The Escape Key: Plague

By | March 20, 2019
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by The Escape Key (website)

60-62 St, Andrews Street, NE1 5SF

Newcastle upon Tyne

2-8 players

60 minutes

Overlooking a real-life plague pit, enter our plague room.
Can you outwit the crazed Plague doctor and escape before the horror of the Black Death gets you?
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Overall rating

Rated between 2.5 and 4 out of 5

based on ratings from 6 users
combined with 2 pro reviews

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Team Jophie expert rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Played: 29 Nov 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 45:43 Outcome: Successful escape!
😨creepy
gamesmaster13 experienced rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Played: 4 Jun 2025 Team size: 4 Time taken: 48:59 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersiveillogical

Mismatched puzzles that did not fit the theme of the room. Less logical than some of their other games.

MaliceInWonderland rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!
👻scary
Dan Taylor experienced rated this:Rated between 4.5 and 4.5 out of 5
puzzlebitch experienced rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
👻scary

This is a fairly decent room, with some good puzzles, scary moments and interesting history. However, the story is quite convoluted and for more experienced teams, there were a limited amount of puzzles we hadn't seen before. Would definitely recommend Witch over Plague!

🦡cipherdelic virtuoso rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5

The favourite game of half of our team, although I was having alot of deja vu (having played a game VERY similar to this in Blackpool), this is another excellent game from Escape Key with well thought out puzzles with good immersion and excellent room production. 

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I was expecting something that was more of an escape room combined with a history lesson. This was not that, but it was still good fun, although we did definitely start to feel the pressure towards the end!

We really enjoyed Plague. It was the most fun of the rooms we played during our trip to Newcastle, and at Escape Key, and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it to anyone. For folks afraid of jumps scares – there are a few small ones, but it isn’t by any means a ‘scary room’, just more on the side of eerie. In terms of difficulty, despite the website saying it’s hard, we found it a comfortable ‘medium’. If you’re in Newcastle and only have time to play one room, this should be very high up on your list!

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