LockHouse Escape Games: Armageddon

By | March 20, 2019

by LockHouse Escape Games (website)

70 Regent Street, CB2 1DP

Cambridge

2-7 players

60 minutes

Work with your team to destroy a giant meteor hurtling towards the Earth! Find the secret laboratory hidden within a rather strange University department and figure out how to launch the meteor defense missile.
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based on ratings from 20 users
combined with 4 pro reviews

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ozle rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Played: 6 Oct 2024 Team size: 4 Time taken: 37
cleververy easy

Very easy for 4, feels quite dated.

Nice hosts though

LolainHollywood experienced rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!
teishab rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Team size: 4 Outcome: Failed πŸ™
value for moneyclevergreat hostingquite difficult

It was my first escape rooms experience but really enjoyed it. There was much arguing in our group about the importance of the fan! Sadly we didn't succeed but it was great fun!

🌡Juliette B expert rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Played: 20 Apr 2024 Team size: 6 Time taken: 45:40 Outcome: Successful escape!
plainquite easy
Admittedly, I wouldn't have chosen this game myself but our 9 year old now has the ER bug and decided she wanted to do an ER for her birthday party and this fitted the requirements. Essentially - they all had a great time, they were all new to ERs bar our child, and the GM did a good job with some gentle clueing although we also provided some hands off guidance from within the room. I wouldn't recommend it for enthusiast groups - the space is a little spartan and worn down, and it is a bit light on puzzles (even factoring in the above, we finished in 45 minutes) plus the ending comes as a bit of a surprise and could use some more build up. If you need to take some newbies to play somewhere, they will still have fun (but if at this venue, I'd choose Mayan Temple over the other games). 
A Blacksmith expert rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!
Jen experienced rated this:Rated between 2 and 2 out of 5
Played: 7 Aug 2023 Team size: 5 Time taken: 31.53 Outcome: Successful escape!
broken techpoor hosting

I was disappointed with the whole experience here to be honest, seeing as I’d heard quite positive things about this venue. The welcome was poor, three hosts sat behind a desk on their phones. Part of the game wasn't working and when we asked if it should be doing something, we weren't really helped. The themeing was good but there was no really excitement when we successfully escaped. With 3 children in tow, the lack of fanfare just made us feel quite flat. The hosting really let this one down.

Oscar rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
immersivestory-driven😨creepy

This was my favourite room at Lockhouse, there's enough quality props and tech to make it feel like a treat, and the puzzles were tricky enough to get us talking for quite a while. A little bit corny but I don't mind.

Anonymous rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 11 Oct 2020 Team size: 2 Time taken: 58:39 Outcome: Successful escape!
hi-techstory-drivengreat hostingquite difficult

One of the more difficult ones we've done. Had to resort to asking for a lot of clues to be able to finish in time. One small section had actually broken which the gamesmaster had to come in to fix for us but the room was still fun

jakea256 expert rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
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For some reason both the escape game venues currently open in central Cambridge use room designs from Hungarian company TRAP. I played most of the TRAP games in Budapest some years ago, but Armageddon is one of the designs that didn't exist at that time, so I happily booked in to try it when passing through town. I remembered the Budapest TRAP rooms as as solid and slick mass-market games, but then they were some of the first escape rooms I ever played, so I didn't have much to compare them to....

The second room from our Cambridge double bill.
The less experienced escapers in our team found the room to be a lot of fun, but those with a few more escapes under our belt were left a little underwhelmed. There’s a nice variety of puzzles but it’s a pretty short experience and a very crowded one with seven players.
A strong room with impressive set design and puzzles we've not seen anywhere else.

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