Escape Reality Leicester: Jungala

By | March 20, 2019

by Escape Reality Leicester (website)

41 St Matthews Way, LE1 2BU

Leicester

2-6 players

60 minutes

You have discovered an old board game in your attic and once opened you are engulfed by a vortex and transported into an alternative realm. After only seeing a glimpse of the terrible world inside you are thrown back into reality. Vowing never to approach the game again you attempt to leave but the door has been locked trapping you in. Glancing over to the game you see the words “The dice have been rolled.” You have no choice but to complete the game or be trapped inside the other realm for eternity. You only have sixty minutes to complete the game!
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based on ratings from 20 users
combined with 6 pro reviews

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flyingoctopus expert rated this:Rated between 15 and 15 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
plainunoriginalvery easy

Sadly this is not a good escape room. 

Lots of counting objects around the room. Not my idea of fun. 

Also, the clue system here leaves a lot to be desired as does the games hosting. 

🔐James Bloodworth expert rated this:Rated between 25 and 25 out of 5
Played: 11/01/2020 Team size: 2 Outcome: Failed 🙁
Mean't as a beginner game, it would probably have been a victory if we'd had some more people as this is a search heavy game but still able to pull off one or two nice moments but feels a little tired now (the key prop literally came apart in my hands).
ShaneKarlSmith experienced rated this:Rated between 15 and 15 out of 5
Team Tonks experienced rated this:Rated between 10 and 10 out of 5
Played: 26 Jun 2022 Team size: 2
broken techpoor hostingno help

This is probably the worst escape room we've done in a while. We normally check escape the review before booking but since we'd played a couple of Escape Reality games previously in Birmingham and this was a last minute booking we thought it would be ok. Firstly, the clue system is abysmal. You have to use an iPad to scan QR codes within the room, one of the QRs linked us to the wrong hint (one we'd already solved) and then it times out for 10 minutes. At this point, the gamesmaster should have stepped in but didn't as there isn't any audio within the rooms. There was a supposed hint button within the room. We got stuck for over 20 minutes, pressing the button, waving at the cameras and shouting and no help came. At this point, we were so frustrated. The frustration was made worse when the final room was just a count the objects, with no real innovative puzzles. The final room was too dark and with one torch between us, it was impossible to find everything required. We never found a few of the items we were looking for and just guessed to get through to the next puzzle. Trying to find something green, against a green backdrop, in a dimly lit room, with one torch is just ridiculous and not fun. The theming was non-existent. It feels like Escape Reality just want to run the games as cheaply as possible and we cannot recommend enough that Escapers avoid this room. When experienced Escapers can't get out of a room within the allotted time, the company really needs to review the why. We will not be back to experience their other rooms and we often make a day of it at one site. 

Anonymous experienced rated this:Rated between 15 and 15 out of 5
Team size: 4 Time taken: 36:56 Outcome: Successful escape!
broken techplainquite easy
Pegz241 rated this:Rated between 30 and 30 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
very easy
Jen Wells (Get Wells Soon) expert rated this:Rated between 30 and 30 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!

A fun game with some quirky surprises. We flew through it as a team of two so I'm not surehow much there would be to do for a bigger team.

🦡cipherdelic virtuoso rated this:Rated between 25 and 25 out of 5
🦡cipherdelic virtuoso rated this:Rated between 20 and 20 out of 5
nanocatsammy experienced rated this:Rated between 30 and 30 out of 5
Outcome: Successful escape!
family friendlyvery easy
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A round-up of a couple of trips through Glasgow. Mostly poor experiences with the one highlight being Escape the Past at Pollok House, a room that would stand up reasonably well even if it weren't in a heritage site.
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If we hadn’t needed to call on any hints, we would have enjoyed the room much more. But in the very first space, set up like a living room, we got stuck, 

Jungala is a fun, well paced room with a good variety of puzzles that (thankfully) don’t rely on clever tech to maintain immersion. There’s enough here for a team of four to work through and not step on one another’s toes.

It’s Escape Reality’s least challenging room and so serves as a great and fun entry point to the venues games. Definitely give it a go.

The iPad system with time penalties for each clue were a downside for me in this game, but one I am able to look past.

A game that left me with a distinct dislike of sloths, but nevertheless was very enjoyable. 3 very different sections with an array of puzzles, a push in the right direction for a particular puzzle would be helpful, but I stumbled upon the answer by chance. Worth the trip, especially as there are 8 rooms in total here, so you can get a few in together. 

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