Unescapable Escape Rooms: Edith

By | March 20, 2019

by Unescapable Escape Rooms (website)

25 Wardwick, DE1 1HA

Derby

2-8 players

Languages: EN

60 minutes

When we first open a time portal we send one of our scientists back to make sure everything is ok and it is all safe and stable - we sent Edith, but unfortunately she hasn’t returned… We’ve now lost communication with her, but we do know that she was trying to shut the portal down when something stopped her. We need your team to finish the job - we would go ourselves but we’re too scared.
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Rated between 3.5 and 4.5 out of 5

based on ratings from 29 users
combined with 6 pro reviews

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spbc expert rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 3 Mar 2020 Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivegreat hosting👻scary
Wesley Mead expert rated this:Rated between 2 and 2 out of 5
Played: 11 May 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 57m22s Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivebad puzzle😨creepy
Contains easily my least favourite puzzle in 200 rooms: a horrible skill-based time-sink with no real workaround. Ruins the game.
stjamesescapes rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Tatticorn rated this:Rated between 4.5 and 4.5 out of 5
Played: 31 Dec 2023 Team size: 2 Time taken: 50.30 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivegreat hostingintensequite easy🧟terrifying
The Puzzles themselves were relatively easy but the room was very thematic and terrifying. Struggled on occasion due to low light levels and one puzzle in particular may as well have been in braille. Providing a torch may have ruined the theme but a small pen light would have certainly saved us a headache.
Tatie experienced rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Outcome: Successful escape!
illogical

This game was hyped up to me as one of the scariest escape games there is. I did not get this experience, I got lights turning off randomly for long periods of time making my team stop in our tracks as we couldn't see anything. We also kept being directed into another room to waste time it seems, throughout the game it seemed that we had been slowed down multiple times by the games master as we were completing the room too quickly. We were also told about a live actor before we came to play but they must have stopped doing that as all we got was a few random taps or bangs on the floor and I never saw this live actor in the game. overall it was a disappointment after ages of the game being hyped up to me and my team we feel we didn't get the experience everyone else had.

LockAndMe experienced rated this:Rated between 2 and 2 out of 5
Team size: 5
overpricedvery easy

*POTENTIAL SPOILERS*


Now, this room has been mentioned to me a few times, as one of the most intense, scary experiences out there in terms of escape rooms. This is wrong, we got a few bits of tapping, and a lot of random darkness. This, was unfortunately, overhyped. Which, isn't the rooms fault, I appreciate. 

However, what was the rooms fault was the lack of content within it. I counted 5 locks. The puzzles we easy (I appreciate we're an experienced team, but still), we were slowed down by bits of random darkness, which I HATE, it doesn't make sense, in my opinion it is literally the host saying we're going to fast, let me turn the lights out so you have to stand around doing nothing until they come back on, thats very frustrating. 

*AGAIN SPOILERS*

There was parts of the game where we were split up from each other, but at one point, we had to leave a person handcuff and chained behind for a number of minutes, considering this person paid to be part of this experience, that seems like a waste of money on their part, even more so that the reason we were sent to a different part of the game was to go and solve a puzzle that we had already done earlier in the game, the host did try and cover this with explaining we did a few things quickly so didnt realise, but, at the same time, the puzzle they thought we needed to do, the solution was by our sacrificed friend anyway, so there was no need to go back, thus proving, it was just another, let's slow them down, type of thing. Not great. 

REALLY disappointing. I have spoken to a lot of people who said when they played it under it's original owner, it was a great experience and really creepy, and they were surprised when I said it was one of the most disappointing escape rooms i've played. 

Don't believe any hype. It seems to have been left to rot.

The puzzles weren't difficult, and a few times, we were just given items that would help us out through holes in the walls, not even something we could work out, just, heres the answer.

Real shame if im honest, and at £100, to be out in less than half an hour? Well, I felt ripped off. 

Seven Of Diamonds experienced rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 2023 Team size: 2 Time taken: ~35min Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivegreat hostingintensequite easy👻scary
Anonymous experienced rated this:Rated between 5 and 5 out of 5
Smith² expert rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
tev rated this:Rated between 5 and 5 out of 5
Played: 28 May 2023 Team size: 4 Time taken: 0.59 Outcome: Successful escape!
value for moneyimmersiveepic
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Edith is an unusual beast of an escape room, one that you might love or might find not to your taste, but which you'll definitely remember. Personally I thought it was outstanding and hilarious.

The game is named after a missing operative from your time travel agency, who went through a new time portal then vanished in the process of trying to shut it down. Your job is to go through the same portal, work out if it's safe (spoiler: it's not), then shut it down and escape.

From the rather specta...

A fantastically scary game that I'd recommend to anyone who likes that genre of rooms. A wonderful sense of exploration combined with the actor interactions really help make Edith an intimidating experience.
Edith has a reputation amongst UK enthusiasts that’s not undeserved. Your tolerance for terror will ultimately determine if this is one that you’ll love or leave, but it is without a doubt one of the best horror experiences we have played in the UK (so far), and struck a nice balance between horrifying and humorous.
When it comes to horror escape rooms in the UK, Edith is a name that many will recognise or maybe even fear. One of 4 of Unescapeable Derby’s devious but amazingly themed and immersive rooms. Edith is known for a dark storyline, Chilling Mystery and many a jump scare in tow. That being said we were visiting in the time of COVID… So would Edith live up to its fearful reputation?
Truly the most terrifying experience I’ve ever had. It’s an atmospheric and (unfortunately for your nerves) truly immersive game. You’ll struggle to find one scarier. It’s also got some real moments of humour that really lighten the mood.

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