Escape Reading: The Vampire Slayers

by Escape Reading (website)

Queens Walk Unit5, RG17QF

Reading

2-6 players

60 minutes

Legend states that the Vampire Lord and his clan awakes every thousand years to appease their thirst for blood.

Can you vanquish his heart in 60 minutes to save humanity ?

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EugeniaM rated this:

Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!

immersiveintense🧟terrifying

I’m a coward so I found this very scary but great

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StaceyF expert rated this:

Played: 9 Mar 2024 Team size: 3 Time taken: 54:15 Outcome: Successful escape!

😨creepy

🦡cipherdelic virtuoso rated this:

Played: August 2023

🔐James Bloodworth expert rated this:

Played: 26 Aug 2023 Team size: 2 Time taken: 00:49:57 Outcome: Successful escape!

great hosting😨creepy

Relatively straight forward creepy horror game, you can choose to either a have a "more scary" or "less scary" experience (I can't remember which one we chose in the end). Puzzles are relatively straight forward and feature a typical combination of search, logic and visual.

Mrs G expert rated this:

Played: 10 May 2023 Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!

great hostingintense👻scary

We chose to tone down the scares in this game but it still had us on edge throughout. Fantastic dramatic sounds and effects as well as puzzles and a few great scares along the way!

2For1 experienced rated this:

Played: 6 Nov 2022 Team size: 2 Time taken: 48:50 Outcome: Successful escape!

originalgreat hostingintense🧟terrifying

Good puzzles and story line, very intense! 10/10 would Recommend!

GoodToKnow rated this:

Played: 11 Mar 2023 Team size: 3 Time taken: 57:37 Outcome: Successful escape!

funnyimmersive👻scary

One word - jumpy! We were in hysterics not wanting to go into parts of the room anticipating another scary moment. Lots of fun and great theme. Matt was a great host too.

Loobleflop rated this:

Played: 6/10/2011 Team size: 4

immersivestory-drivenintense👻scary

Jump scares, great sound effects and puzzles! Super immersive defo recommend!!!!!

jakea256 expert rated this:

😨creepy

A few jump scares throughout the game but can be toned down by request. I enjoyed the use of space in this game and felt immersed within the narrative.

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Horror rooms are a varied lot, and can be anything from puzzle-driven games with a few blood splatters and fake severed fingers to set the scene, through to full on terror experiences where solving anything is complicated by flickering lights and chainsaw-wielding maniacs. Both of the games at Escape Reading's centre-of-town branch are horror themed, and of the two Vampire Slayers is the one that sets out to scare you. But while it doesn't hold back at trying to make you jump, it's not at all gr...

This wasn’t the hardest or scariest of games, but all the puzzles clicked and we flew through it. Probably not a challenging room for experienced players, but it was a solid and fun game that we were glad to have played.

The Vampire Slayers is designed as a scary game – it’s not a full on horror experience, but it’s a step up from many of the “scary” games we’ve tried. It’s worth noting at the top we were playing a slightly neutered variant of game, because of one of our team not being great with scary stuff but still having a compulsive desire to play every escape game possible. We did get a walkthrough of what we missed though.

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