Compendium Escape Rooms: Wrong Turn

By | March 20, 2019

by Compendium Escape Rooms (website)

1a Crompton St, BL9 0AD

Bury

2-6 players

60 minutes

You and your friends are driving along route 66 when you notice your gas running low, a friend suggests to make a turn at the next set of crossroads to see if there is a gas station… you don’t find a gas station but decide to explore the one place you have discovered by taking that WRONG TURN…. Will you escape or will you spend your life regretting that wrong turn?
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samsham experienced rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Played: 16 Mar 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 55:50 Outcome: Successful escape!
value for moneyimmersivegreat hosting
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Played: 29 Feb 2020 Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!
Tom experienced rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5
Played: June 2019 Team size: 2 Time taken: 56.40 Outcome: Successful escape!

Loved this room! Very much liked the theme and the way the room starts is cool too .. definitely gives you vibes of the movie! The progression is great too and felt the pressure as the room opened out! Creepy and a few little jump scares. Great!

🦡cipherdelic virtuoso rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
magicalbacons expert rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
🔐James Bloodworth expert rated this:Rated between 35 and 35 out of 5
Played: 17/06/2021 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
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Being trapped in a serial killers cabin isn’t the best day, I know, it’s happened an inordinate number of times!  This room features a lot of the usual tropes but if presented in an interesting and well used space.
Simon (The Overthinkers) expert rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Played: 30 Aug 2020 Team size: 2 Time taken: 49:50 Outcome: Successful escape!
Mark Greenhalgh expert rated this:Rated between 30 and 30 out of 5
Played: 23/12/18
abooth expert rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Team size: 2 Time taken: 49 Outcome: Successful escape!

Loved it - loads of fun, beautifully designed and a great host.

matt_keds expert rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5
Played: 13 Feb 2022 Team size: 4 Time taken: 44 Outcome: Successful escape!
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#39

Another fantastic room from Compendium!

We visited last month to complete UI-55, so obviously couldn’t wait to return.

The immersion in Wrong Turn is fantastic, creepy at times and a large variety of puzzles, mostly keeping in theme as well. One trick in particular during the first third of the experience was something I’ve never seen before, and the room just seemed to keep going and going!

Would definitely recommend heading to Compendium and taking the day to do all of their rooms! Personal ranking so far would be:

1. UI-55

2. Wrong Turn

3. Bedlam

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In a great example of how not to get your escape room sponsored by the US tourist board, Compendium’s horror room starts with the premise that you impulsively take a side trip into Alabama and shortly thereafter find yourself searching the house of a deranged serial killer. Your task is not just to get out, but to find a can of gasoline for your car plus also the mobile phones of the killer’s previous victims.

Of Compendium’s four rooms, I thought the decor in Wrong Turn was perhaps the most im...

A very well produced set, with fun transitions that capture the feeling of a remote and scary farmhouse. Unfortunately, the number of red herrings, the quantity of searching with little payoff and the simple puzzles left me feeling a little underwhelmed.
A creepy room with good set design and some nicely challenging puzzles. Perhaps a bit gruesome for the family, but those of you who seek out horror rooms will likely enjoy (especially if you get the live actor version)

The third room we did at Compendium was another ‘scary’ room – this time we entered the home of a serial killer. Once again we confirmed there were no live actors or jump scares, but unfortunately, there were plenty of mannequins (which is my specific phobia). The team were great though, and removed what they could, giving my mum a warning of where others were so she could deal with them for me. That aside, this room was fantastically creepy in a different way to Bedlam. Rather than screams, the soundtrack was instead an old fashion song and commercial, and the room and set dressing were just off enough to be unsettling.

An atmospheric and incredibly immersive game that keeps you gripped for your whole time in the room. The creepy theming keeps you on edge for the whole game as you explore many different spaces.

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