by Breakout Cardiff (website)
Unit 9a, The Brewery Quarter, Caroline Street, CF10 1FG
2-5 players
60 minutes
Overall rating
based on ratings from 12 users
combined with 4 pro reviews
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Player reviews
The sheer amount of padlocks in this room is what makes it challenging, not necessarily the actual puzzles themselves. However as a 2, we loved being kept on our toes for the whole game and felt pretty tired once we had finished!
It has a nice balance of horror theming without being scary. We really enjoyed ourselves and as they listed it as 5* star difficulty, we were really chuffed when we finished.
A fun yet challenging game.
The first part of this game has some very bland decor, expanding into something a lot better as the game progresses.
This is one of them games that had a few complex puzzles that you know how to solve, but simply struggle with with executing them. If you are not very good at this type of puzzle, you're stuck and cannot progress
Some good puzzles and some to trip you up but with a go
A Hair-Raising Hospital
A horror-themed room seemed appropriate for this time of year!
Story
As part of a SWAT team, investigate the whereabouts of missing PC Richards, who may have last been seen at a seemingly abandoned hospital.
Puzzles
A fine mixture, and accurate level of difficulty for the four-star rating (NB: it's now been increased to five-star, so may have changed since my attempt). There wasn't anything to blow your mind; it was rudimentary puzzle-solving.
Mise-en-scène
Inexact. I'd accept the escape room trope of 'serial killer's lair', but apart from a steel gurney and one or two other bits, it had nothing else that correlated with a disused hospital or its corridors.
Final Comments
If we were part of a SWAT team then surely our weapons would have made us feel safe. Either way, this was a fairly spine-chilling challenge that made me feel a little suspenseful at times. Take a team of four to blitz it, go as a pair for more of a challenge.
Reviews by escape room review sites
While Disturbed is a traditional, padlock-heavy escape room, it's a good example of how that doesn't have to be a bad thing. It uses a horror theme but is definitely a puzzle room not a scare experience.
It's not a huge space, though didn't feel cramped with a team of four. The use of video at the beginning and mid-way is a nice way to reinforce the theme and give more of a story to it. However, what I really enjoyed is the way the puzzles divided up well across the whole team. At most points t...
Not a huge amount to do with a major reset error at the start (Played on the day it opened and so will have gone under chance since then)
See also
- Breakout Manchester: Disturbed (Manchester) (closed)
- Breakout Chester: Disturbed (Chester) (closed)