EXIT Newcastle: Volatile Laboratories

By | March 20, 2019
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by EXIT Newcastle (website)

67 Westgate Road, NE1 1SG

Newcastle upon Tyne

2-6 players

60 minutes

You’re trapped and infected in a top secret laboratory. Will you be able to find the antidote, and EXIT?
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Rated 3.5 out of 5

based on ratings from 5 users
combined with 3 pro reviews

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helscape experienced rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Team size: 2 Time taken: 32mins Outcome: Successful escape!
quite easy

A fun room with one physical puzzle in particular being something we’ve never come across before and really enjoyed. But the rest of the puzzles became quite predictable, especially if you’ve played other rooms from this company previously.  Several chambers to work through. The theming started off really well but lacked a bit in the final ‘main’ chambers.

TICTACC experienced rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Team size: 4
originalgreat hostingfamily friendly

A good few years ago since we played this but have very fun memories! 

great-pan-is-dead rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 5 Apr 2024 Team size: 4 Time taken: 42:44 Outcome: Successful escape!
quite difficult

Rooms were very built very well with theme and immersive (I work in a lab, I'm not sure if that's a good or bad bias). Puzzles felt very integratd into the room, were challenging and the steps to them were quite involved. The use of screens and announcements for hints and timers were really great. Only hinted when were clearly struggling and kept it fun. Drove a feeling of chaos with its story very well, and definitely rewarded paying attention and having a keen eye for the details.

🤘The Pick of Destiny expert rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
immersivegreat hosting
🦡cipherdelic virtuoso rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5

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Two fun games from one of the better companies in Newcastle. Volatile Laboratories was probably impressive in its time but didn't excite me that much while Fiorella's cave was a really good experience let down by a couple of tedious puzzles.
Newcastle is home to quite a few escape rooms and on todays agenda was Volatile Laboratories at Exit Newcastle. The venue is really easy to find and whilst there is on street parking, it's a max one hour stay, we advise that people planning to go find a car park nearby, but it is really easy to walk to. We arrived and were greeted by our host and the general chit chat happened with the usual have you played before. He then said it was time for our room to begin and he showed us into the lab. He explained the room and then shut the door. The screen played and our game begun.
A well designed and fun game that never felt too difficult, but always felt entertaining and amusing.

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