Breakout Liverpool: Sabotage

By | March 20, 2019

by Breakout Liverpool (website)

7-11 Sir Thomas Street, L1 6BW

Liverpool

2-5 players

60 minutes

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 use your secret agent skills, break into the control centre and stop the launch or the consequence will be catastrophic. Sabotage is the sequal to Classified.
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Overall rating

Rated between 3 and 4 out of 5

based on ratings from 24 users
combined with 2 pro reviews

Your review

Player reviews

knoh39 experienced rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
hi-techimmersiveintensequite difficult
Lindsey Carey (Dinner Jackets) expert rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 13 Sep 2023 Team size: 2 Time taken: 51:14 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivestory-drivengreat hostingquite difficult

This is their hardest game, we liked it slightly less than the others more due to there being a lot of looking for things rather than puzzles, we find that harder. Still enjoyed it though. John was a fabulous host. 

TheEscapeBoomers expert rated this:
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!

Games okay - Last puzzle is just random. Why is it there?

AubreyB expert rated this:Rated between 1.5 and 1.5 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
MerseyMarauders expert rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!
originalintensepoor hosting
roberts0502 expert rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Played: 12 Aug 2022 Team size: 3 Time taken: 47:29 Outcome: Successful escape!
quite easy
ozzytheking rated this:Rated between 5 and 5 out of 5
Outcome: Successful escape!
clevergreat hostingfamily friendlyquite difficult
grogu42 experienced rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
abooth expert rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 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.

Lise expert rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 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. 

MissLoopyLou93 experienced rated this:Rated between 4.5 and 4.5 out of 5
Played: 13 Jul 2024 Team size: 4 Time taken: 53:20 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivegreat hostingquite difficult

A great room with a lot of numbers! Only has a 26% success rate.. so pick wisely 🀣 

fraggle42 experienced rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 28 May 2017 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
amywoof rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!
🀘The Pick of Destiny expert rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
endairis rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Team size: 5 Time taken: 50 Outcome: Successful escape!
story-drivengreat hosting
Catherine K experienced rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 26 June 2015 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
story-drivenquite difficult

Difficult but fun room.

Adam S experienced rated this:Rated between 2 and 2 out of 5
Played: 28 Nov 2014 Team size: 4 Outcome: Failed πŸ™
lizratesrooms experienced rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 28 May 2022 Team size: 2 Time taken: 58 Outcome: Successful escape!
quite difficult
Anonymous experienced rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Failed πŸ™

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

Mark Greenhalgh expert rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Played: 13/03/15
fraggle42 experienced rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
Wesley Mead expert rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Scotus0 expert rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 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.

Reviews by escape room review sites

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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