Item: Contagion
Author: Escape The Review

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by Escape Glasgow (website)

Baltic Chambers, 50 Wellington Street, G2 6HJ

Glasgow

2-5 players

60 minutes

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Your team of fellow scientists have been working tirelessly to create a vaccine for the fatal CYE disease. Everyone believes that you are on the cusp of defeating it. Unfortunately your work has taken a turn for the worse and you have all managed to contract the virus.

There are two options:

Either sit around and let it take you or redouble your efforts and create a vaccine.

This is not your only problem. After creating the vaccine you must find a way to defeat the lock down on the laboratory. The quarantine timer is set to 60 minutes, after which the room and all traces of your work will be incinerated. You must do this if the rest of humanity is to benefit from your work.

Get your white coat and your safety goggles on as you prepare for Contagion....
Our first themed game for Glasgow, Contagion is also our first multi-room live escape game. It will demand outside the box thinking with an interesting array of problem solving, code-breaking and other various puzzles.

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WinglessArchangel experienced rated this:

Outcome: Successful escape!

plainquite easy

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reviewed in Ipswich

GCTheScribe expert rated this:

Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!

A nice escape room with some tricky puzzles and good theming.

reviewed in Sheffield

OrangeLeek expert rated this:

Played: 20 Apr 2019 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!

value for moneyfamily friendly

reviewed in Dublin

niceguycarl experienced rated this:

Played: 20 Jul 2024 Team size: 2

reviewed in Kingston upon Hull

Lewis28 experienced rated this:

Outcome: Successful escape!

hi-techquite difficult

reviewed in York

jonnyb12345 rated this:

Played: 31 May 2025 Team size: 5 Time taken: 33:30

originalquite easy

We had a good time but it felt a little too linear - there were some idle moments for the group

reviewed in Ipswich

amandaann1986 experienced rated this:

Played: 23 Jun 2024 Team size: 3 Time taken: 59:01 Outcome: Successful escape!

reviewed in York

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reviewed in Ipswich

Ryan Harrington rated this:

Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!

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Humanity is once again in peril, this time from an epidemic that's swept the globe and left your team as the last scientists on Earth. Fortunately there is an antidote hidden somewhere in a laboratory, if you can reach it in time.

The Escape franchise has spread to something like 14 different cities in the UK now, with a couple more on the way, so they must be doing something right. I've now played six of their games, and they tend to follow a straightforward format based around a mostly linear...

reviewed in Ipswich

If you're lucky enough to get a good GM then this is a solid room and one we would happily recommend to enthusiasts

reviewed in Peterborough

A solid room with some brilliant moments. Great for novices, but still fun for small groups of experienced players.

reviewed in Blackpool

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reviewed in Sheffield

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reviewed in Blackpool

The premise of Operation Contagion is fairly straightforward. There’s a zombie apocalypse sweeping the globe and the world is in lockdown – not too hard to imagine post-2020, hey! – but this laboratory has developed a cure. Great! We’re saved! Only the lab is also in lockdown and there’s just 60 minutes before it self-incinerates. Ahh, not so great.

reviewed in York