by Escape Hunt Oxford (website)
Westgate Centre, OX1 1TR
2-6 players
60 minutes
Step into the Wild West, where the tiny frontier town of East Victoria is celebrating the discovery of gold.
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based on ratings from 50 users
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One of the worst we have done as a team. Some puzzles were physically broken and thr majority of the puzzles were not intuitive or mechanical They were activated by the gamesmaster from a separate room. This means you don't get thr satisfying clunk of locks opening or magnets uncoupling. It made the whole experience feel like we were performing rather than solving puzzles.
The whole experience felt like it was made to cash in on the escape room buzz rather than embracing what is so fun about them.
Escape Hunt Liverpool is such a great addition to Liverpool ER scene. While I have the tendency to avoid chains when booking escape rooms, I will highly recommend Escape Hunt Liverpool to anyone looking for an escape. There is real attention to detail and immersion that other Escape Hunt in the country didn't deliver. Escape the Wild West is no stranger to this, the atmosphere, the décors, the puzzles, the flow and logic were spot on. You do feel like you're in in to find the gold and escape in board of the District 1 train. Our game master, Sarah, was a true ER enthusiast (so enthusiastic that she forgot the hot drinks we ordered :)), she stayed in character throughout the whole game with a perfect American accent, we did feel like we were after Bill French's gold. I would highly recommend the room but would not suggest it for less than 3 people as we escaped with 6 seconds left on the clock after receiving 2 clues. The whole flow made sense but a couple of puzzles felt as if we didn't have all the instructions necessary to solve, as if they made sense to the designer when it was first created but the logic would not easily come to mind to most players. Another one was solved by us by skipping a step which didn't give the same feeling of completion as it was designed to. And finally one puzzle had a typo that made me wonder if it was a clue... We did feel the pressure on the last puzzle, so much so that we did sit down to recover from it! Another brilliant room. Thank you for bringing Escape Hunt to Liverpool.
Some broken tech, tired puzzles and it was soooo HOT!
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Picking a game for the afternoon slot at Escape Hunt's Oxford branch was a choice between pirates and cowboys, and we chose the latter. Wild West casts you as lucky but imperilled miners: having discovered a rich seam of gold in a remote and dusty frontier town (incongruously but conveniently already formed into bars), you now need to make a quick exit by train before the local gangsters arrive to take it all from you.
That premise is used for an unusual scoring system. You need to find as many...
Escape Hunt, Oxford impressed us with one of our favourite games to date. Since playing ‘Escape the Wild West’ we’ve been and played all the other rooms at Escape Hunt, Oxford
See also
- Escape Hunt Manchester: Escape The Wild West (Manchester)
- Escape Hunt Reading: Escape The Wild West (Reading)
- Escape Hunt Edinburgh: Escape The Wild West (Edinburgh) (closed)
- Escape Hunt Liverpool: Escape The Wild West (Liverpool)
- Escape Hunt Watford: Escape The Wild West (Watford)
- Escape Hunt Kingston: Escape The Wild West (Kingston upon Thames)
- Escape Hunt Lakeside: Escape The Wild West (West Thurrock)
- Escape Hunt Birmingham: Escape The Wild West (Birmingham)
- Escape Hunt Norwich: Escape The Wild West (Norwich)
- Escape Hunt Bournemouth: Escape The Wild West (Bournemouth)
- Escape Hunt London Oxford Street: Escape The Wild West (Central London)
- Escape Hunt Milton Keynes: Escape the Wild West (Milton Keynes)