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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based on ratings from 79 users
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The look and feel of this room is perfect, I can scarcely believe it’s 10 years old. Our host took the time to point out the various bits of maintenance he had done over the past few days. You can tell it’s a real priority to keep everything looking pristine, which is really appreciated. It’s very immersive. Some decent puzzles though the story takes priority for this room in particular. Some of the tech broke but I guess these things happen from time to time.
Ive tagged this as ‘overpriced’ for two reasons. Firstly, the website boasts a ‘limited time offer’ that all rooms cost a flat fee of £90 regardless of team size. Having checked my records, as a team of 2 I’m pretty sure this actually makes it the most expensive room we’ve ever done by a decent margin. Secondly, the advertised 90-minute duration is misleading. This is a standard length escape room but they allow up to 90 minutes to make sure all teams get to escape and experience the whole room. If you’re a team who usually comfortably escapes within 60 minutes, you will do so here too.
Although apparently 10 years old, this is a very well constructed, and beautifully set escape room, starting even from the intro briefing room, where we felt the earth move beneath our feet (similar to London residents feeling the effect of the Underground). Barry (our man on the inside who bore a striking resemblance to Games-Master Matt), promoted us to the top team after the unfortunate demise of a previous team, owing to the dangerous, even treacherous hazards of descending to the centre of the earth.
The Pit allowed us to rank our team members (most important=Boss, most dispensable and cutest), which itself was hilarious. The rule set: no red herrings, single use clues etc shows mature game design experience that was very appreciated.
The team and in particular Matt’s passion for Escapement shone through : congrats and well done! Muchos Gracias!
Very atmospheric and some fun features.
One of the best games for visuals
There are a few tricky bits in the cave, trying to work out colours and TNT. Overall good fun and a really immersive set.
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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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