by Compendium Escape Rooms (website)
1a Crompton St, BL9 0AD
2-6 players
60 minutes
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based on ratings from 35 users
combined with 6 pro reviews
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We loved the searching side of this game. Lots of content to get through. Great friendly hosts as always 👍🏻
This was the first game we played at compendium and it really set the tone for the rest of our visit. What a room! This is probably one of the most immersive rooms I've ever been in. It really felt like you were in someone's house and it was super creepy! We absolutely loved this game - the puzzles were amazing!
Great theme with some decent puzzles.
The best themed room by compendium. Everything in the room worked with the theme. Puzzles matched the theme, decor matched and the whole story worked. Other than UI-55, this is my most recommended room at compendium. Loved the end, a Haha moment.
Really clever set design and interesting puzzles. Well worth a visit
Absolutely incredible theming. Honestly breathtaking. It was like being in a film set. Our host Alex was so lovely, you can tell they have a real passion for ER’s. The puzzles I wouldn’t say were particularly hard, but everything made perfect sense in the setting. Creepy/ horror theme done right!
The room was one of the best decorated rooms I’ve seen. It felt so real to a point where it was genuinely terrifying. A lot of searching is needed in this room but there are also a lot of original puzzles that were great to solve. Is an extremely well designed room but I wish I had known how scary it was as I may not have booked. Our host was great and you could tell how passionate he was.
Great owners. Very welcoming and friendly.
Highly immersive game. Good fun!!
A few spooky and jumpy bits along the way but I wouldn't say it's a scare room.
Can't wait to play the newest game on our next trip.
Another great room, really enjoyed the clever puzzles and use of space.
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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
Loved it - loads of fun, beautifully designed and a great host.
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!
A fantastically themed room with full immersion, however, BE WARNED if you are a "Search-a-Phobic" as there is so much to take in in, in all the rooms and a lot of searching is required.
The puzzles were on theme and some things I've never seen before.
I wouldn't pass this game up and can't wait to go back and try their "Part 2" they are creating.
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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...
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.
