by Escape Reading (website)
92B Audley Street, RG301BS
2-6 players
60 minutes
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A very nice game. Lots of puzzles. Built up towards the end really well too.
Amazing room with so much inside, the best I’ve ever played for sure and certainly deserving of all those awards. Everything is so clever and well designed, the room is fully immersive and always throws something new at you. Hosting also great from the get-go!
I really shouldn't rate this as highly as I do, it's so hard to compare escape rooms and I often wonder whether I should be scoring on gameplay, immersion, theme/decor, hosting or more.
As soon as you enter the room you feel like you're in a bank. It's not other worldly exciting but impressively realistic. From that point onwards there are a lot of things that break immersion, notes from the gamemaster telling you to be careful not to break things, clues that are clearly puzzles and not in theme. And that should make it not a top tier escape room......
But it doesn't. It's a puzzle lovers dream. You know you are in a game and it feels like it. Puzzles are being thrown at you left right and centre, every type of puzzle you can imagine is included. A live scoreboard keeps the adrenaline running and when you think you are getting near the end you realise it's really only the start. The puzzles are non linear so groups can split but there are plenty of puzzles that need more than one person and constant communication is key. There is so much detail that you miss at first glance but all puzzles are so well signposted and no need for logic leaps, we needed 2 clues but they were both us being silly rather than a confusing puzzle.
We loved it from start to finish and my son (7 and on his 18th room) hasn't stopped talking about it since. It has instantly gone into out top 3 of over 25 rooms (number 1 for our son)
Some great technology (which all worked) and was genuinely impressive.
There's loads of attention to detail in the construction of some impressive set pieces, as well as many more subtle details - things like the dynamic music soundtrack and the thematic scoring and timekeeping system. There's lots of clever tech but it's so well-integrated and worked flawlessly that it was only in the post-game walk-through (which are always appreciated) that our excellent GM Thom pointed them out to us. There's lots to do, varied puzzles and, on the few occasions that our team needed a little guidance, he was very responsive to help.
Our family team of 2 adults and 3 kids, aged 10, 12 and 16 played this on a rainy, grey day in Reading and we left buzzing with smiles all round (and a million quid). What more could you ask for?
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