Escape Stoke: Area 51

This is was great day trip to Ikea.. Plain and boring. 

This is a sci-fi room with no padlocks or other types of physical locks, progress is made by opening keypad locked doors or using RFID equipped objects.  We found it difficult to start before we found our flow and it's quite easy to overthink some of the problems.  Host was excellently on point and gave us a nudge when we needed it.  The story didn't quite make sense and it felt like a story for a different game but this was good fun.

.A very basic game had some great little puzzles but was very generic.

Good hosting. Quite a high amount of key and code based puzzles. Some intuitive problems but some not so much. Nice theme and storey. Managed to bypass the last few puzzles which was slightly annoying.

When booking the name at first made it sound very interesting. However once inside it was very plain and it was mostly white walls and a LOT of padlocks. Some of the puzzles were tough and there was a few moments where we were unsure where to move onto next as the puzzles didn't flow together very well. There was also no confirmation that you had escaped. We finished a puzzle and spent a while wondering what we had to do next before realising the exit door had unlocked and we could push it open.

I was a bit disappointed by Area 51 which was way less atmospheric that the others with low decorations and a very high difficulty. But the room has been changed to Legacy which is worth the visit!

Not as good as the other room, and one of the first I've played, but seem to remember it being pretty decent still.