Escape Stoke: Taken

By | March 20, 2019

by Escape Stoke (website)

1 Piccadilly, ST1 1DB

Stoke-on-Trent

2-6 players

60 minutes

Your friend has been missing for days, believed to have been taken by a mysterious serial killer.
The police have yet to come close to capturing the kidnapper. You have been working hard to find your friend, and have tracked them down to an office in an engineering facility.
Is this just a normal office, or have you stumbled across the secret lair of serial killer?
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based on ratings from 43 users
combined with 6 pro reviews

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Arjay Henshall expert rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Played: Team size: 2 Time taken: 56 Outcome: Successful escape!
Speedy Sloth expert rated this:Rated between 35 and 35 out of 5
LouT rated this:Rated between 30 and 30 out of 5
Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!
poor hosting
Fun but formulaic game. Played with teens who enjoyed it. Experience was sadly let down by a lack lustre host. 
Tim Cooper expert rated this:Rated between 25 and 25 out of 5
Team size: 2 Time taken: 40:00 Outcome: Successful escape!
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grogu42 experienced rated this:Rated between 30 and 30 out of 5

Good first game for people new to the escape world. Puzzles pretty standard for enthusiasts, but still fun non the less.

Ollie C rated this:Rated between 25 and 25 out of 5
Played: 19 Jan 2017 Team size: 5 Time taken: 49 Outcome: Successful escape!
unoriginalquite easy

Great beginners room if you're new to the world of escaping. The room theme is a bit plain and there isn't much story but it has some fun puzzles. Experienced players will breeze through most of the room.

Simon (The Overthinkers) expert rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Played: 3 Jan 2019 Team size: 2 Time taken: 50:39 Outcome: Successful escape!
abooth expert rated this:Rated between 30 and 30 out of 5
Played: 21 Jan 2022 Team size: 1 Time taken: 58 Outcome: Successful escape!

Quite sparse on design but a decent theme, some fun puzzles. Got a problem with some really unnecessary red herrings and an absoute time killer of a puzzle, but it worked my brain and I had fun. Ran it alone.

Mark Greenhalgh expert rated this:Rated between 20 and 20 out of 5
Played: 07/01/16
matt_keds expert rated this:Rated between 25 and 25 out of 5
Played: 24 Dec 2018 Team size: 2 Time taken: 54 Outcome: Successful escape!
great hostingunoriginal

#9

The first room we completed at the fabulous Escapism was ironically the least enjoyable there. The room seemed a little plain and the props a bit dated, but this is only in hindsight - we had fun while we were playing. The theme was pretty generic but it’s still worth a go. If you’re heading to Escapism though, all of their other rooms are really good fun and have more immersive set decoration no storytelling so try those first, especially Radioactive or Legacy.

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The second game at Escape Ipswich (and also at various other branches of Escape around the country) has you investigating a serial killer, and inevitably you've found yourselves caught and in danger of becoming his next victims. Naturally this killer enjoys toying with his prisoners in the form of leaving them puzzles that they might be able to solve to escape.

Like the other game we played at the venue, there's not a great deal in the way of decor here. Forget dank basements, this serial kille...

Plenty of puzzles, a fair number of locks and good but very much IKEA-esque decoration. A perfectly reasonable game but with nothing to get very excited about.
One of their first rooms, which shows, could do with a revamp as it’s not up to the same standard as their other games. Click the link to read our review!

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