Escape Hunt Reading: Worlds Collide

By | March 20, 2019
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by Escape Hunt Reading (website)

Kings Walk, 19-23 King St, RG1 2HG

Reading

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 Montague’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 Doctor’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 “upgraded”.
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based on ratings from 40 users
combined with 4 pro reviews

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DoctorPB experienced rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
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
JoeRaymond experienced rated this:Rated between 1.5 and 1.5 out of 5
Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!
broken techplainunoriginalquite easy
Emma Macedo experienced rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Played: 24th October 2022 Team size: 3 Time taken: 44:22
broken techpoor hosting

I just couldn't get into this one. Some of the clues and puzzles didn't seem very clear on what you had to do. And it took us a good 10 minutes to even get started. Another one of the not so great ones by the Escape Hunt franchise.

Lee Andrew experienced rated this:Rated between 1.5 and 1.5 out of 5
Outcome: Successful escape!
illogicalunoriginal
MightyMidds experienced rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Team size: 4 Outcome: Failed 🙁
broken techpoor hosting

TV monitor timer broke within a few minutes, GM said they would prompt us/give time checks. They did neither until 10 minutes to go, at which point we had no chance of completing. Such a shame as we then missed out on the big finish

Mike S expert rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Rhea Eris experienced rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 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!
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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 ...

reviewed in Oxford
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reviewed in Bristol
7.1 / 10
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.
reviewed in Oxford

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.

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Can you help the Dr protect the universe???

reviewed in Birmingham

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