by Gatwick Escape Rooms (website)
117 Victoria Road, RH6 7YS
2-10 players
Languages: EN
60 minutes
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Some of the puzzles in this room didn't make sense. There were tiny symbols on the padlocked drawers which gave you the clues to solve them but they were very small and not obvious at all. Our games host was lovely but not very attentive when we were asking for help and overall we felt quite frustrated by the game
We got to the last puzzle with a good amount of time left, but couldn't figure it out and thus failed.
For our group, we didn't click with this room at all - especially the second half felt very illogical. We struggled with broken tech (flashlight didn't work, two puzzles didn't trigger the needed outcome) and our GM seemed bored, disengaged, didn't notice when we finished puzzles and at some points it felt like they were just laughing at us.
Our main issue with the room is that there's often only one puzzles to solve, leaving little to do for the entire group other than stand in front of that one puzzle.
We didn't find it scary, probably because we were mostly annoyed.
Fun and quite scary. Lots of puzzles that were on the trickier side. Very enjoyable!
I liked this game and it seemed to flow well. Its a bit creepy so not one for small children or those easily frightened! The puzzle all seemed to work well and it was a lot to do in 60mins so it definitely filled the time. I don't feel we struggled on anything really and didnt have much time left at all. Good solid game, nothing ground breaking but still a good one to play and I liked the set/theming.
This escape room has a great spooky atmosphere and a thrilling start. The use of the space is nice. Some of the puzzles were a little long but fun to solve in a team.
An ok room ... not heaps to solve but the atmosphere was pretty good, and our team enjoyed the flow of this game more than the other 2 games we played at the same venue. The imagery and advertising of this game definitely seemed quite different to the delivery (the poster is of a guy digging graves - not a ghost in sight - yet the whole game is about ghost hunting) which we found quite odd.
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