Escape Reading: Kidnapped

by Escape Reading (website)

Queens Walk Unit5, RG17QF

Reading

2-6 players

60 minutes

You wake up in a small darkened room. Nobody can clearly remember it all seems so blurry.

You realise you have been Kidnapped.

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BioGila rated this:

Played: 21 Nov 2024 Team size: 7 Time taken: 47 Outcome: Successful escape!

cleverimmersivegreat hosting👻scary

An interesting escape room with a logical story and interesting clues, our host Lara was very nice and made sure we all had a good time.

EugeniaM rated this:

Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!

clever

BubbleAndSqueak experienced rated this:

Played: 26 Aug 2018 Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!

Really good! An amazing number of rooms, hidden in ingenious ways. Creepy theming, but not scary.

Theming: 9/10
Puzzles: 9/10
GM: 7/10
Value: 9/10
Fun: 9/10

Overall: 8/10

SupertrampEcho experienced rated this:

Played: 20 Jul 2024 Time taken: 50 mins Outcome: Successful escape!

originalstory-drivengreat hosting

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jakea256 expert rated this:

Some great ideas throughout this game and a really wide range of puzzle types. The room is looking a little tired but game play still works well.

Anonymous rated this:

trash

🦡cipherdelic virtuoso rated this:

Played: Aug 2023

Thomas James rated this:

Played: 12 Dec 2023 Team size: 2 Time taken: 47:56 Outcome: Successful escape!

JoeRaymond experienced rated this:

Played: 15 Dec 2017 Team size: 5 Outcome: Successful escape!

cleverimmersivegreat hosting

My first room! Great game.

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The first of the two horror themes we tried at Escape Reading's central branch was Kidnapped, which avoids outright scares in favour of building a subtle creepy atmosphere. (For those who hate jump scares, there should be little to worry about here.) There is little preamble in the briefing or the website's description of the room: you've been kidnapped and imprisoned. But as the game progresses the style of the decorations gives a vivid impression of your captor, with some later puzzles making ...

I’d probably class this as quite a traditional escape room, with some traditional but satisfying puzzles. It starts off dark but soon lightens up and becomes a fun place to explore.

Kidnapped was a well balanced room in the heart of Reading that would be absolutely perfect for a larger team of 4 or more, perhaps even made up of folks who have never done an escape room before – since it contains a little bit of all the best puzzles you typically see in an escape room! Good puzzles, nicely decorated, and absolutely amazing customer service from our lovely GM Julia!

Escape Reading isn’t just what dyslexic kids tried to do in primary school, it’s also an escape game based out of a large town in Berkshire. I’m opening the review with a pun because it’s a pretty hard game to write about. Here is how the website sets it up:

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