Compendium Escape Rooms: Bedlam

Asylum Secrets

Compendium were offering money off their Gift Vouchers, and so I brough a friend to do two rooms back-to-back.

Story

As journalists, step into Bentham Asylum and uncover the secret behind Cell P23, which was locked long ago with no explanation.

Puzzles

A mixed bag that you need to think logically for. Cooperation is also key!

Mise-en-scene

Very good! The obsolete, unassuming space delivered on ever so slightly eerie, abandoned asylum vibes.

Final Comments

We got out with around 7 minutes left on the clock.

Return trip to Bury with the friends that recommended it to try their new room (although another one is already being built too .. exciting!)

Very cool room, everything inside was very authentic. Lots of clever puzzles with a lot of effort that has gone into the room. Good variety of things to see and do and a good story too. Loved it

Really good room with a twist from the team at Compendium. We were put a bit off track by the order logic of the props and puzzles but felt completely immersed in another greatly decorated room! Definitely worth the visit to Bury, we're looking forward to try their other rooms. 🙂

Absolutely loved this game - the smallest in the venue but still loads to do and lots of interesting twists.

#40

Our third room at Compendium, and other fantastic one. The smallest room there but they really make the most of the space. Again, really cool set design, fun, logical puzzles and as always, fantastic hosting. All of Compendium’s rooms have original themes and set design, head there as soon as you can.

Great puzzles!

Very immersive.

Great decor and theming. 

Lots of fun!

Excellent use of a small space with fun puzzles and good set design. Suitably eerie but not scary. 

A clever room for the size of the space, maybe a squeeze for larger groups but plenty for a couple. 

Completely immersive room. Very good use of a small space. Story driven and it genuinely feels like you are locked up in a padded room. Another highly recommended room from compendium.

Another great game from Compendium - An older room, but just hold up against their newest additions to the centre.

I feel sad rating this so low but we just didn't vibe with this room like we did all the others at compendium. Again, the theming is excellent (you're in an actual padded cell!) but there were a lot of padlocks but no clue as to which one you should put the code in so there was a lot of trial and error which was frustrating at times. 

What a fantastic room.

How they managed to keep the theme of an old padded cell throughout amazes me. 

Some ingenious puzzles, plenty of content and on theme. 

There's also a nice little twist to this game that can get some good competition going, but shhhhh, don't spill the secrets 😉