Mission: Breakout: Codebreakers

By | March 20, 2019

by Mission: Breakout (website)

141-145 Kentish Town Road, NW1 8PB

Central London

3-6 players

60 minutes

Player review

Review by smudgepuss

Rated between 30 and 30 out of 5
Played: 10/02/2020 Team size: 6 Time taken: 52ish minutes Outcome: Successful escape!

I really wanted to like this one more than I did, as it looked very promising.

The puzzles were fairly straightforward, and we did have a bit of a technical issue with one switch.  I didn't really find it noticeably more immersive than any other rooms I've done - perhaps because of the too-loud and over the top constant sound effects (I don't think codebreakers would have been working in rooms so loud you have to shout over the sound of the aerial gunfight that you can somehow hear from your underground bunker), but the immersion was worse the further through the game you got.

6 people is definitely too many - the last 10/15 minutes was basically a 1/2 person job so we finished on a bit of a low as most of us had just been standing around for a while.

You will get dusty in this, it's unavoidable.  And there is a part with a very enclosed space.

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