however, the hosting really put the cherry on top of the cake! We loved it!

DypanicDuo experienced rated this:Rated between 4.5 and 4.5 out of 5
Played: 28 Feb 2023 Team size: 4 Time taken: 43:00 Outcome: Successful escape!
AJ’s expert rated this:Rated between 4.5 and 4.5 out of 5
Played: 22 Aug 2020 Team size: 2 Time taken: 43:34 Outcome: Successful escape!
originalimmersivestory-driven
A really immersive build and mix of puzzles we hadn’t seen before! Possibly the most immersed we had felt in any game as we played our way through! Even after 280 games this still sits firmly in our top 10! A must play if you’re in Margate! 
madhatter rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Played: 28 Apr 2024 Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivestory-drivengreat hostingquite difficult
We had high expectations for this but left feeling flat. The theming/set is fantastic. Hosting is really good, although the intro is perhaps longer than it needs to be and had lost us a bit. This wasn’t so much a game of finding and solving. Personally we felt it would be more suited to a team of 2 as often there was nothing for the rest to do. The first half of the game was better than the second. And the end we found a bit of an anti-climax
LouT rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
originalimmersivegreat hosting
Really enjoyable game. Our host was great, loads of enthusiasm.
escapeartist1212 expert rated this:Rated between 4.5 and 4.5 out of 5
cleverimmersivestory-driven
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While I guess by normal standards it's pretty weird to go to a seaside town and spend the whole day indoors, the quality of the five games I played across the two escape companies in Margate was so high that I had no qualms about missing the beach. Of those five, The Pit is the newest game from The Escapement and was the one I found most impressive of all, an ambitious subterranean adventure with a Hollywood disaster movie plot where you need to descend into the depths to restart the rotation of...

A truly impressive game that will immerse you in the world they've created. With a visually astounding set and a cool story concept, it was only the puzzles where this room showed its weakness.
Even when you're receiving the briefing for this room you know it is going to be something special. This isn't just a 60 minute experience, this is a game changer.

From the moment you descend below ground, the room provides complete immersion. We played this with four people, and there was plenty to keep the 4 of us busy and the puzzles were mostly very “hands-on”, which totally suited the scenario and also were a lot of fun! We always love it when a room has something we haven’t seen before and plenty of the puzzles here were completely new concepts to us, which we loved!

If you can overlook the fact that you'll be going "thousands of feet deep" through a short flight of stairs , the game area looks quite realistic (...) Even though there are plenty of old-fashioned puzzles to solve and locks to open, the overall series of tasks the team needs to complete will feel quite organic, and the game had a few surprises in store for us.

What a room The Pit is. Great immersion, great puzzles and great hosting. Loads of surprises and a great room!

An outstanding room with great puzzles, atmosphere, theming and game master makes The Pit an unmissable game. I’m delighted to give it a rare five star rating. You should travel to play this game.

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