Locked In A Room Milton Keynes: Parallax

by Locked In A Room Milton Keynes (website)

Savoy Crescent, Theatre District, MK9 3PU

2-6 players

60 minutes

2 copies

The time-travelling super genius, Professor Pottenger has been kidnapped by unknown assailants! The assailants hideout has been located but questions still remain… Where is Pottenger? Who kidnapped him? Who do they work for? Enter their hideout and obtain the vital intelligence needed to unearth this peculiar mystery, before it’s too late!

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BubbleAndSqueak experienced rated this:

Played: 16 May 2019 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!

DopamineDino rated this:

Played: 25 Feb 2023 Team size: 4 Time taken: 59:27 Outcome: Successful escape!

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Philip & Gemma rated this:

Played: 18 Nov 2017 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!

great hostingenjoyableplain

We won't waste your time rewording something that already exists, as Toby in the EtR pro review below has hit the nail on the head.
Puzzles made sense, theming nothing to write home about, enthusiastic hosts.

Brian experienced rated this:

Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!

reviewed in Bristol

Laura Knight expert rated this:

Played: 16 Oct 2024 Team size: 2

Perfectly good game. A couple of clues left us a little confused even after we solved them. Would recommend for beginners and team building sessions.

reviewed in Longleat

SupertrampEcho experienced rated this:

Played: 5 Sep 2024 Team size: 4 Time taken: 40 Outcome: Successful escape!

reviewed in Bristol

Izy Rhodes experienced rated this:

Outcome: Successful escape!

story-driven

We had a nice time in this room. Some good puzzles that I still remember today. Story was the focus which was nice and we enjoyed the setting too.

reviewed in Longleat

madhatter rated this:

Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!

story-drivenoverpricedvery difficult

Some bits were confusing. One bit we knew exactly what we needed to do, but took forever to do it and were becoming frustrated because we couldn’t reach! Only just made it out! We all had fun

reviewed in Bristol

JoeRaymond experienced rated this:

Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!

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In enthusiast discussions, Locked In A Room is a company that rarely gets mentioned, and for good reason: enthusiasts are absolutely not their target audience. Their high-capacity branches with multiple copies of each game room are set up above all for corporate outings, and their games fall into that middle ground where they're not notably atrocious nor sufficiently high quality to stand out.

Parallax was the third of their rooms I'd tried, and it followed the style of their others: a strictly...