Escape Hunt Bristol: Worlds Collide

By | March 20, 2019

by Escape Hunt Bristol (website)

Cabot Circus, BS1 3BX

Bristol

3-6 players

Languages: EN

60 minutes

closed
Wheelchair suitable - contact the venue for details
The Doctor needs you: a tear in space and time has been detected, and the Cybermen are about to break through!
Step into the future. Enter the offices of ChronosCorp HQ, where eccentric billionaire Alastair Montagueโ€™s efforts to develop commercial time travel have caused a tear in the fabric of space and time. The Cybermen are ready to take advantage and attack Earth.
You, the Doctorโ€™s friends, must investigate the incident. The remains of Montague, his prototype time engine and the extensive collection of time-related artefacts acquired over the course of his experiments, are all that you have to work with.
In just 60 minutes the Cybermen will break through. The fate of the universe is in your hands. Take too long and the human race will be โ€œupgradedโ€.
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based on ratings from 39 users
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TheCLAMS expert rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
no notepad

We liked the first part of this room but the second part wasn't as good. There was a puzzle that was very heavy and my team mate had to complete it as I couldn't manouvere it. We also could have done with something to write notes on as there was a word puzzle which I was struggling to remember in my head. Bit of a let down 

Escape_2023 expert rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
great hostingoverpricedunoriginal

Could of been any kind of proffessor game, not very original. 

Anonymous rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
beautifulhi-techclever
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 2 and 2 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Failed ๐Ÿ™
story-drivenbroken techoverpriced

I was super excited to finally play this room being a big Doctor Who fan but unfortunately left sorely disappointed. On entry, the room looked worn out and you could see signs of quick fixes which diminished quality. Throughout the game, we found puzzles didnโ€™t make much sense or flow to each other, often needing to ask for a clue to point us in the right direction. A couple of puzzles had issues including the final step, which due to being broken meant be failed the room!

Considering itโ€™s a licensed BBC game, I had hoped that the standard of the room quality wouldโ€™ve at least been kept high but clearly not. Definitely draws people in on the premise and then fails to deliver. 

On a side note, the hosts were both lovely and the venue is nice, just not the room for me!

โ˜•Joe Brown expert rated this:Rated between 2 and 2 out of 5
Played: 7/12/19 Team size: 4
Some promising ideas and a couple of wow moments, but quite a few broken puzzles, and suffers from the same flow problems other Escape Hunt Rooms I've played has - you have to be guided to find out what you're meant to be solving and you don't necessarily know whether you've solved it, leaving you unsatisfied. However, it did have a few unique puzzles and nice ideas.
DoctorPB experienced rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Farmergeddon Outta Here experienced rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Played: 27 Nov 2022 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
originalfunny
From memory, this was a well themed room but felt like it could have been so much more. The clip in the beginning of Jodie Whittaker's Doctor was brilliant, but other than that we thought it was a pretty standard room. 
dak515 rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
Jess Phillips rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Played: 20 Jan 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 60 mins Outcome: Failed ๐Ÿ™
hi-techbroken techpoor hostingquite difficult
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 5 and 5 out of 5
Played: 11/06/2022 Team size: 2 Time taken: 58:42 Outcome: Successful escape!
hi-techcleverstory-drivenquite difficult
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While there are any number of escape rooms that carefully skirt intellectual property laws with thinly veiled 'homages' to popular franchises, fully licensed games are much rarer, and so it was with much fanfare that Escape Hunt announced their official Doctor Who game Worlds Collide. It differs from their other offerings in requiring at least three players and costing a higher ticket price. (I didn't see anything in the room that was impossible to do with two people, so if you're okay with the ...

We help the Doctor save the World from a tear in the fabric of space and time which is allowing Cyberman to invade in this official Doctor Who escape room.

I have to say I'm slightly ambivalent - on one hand, the room is filled with obvious and not-so-obvious references, including a few voice-overs by Jodie Whittaker herself. But as a room, it's not particularly impressive nor clever. Even the inventory control system is fairly basic - images are pasted directly in your team's shared Google Doc. The room "does the job", for sure, and the theme ensured I'd have a good time, but that was about it.

Can you help the Dr protect the universe???

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