by Escape Reality Birmingham (website)
60-62 Constitution Hill, Jewellery Quarter, B19 3JT
2-6 players
60 minutes
Overall rating
based on ratings from 14 users
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I don't find Escape Reality particularly atmospheric and the staff are too busy to dedicate a GM to any group.
As this is a scary room, we did ask how scary and our GM was very descriptive, which wasn't what I wanted. He gave too much away, but in a confusing way that actually resulted in us wasting time some times doing what we thought we were supposed to do, based on the hints that we'd had. It would have been much better if he just hadn't said anything.
Overall, the story was good, the execution was OK, the set was quite flat and sparse but we did have a good time. A couple of red herrings threw me, so if you find there's something you can't figure out, try moving on to something else because you might be trying to find something that isn't there.
This is one of those 'creepy' games which isn't quite as scary as you might like! We sailed through the first two thirds of the game, then got hung up on something daft and wasted lots of time. The room was quite well dressed, compared with some, and there had been some effort to carry the theme throughout the room.
Really enjoyed the set-up but the low light levels make all the searching a bit laboured... Saying that, it really got going after we got past the first room and we enjoyed the last few puzzles.
Boring, too easy and not enough puzzles.
Reviews by escape room review sites
A well-decorated and challenging room, Enigmista lures you into a false sense of confidence in its first half. The second half becomes much more difficult and requires more lateral thinking than our inebriated brains could handle.
