Escape Sheffield: Contagion

By | March 20, 2019

by Escape Sheffield (website)

Sheffield

2-5 players

60 minutes

In order to retrieve the vaccine you must find a way to defeat the lock down on the laboratory. The quarantine timer is set to 60 minutes, after which the room and all traces of your work will be incinerated. You must do this if the rest of humanity is to benefit from your work.
Get your white coat and your safety goggles on as you prepare for Contagion....
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Rated between 2.5 and 3 out of 5

based on ratings from 25 users
combined with 5 pro reviews

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TeamDenton experienced rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!
family friendly

This was a fun room, our main complaint was that it felt like we were given a bit too much information at the start. There weren’t loads of tactile interactive elements so this room was less about searching and props than it was about logic and puzzling. 

🎲A Jones experienced rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Played: 2 Apr 2018 Team size: 4 Time taken: 41:17 Outcome: Successful escape!
🀘The Pick of Destiny expert rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Amy Lowson rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Played: 18/02/2019 Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!
liam and rosie experienced rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Played: 15 Mar 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 46 Outcome: Successful escape!
😨creepy
Dawne20 rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Played: 10 Jun 2023 Team size: 4 Time taken: 56.22 Outcome: Successful escape!
poor hostingoverpriced
We have played a lot of escape rooms and we definitely prefer the independent escape rooms, the chain rooms just don't cut it. We did not get this room and did not enjoy it.   
A Blacksmith expert rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!
Adrienne Ward rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
illogicalquite difficult

Last clue was just ridiculously obscure. 

Kerrie Wykes rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 19 Mar 2020 Time taken: 47:10 Outcome: Successful escape!
Anonymous expert rated this:Rated between 2 and 2 out of 5
plainunoriginalsmall
This room is inside an active school. You walk through the school with kids in classrooms to get to the escape room. Very odd indeed. This room also had an internal window into the school corridor which the students sat on and we spent the whole game listening to petty childish squabbles and arguments about fornite. Not an ideal location for an escape room when you want to be immersed in the story. The room itself is tiny with basic puzzles. You can see there has been an attempt to make this game stand out but they've basically just crowbar'd in some irrelevant tech. 
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Humanity is once again in peril, this time from an epidemic that's swept the globe and left your team as the last scientists on Earth. Fortunately there is an antidote hidden somewhere in a laboratory, if you can reach it in time.

The Escape franchise has spread to something like 14 different cities in the UK now, with a couple more on the way, so they must be doing something right. I've now played six of their games, and they tend to follow a straightforward format based around a mostly linear...

A solid room with some brilliant moments. Great for novices, but still fun for small groups of experienced players.
If you're lucky enough to get a good GM then this is a solid room and one we would happily recommend to enthusiasts

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