The Escapement: Pirates of Polaris

Gorgeous pirate-themed set which was really immersive. There’s a moment where I thought for a second that we’d genuinely stepped outdoors! Great attention to detail and really nice puzzles. 

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. As a team of 2, we escaped in less than half that - teams of 3 or 4 could do it even more quickly. The room was excellent but we’ve done other excellent rooms elsewhere that were genuinely 90 minute experiences for a lot less money. 

The set is awesome, some of the puzzles are very hard but overall a very fun game 

This one can be tricky.  It's story is well thought out and the set makes it really immersive, even above deck!

Fantastic set and some great puzzles that we really enjoyed working through! 🙂

This is a good solid room.  Its nicely themed and very playable.  Everything fits in and makes sense how its done.  Its quite linear so sometimes there is a little wait if your group is any bigger than 3 or 4, I definitely would'nt advise it for bigger groups.  Gary was a great GM. 

My major gripe was that its just too easy/short, you don't expect to leave a 90min game in 31 mins, even a 60min game would annoy me if I left half way through it.  I expect to be entertained or the full slot not to be all done really early, especially as we had driven for 2hrs for it!