Escape Peterborough: Contagion

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23 Church Walk, PE1 1SB

2-4 players

Languages: EN

60 minutes

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The world has been infected with a virus. You have two options; sit around and let it take you or redouble your efforts to retrieve a vaccine from an old medical facility.

In order to get your hands on it, you must find a way to defeat the lock down on the lab.

The quarantine timer is set to 60 minutes, after which the room and all traces of your work will be incinerated. You must do this to save humanity as we know it...

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A Blacksmith expert rated this:

Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!

Kerrie Wykes rated this:

Played: 19 Mar 2020 Time taken: 47:10 Outcome: Successful escape!

Anonymous rated this:

Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!

broken techpoor hostingunoriginal

Jordan Brown experienced rated this:

Played: 7 Aug 2018 Team size: 2 Time taken: 58:43 Outcome: Successful escape!

Tim Cooper expert rated this:

Team size: 2 Time taken: 35:00 Outcome: Successful escape!

plainunoriginalquite easy

Brian experienced rated this:

Team size: 5 Outcome: Successful escape!

reviewed in York

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reviewed in Lincoln

liam and rosie experienced rated this:

Played: 15 Mar 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 46 Outcome: Successful escape!

😨creepy

reviewed in York

gamesmaster13 experienced rated this:

Team size: 5 Time taken: 57:35 Outcome: Successful escape!

cleverpoor hostingunoriginalquite difficult

Some really clever puzzles in this room- we went in the first week it opened, but some tech was already broken 🙁 GM couldn't hear us so kept giving us clues to puzzles we had already done, and at the start, the room just looks like an office space filled with Ikea furniture. It does get better, but it's a shame the same amount of effort wasn't put into the beginning of the room.

reviewed in Ipswich

Dawne20 rated this:

Played: 10 Jun 2023 Team size: 4 Time taken: 56.22 Outcome: Successful escape!

poor hostingoverpriced

We have played a lot of escape rooms and we definitely prefer the independent escape rooms, the chain rooms just don't cut it. We did not get this room and did not enjoy it.

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If you're lucky enough to get a good GM then this is a solid room and one we would happily recommend to enthusiasts

Humanity is once again in peril, this time from an epidemic that's swept the globe and left your team as the last scientists on Earth. Fortunately there is an antidote hidden somewhere in a laboratory, if you can reach it in time.

The Escape franchise has spread to something like 14 different cities in the UK now, with a couple more on the way, so they must be doing something right. I've now played six of their games, and they tend to follow a straightforward format based around a mostly linear...

reviewed in Ipswich

A solid room with some brilliant moments. Great for novices, but still fun for small groups of experienced players.

reviewed in Blackpool

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reviewed in Blackpool

The premise of Operation Contagion is fairly straightforward. There’s a zombie apocalypse sweeping the globe and the world is in lockdown – not too hard to imagine post-2020, hey! – but this laboratory has developed a cure. Great! We’re saved! Only the lab is also in lockdown and there’s just 60 minutes before it self-incinerates. Ahh, not so great.

reviewed in York