With no natural successor to the King the throne is up for grabs. He who raises the legendary Sword of Britain will take the throne.
Legend has it that the wily old King has hidden the sword within the castle. You are first onto the scene, explore the castle and retrieve the sword before the pretenders arrive!
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Played: 4 Jan 2024Team size: 2Time taken: 60.00Outcome: Successful escape!
originalclevermagicalquite difficult
Really good escape room this one, my partner and I were hugely overthinking things and we cut it so close! You know that scene in every movie where the hero cuts the wire on the bottom me and it stops on 1 (sometimes 0) well that’s how our game went, as I launched myself across the room with the final puzzle piece…the timer just hit 0 as I slam it into position!
Elements of the room were interesting but other elements didn't seem to fit. They fit the theme but didn't really fit the story or the puzzle path. Without spoilers its hard to explain but something fit the theme of overthrone but didn't quite fit with the objective.
If you've watched a recent fantasy series involving houses and dragons then elements of this will be very familiar to you. The king is dead and you have to prove your worth! As with the rest of their rooms, the theming is good with some interesting puzzles, like some of their other rooms, the flow is mostly good but (like Magic Emporium) perhaps some better signposting might help in one or two places but this is still worth your time.
While the
games master Daniel was lovely and the room itself was okay I would not book
with this company again . I had bought a voucher for Christmas for a game with
3 participants which was valid until November 24. When I booked the room and
used the voucher code I was surprised I had to pay an extra £12. I went ahead
with the booking as I thought it is merely an error of the online system and
asked for a refund later but was told they increased prices and therefore I was
responsible for the difference in price.”
Due to the price change, there is a price difference and customer would be the
one to cover it.”
In my opinion this is not how a gift voucher works and I would have been very
embarrassed had I gifted it to someone outside of our family.
There was one padlock which had not been reset which left us unable to progress before receiving two clues enabling us to work out that is what happened. The bigger complaint is that there is no sign posting between the many padlocks and the puzzles leaving you continually trying the code in 4 places at a time (or 5 had the other padlock been in place). Other rooms I have played with this problem simply add a mark of some form on each puzzle. It is also not clear which puzzles are in play which is another avoidable issue, eg with lighting.
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It had been a while since I’d visited Escape London’s Shepherds Bush branch, and I was pleased to find they’ve upgraded their entrance: the venue is still down a narrow staircase, but it’s now a much more attractively appointed staircase, fronted by a more clearly marked doorway. The Escape franchise tends to operate multiple copies of its games in different branches, but as one of its newer games Overthrone currently only operates in London, Leicester and Basildon.
Their ‘Overthrone’ room is a vaguely medieval, slightly mythical themed room – it’s like combining the legends of Arthur and Camelot with the Tudors. The brief we are given is that the king is dead and his nobles are out to kill you next – to stop them you need to find the crown and sceptre and sit on the throne.
The second room we did in our day out at Escape Basildon, a very different room, but equally impressive as the first, room designed beautifully, and looked amazing, some tricky puzzles, but all very good. Definitely worth the trip.
