by Escape In Time (website)
Wentworth Street, E1 7SA
3-6 players
60 minutes
4 copies
Beneath the dark streets of London Town lies an old film studio, lost in time, waiting for you to release its secrets.
Once locked inside Secret Studio you’ll have just 60 minutes to solve its fiendish puzzles and escape. Stay calm, keep your wits about you and you might just escape the cutting room floor!
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HazelChester rated this:
☕Joe Brown expert rated this:
Played: 8/2/20 Team size: 4
out there experience - jump scares and theatre made this stand out from your average room. definitely for seasoned escapers, a proper adrenaline rush with great props and intense moments. a great story and theme.
Roory experienced rated this:
Played: 23/01/2016 Team size: 6 Time taken: 52.08 Outcome: Successful escape!
Barry Hammond expert rated this:
Played: 13/10/2018 Team size: 4 Time taken: 50.1 Outcome: Successful escape!
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😺Lianne experienced rated this:
Played: 11/02/2018 Team size: 5 Time taken: 59 minutes Outcome: Successful escape!
Fantastic room for start to finish. From arriving at the secret door, to talking to the gamesmaster, to the room itself and the debrief. A lot of love and attention has gone to making this challenging room. Loved the set design too. One of my all time favourites.
Seven Of Diamonds experienced rated this:
Played: 2023 Team size: 2 Time taken: ~60min Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulimmersivegreat hosting😨creepy
abooth expert rated this:
Team size: 3 Time taken: 52 Outcome: Successful escape!
originalcleverimmersive
Took us a while to get going but it was a really fun game with some great jump scares.
kman expert rated this:
Played: 13 Jun 2015 Team size: 6 Time taken: 54m 59s Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivegreat hostingintense👻scary
Played this game as one of the taster sessions.It was one of the most original, exciting and memorable escape games I've ever played. Writing this review in 2022, but I can still remember the story, and how the game panned out and have highly recommended it to many, many others. Not for the feint-hearted (including myself), but honestly, having set zero expectations helped, as there was huge sense of euphoria when we managed to escape, like no other time I have since experienced in escape games. I've since heard that the game has changed since it moved from its original location in Holborn so would love to try it out again
jakea256 expert rated this:
cleverstory-driven
Some really great unique moments in this game with a Tales of the Unexpected vibe throughout. Brilliant host Andrew too!
Ben Franklin rated this:
Played: 26 May 2019 Team size: 5 Time taken: 1hr Outcome: Successful escape!
value for moneyfunny👻scary
We've probably completed about a dozen escape rooms so far, and this might be the best. It's hard to talk about it without spoiling it, but this room is tons of fun. Great puzzles, story, production design and surprises. We hired 2 rooms and we each had slightly different experiences (although I do know our other friends had some technical issues with theirs).
Highly recommend this room to anyone looking for an hour of fun with friends.
(NOTE: We did the 'Impossibly Difficult' level and found it fine)
Highly recommend this room to anyone looking for an hour of fun with friends.
(NOTE: We did the 'Impossibly Difficult' level and found it fine)
Chris Metcalfe experienced rated this:
Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivegreat hostingepicquite difficult
Anonymous rated this:
Played: 14 Apr 2019 Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivestory-drivengreat hosting👻scary
I went to Secret Studio with two friends. We all had a lot of experience with escape rooms (probably did at least 45 between the 3 of us) and chose the impossibly difficult flavour.
Compared to other rooms, this escape room doesn't have that many puzzles, and some of them didn't link that well or could be stronger. Throughout the whole experience, we actually tended to over-complicate things, being used to more complex puzzles. That being said, we still enjoyed this room a lot. I think the atmosphere and the twists made up for the puzzles. It's definitely a good escape room, especially for first timers - with a few tweaks, it could be great for people who are more seasoned.
Our game master Laurence was very good at interacting with us - he clearly was very attentive to everything we were doing and never disclosed too much in his clues, which is something that has been a problem in other escape rooms, so we really appreciated his diligence!
Despite its flaws, I would recommend this escape room to anyone, preferably in smaller groups of 3 or 4.
Compared to other rooms, this escape room doesn't have that many puzzles, and some of them didn't link that well or could be stronger. Throughout the whole experience, we actually tended to over-complicate things, being used to more complex puzzles. That being said, we still enjoyed this room a lot. I think the atmosphere and the twists made up for the puzzles. It's definitely a good escape room, especially for first timers - with a few tweaks, it could be great for people who are more seasoned.
Our game master Laurence was very good at interacting with us - he clearly was very attentive to everything we were doing and never disclosed too much in his clues, which is something that has been a problem in other escape rooms, so we really appreciated his diligence!
Despite its flaws, I would recommend this escape room to anyone, preferably in smaller groups of 3 or 4.
Dan Getliffe experienced rated this:
Played: 21 Oct 2023 Team size: 4 Time taken: 61 Outcome: Successful escape!
clevergreat hostingquite difficult👻scary
Really enjoyable room - and surprisingly scary! Some great jump scares in here (although I'm not sure how much was added for Halloween)!
I thought this was actually quite hard, hence the minimum three players. Puzzles were varied and required different thought processes, and fit the theme of the room well. Story was interesting too, and the host set the scene really well for us.
Minor niggles was one of the first puzzles not being particularly clear in terms of what to do, and an annoying red herring (although is quite funny when revealed). A really good experience!
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This room was a cut above the rest from the moment we arrived. Set up and run by enthusiasts from an actual film studio, the props and theming were outstanding and the room has a couple of moments in particular that really stand out.
One puzzle was fiddly and frustrating - although we'd missed a clue that would have made it much more approachable. Nonetheless, this is without doubt in the top rank of London's escape rooms.
Outside the room We visited Secret Studio during their preview period, where they offered a 50% discount in exchange for spending 10 minutes talking about the room afterwards. As the exitgames blog said at the time – they give you a discount for that?! I'd have happily spent half an hour talking to them… We arrived at
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It’s true what they say, you never forget your first, and fortunately for us that was ‘Escape in time’. A really solid game with some very memorable moments.
We head to a TV studio in East London to find out the production values of this escape room.
The last Escape Room we did on our One-Day-London Escape Room Tour was a mystery-themed game located in an old film editing studio. To keep the thrill level high, we made our appointment at “Secret Studio” in London shortly before midnight. Let’s start our Review. Secret Studio London, England Location: Wentworth St, London E1 7EZ, UK Games: Secret […]
An exciting room that stepped up the tension well through the game, with a few standout elements making the room easy to recommend, though let down a little in places, mostly by poor organisational choices and the occasional unthemed puzzle.
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- Best UK escape rooms 2023 by Escape the Review virtuosoThese are the 100 highest rated escape rooms in the UK, as of 31st Dec 2023, based on combined ratings from enthusiasts, bloggers and experts - every game here comes highly recommended.