Escape Peterborough: Contagion

By | March 20, 2019

by Escape Peterborough (website)

23 Church Walk, PE1 1SB

Peterborough

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:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!
Kerrie Wykes rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 19 Mar 2020 Time taken: 47:10 Outcome: Successful escape!
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 1.5 and 1.5 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
broken techpoor hostingunoriginal
Jordan Brown expert rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Played: 7 Aug 2018 Team size: 2 Time taken: 58:43 Outcome: Successful escape!
Tim Cooper expert rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Team size: 2 Time taken: 35:00 Outcome: Successful escape!
plainunoriginalquite easy
Brian experienced rated this:Rated between 2 and 2 out of 5
Team size: 5 Outcome: Successful escape!
jonnyb12345 rated this:Rated between 2 and 2 out of 5
Played: 31 May 2025 Team size: 5 Time taken: 33:30
originalquite easy

We had a good time but it felt a little too linear - there were some idle moments for the group 

amandaann1986 rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Played: 23 Jun 2024 Team size: 3 Time taken: 59:01 Outcome: Successful escape!
NovemberGolf21 expert rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
liam and rosie experienced rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Played: 15 Mar 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 46 Outcome: Successful escape!
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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...

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

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! β€“ 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.

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