Breakout Cardiff: Sabotage

By | March 20, 2019

by Breakout Cardiff (website)

Unit 9a, The Brewery Quarter, Caroline Street, CF10 1FG

Cardiff

2-5 players

60 minutes

closed
Can you go deep behind enemy territory and stop a missile strike which endangers the safety of the entire world? There is 60 minutes before launch, you need to break into the control centre and stop the launch or the consequence will be catastrophic. Sabotage is the sequel to our classified rooms.
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Overall rating

Rated between 3.5 and 4 out of 5

based on ratings from 23 users
combined with 2 pro reviews

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Wesley Mead expert rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
amywoof rated this:Rated between 30 and 30 out of 5
Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!
lizratesrooms experienced rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Played: 28 May 2022 Team size: 2 Time taken: 58 Outcome: Successful escape!
quite difficult
Scotus0 expert rated this:Rated between 25 and 25 out of 5
Played: 23/04/2019 Team size: 3 Time taken: 60:00 Outcome: Failed πŸ™

Stop That Launch!

I was supposed to tackle this as a team of four, but someone dropped out last minute. As it's a five-star room, I went in with low hopes of breaking out.

Story

Save the world by stopping a missile strike.

Puzzles

Hard, with a capital H! Although we cracked some of them quickly, others had us completely stumped. They were army-themed, and a couple of practical tasks were involved to spice things up a bit. One of them stood out as particularly novel to me. Clues weren't coming when we needed them, but even so, we'd have needed many more to get out.

Mise-en-scène

'Enemy territory' was uninspired. As mentioned, the puzzles and props contributed to a military environment, but  it was otherwise a basic office.

Final Comments

We were at least four puzzles away from success. Take your best team for this room.

Anonymous rated this:Rated between 25 and 25 out of 5
Played: 2017 Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!

We were very disappointed by Classified which is meant to be the prequel to Sabotage, so had low expectations when attempting Sabotage with a new crew but were surprised by some of the puzzles that brought laughter and excitement. One of the last puzzles of the room was on the edge of being too difficult or too random, so this one brought a bit of frustration but overall a good evening with one big surprise that we all enjoyed. 

fraggle42 experienced rated this:Rated between 35 and 35 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
Mark Greenhalgh expert rated this:Rated between 25 and 25 out of 5
Played: 13/03/15
abooth expert rated this:Rated between 25 and 25 out of 5
Team size: 2 Time taken: 59 Outcome: Successful escape!

It's ok but would agree one of the last puzzles is too random, ambiguous and difficult.

Anonymous experienced rated this:Rated between 35 and 35 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Failed πŸ™

Difficult but enjoyable. Fun ending but the last puzzle was very hard.

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Sabotage is not a particularly showy game - the modern setting translates to a fairly stripped-down theme and mostly straightforward props. But it's a well designed and satisfying room, and some nice touches give it an edge of understated humour that I really enjoyed. And the difficulty is sufficient to give even the more experienced teams plenty to get to grips with.

It does use a quite remarkable number of padlocks, though these are very much on-theme. There are also quite a few promising-loo...

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