by The Escapement Margate (website)
65 Northdown Rd, Cliftonville, Margate CT9 2RJ
2-7 players
Languages: EN
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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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A fun, but largely not too challenging room. Perhaps a few more puzzles would've been nice, but the immersion and hosting makes up for it.
Great adventure! Really enjoyed the theming and clever well thought out puzzles
Great room, with some puzzles and ideas id never seen.
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.
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!
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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...
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!
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