Escape Reading: The Vampire Slayers

By | March 20, 2019

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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based on ratings from 26 users
combined with 3 pro reviews

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Ellie Jay Ch experienced rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 19 May 2026 Team size: 2 Time taken: 54 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivegreat hostingintense😨creepy

A solid very satisfying room. The host Jacob was brilliant and clearly passionate about escape rooms.  

We agreed the scare level would be atmospheric and scary with no jump scares - this was perfect and immersive and meant given we are wimps post the reading witch that we could concentrate on puzzles.

The room is padlock based in a very fun way - really immersive and we managed with just one tiny hint. It was as a result very satisfying, certainly not easy but fun to decode all the puzzles whilst having lots of immersive atmosphere 

Definitely recommend it for duos. 

simonevo900 experienced rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 24 Apr 2026 Team size: 2 Time taken: 58 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivestory-drivenintense👻scary

Good scary atmosphere though out in this game with some nice placed jump scares 

Your allways on your toes thinking someone is in the room with you lol 

Some fun puzzles and things to do 

Great hosts 

C-A-Escape rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 15 Feb 2026 Team size: 4 Time taken: 50.03 Outcome: Successful escape!
story-drivengreat hostingintense👻scary

As a team of 4, we had mixed feelings about a scary room (2 of us are absolute wimps), but we all enjoyed it! We did it at the scary level, and thought this brought such an ambience and atmosphere to the room; it was great. Our host Tabbie was fantastic!

We enjoyed the variety of puzzles in this room. We've done most of the other rooms by Escape Reading, and we love how the puzzles in each room all differ. It makes it all new and interesting, and we recommend coming to do all of their rooms!

rileypeverall experienced rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Outcome: Successful escape!
immersiveintenseepic🧟terrifying
mex experienced rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Played: 19 Apr 2025 Team size: 2
AJ’s expert rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Played: 24 Oct 2020 Team size: 2 Time taken: 57:40 Outcome: Successful escape!
intense😨creepy
EugeniaM rated this:Rated between 4.5 and 4.5 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersiveintense🧟terrifying

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

DoctorPB experienced rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
StaceyF expert rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Played: 9 Mar 2024 Team size: 3 Time taken: 54:15 Outcome: Successful escape!
😨creepy
🦡cipherdelic virtuoso rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Played: August 2023
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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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