Escape For Real: Portal

By | March 20, 2019
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by Escape For Real (website)

Unit 42, Interchange House, Newport Pagnell, MK16 9PY

Milton Keynes

2-8 players

Languages: EN

60 minutes

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You are scientists of a secret research laboratory studying the paranormal phenomenon that lie beyond normal scientific explanation. A few days ago the professor with whom you work suddenly disappears.
You receive a cryptic message, it turns out the professor has been working on a portal into a parallel world, and he has managed to activate it!
You find yourselves in a secret laboratory fraught with danger. Operatives are chasing you from another world. Who are they? Where have they come from and what are they planning to do with you? Don't let them catch you!
Delve into the depths of the unknown and surrender to your fear
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Rated between 3 and 3.5 out of 5

based on ratings from 4 users
combined with 3 pro reviews

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Adam experienced rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Played: 12 Apr 2023 Team size: 3 Time taken: 36min Outcome: Successful escape!
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David Bodsworth experienced rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 1 Oct 2019 Outcome: Successful escape!

I think this was a good fun game. All I remember was trying to win sweets!

Anonymous experienced rated this:Rated between 2 and 2 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Failed 🙁
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Game itself was enjoyable (some puzzles slightly dodgy but no major problems), but ruined by the offer of a discount if we gave a 5* review.. bribing people into giving good reviews is not the way to go ...... poor show. 

Brian experienced rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5

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Any company that opens a sci-fi game named Portal is pretty much guaranteed to catch my attention, so when we found ourselves in the vicinity with a couple of spare hours I grabbed the chance to book in. Escape For Real’s room has no connection to the computer game with which it shares a name, except perhaps some smooth silver laboratory aesthetics. Your task is to investigate the technology left behind by a mysteriously vanished scientist, and perhaps use it to follow him into a different world...

7.0 / 10
We enter a secret research laboratory to teleport into a parallel world and rescue the professor who created it.

The unstable gateway is now in danger of exploding, so teams need to explore the professor’s lab, get to the parallel world and activate a gizmo to prevent the big boom.

This isn’t a peak intensity disaster scenario though

Escape for real is based just outside Milton Keynes, in Newport Pagnall. It is based in a small unit in a business park in the edge of town. The staff were friendly, there is a small office/waiting room where they introduce the game. We were given a piece of laminated paper to read out the back story, while the member of staff did one final check of the room and then we went on our way.

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