Deadlocked Escape Rooms: The Phoenix Research

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

122 Castle Hill, Reading RG1 7RG

Reading

2-6 players

Languages: EN

60 minutes

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Professor Bradley Samwell, the head of research at the Wexell Corporation, has gone missing. His bizarre disappearance coincides with the completion of some rather questionable, but valuable research on a project called ‘Phoenix’. The Wexell Corporation has asked your team, with your very specific set of skills, to investigate the missing employee and retrieve the research. But what if there is more to this research, and this company than lies on the surface?
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Overall rating

Rated between 3.5 and 4 out of 5

based on ratings from 8 users
combined with 5 pro reviews

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Player reviews

nearlyflippin experienced rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Played: 26 Aug 2018 Team size: 5 Outcome: Successful escape!
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Solid room with a nice twist (variation) later in the room which we haven't seen anywhere else. Theming was appropriate but nothing outstanding. A nice room transition and some enjoyable puzzles. 

MightyMidds experienced rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
Tim Cooper expert rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!
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Charly expert rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 5 and 5 out of 5
Brian experienced rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Team size: 5 Outcome: Successful escape!
Roory experienced rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 29/06/2019 Team size: 4 Time taken: 38.51 (+15.17 for extended ending) Outcome: Successful escape!

Solid room, solid puzzles - interesting storyline that doesn't get lost in the background., including good use of immersive storytelling techniques (live videos etc, updating you on mission progress, pinches of humour thrown in for good measure)

Furthermore an excellent & friendly host & owner who seems to be pushing some interesting themes, i look forward to trying out Deadlocked's further rooms!

Max out a team at 4, I feel any more would be overcrowded. Long time enthusiasts should ask for the extended edition.

Barry Hammond expert rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 10/06/2018 Team size: 4 Time taken: Outcome: Successful escape!

Reviews by escape room review sites

Located on the west side of Reading, Deadlocked currently have two games. Their first is Phoenix Research, named for the documents you’re trying to retrieve: the critical notes of a missing scientist employed by the dubious Wexell Corporation.

If you put a lot of weight on visual presentation of a game, you might be unimpressed with Phoenix Research. The setting is a scientist’s office, and the decor is suitable – which is to say, fairly mundane, built using mostly standard escape room fare suc...

In places this was a very hard room, at times it was frustrating, but in the end it was fun. A lot of time was spent on immersing you in the story, and the ending was something a little different

6.5 / 10
We head to Reading for the weekend to see what their escape rooms have in store for us. First up, we need to investigate a missing person.
This is a hard one to pin down. Here’s the problem: The Phoenix Research does a couple of really cool things. The sort of things that would elevate a four-star room to five stars on my ratings scale. The problem is, underneath those it’s not a four-star game. It’s not even a three-star game. It’s actually quite bad.
7.0 / 10
This room is kind of intriguing. The overall theme, a missing professor, is not particularly unseen in escape rooms and most of the puzzles are variations on things you may have seen before, although they still require you to search and work things out of course.

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