Escape Hunt Basingstoke: Our Finest Hour

Great game! 

Only flaw (as with many Escape Hunt games) was when the GM had to look/listen for us doing something to trigger the next step, rather than it being mechanical. Most of the time, this is fine, except when the GM isn't concentrating! 

There was also an instruction sheet for a puzzle that literally made no sense to us, to which the GM said 'yeah, a lot of people say that'.

Firstly, I actually really liked the set design in this game. World war games can feel Drabby. Whilst minimalistic, it was actually quite nice. Not in a blow your mind way, but in a “this is nice” kinda way. 

We found this game super easy to be honest, maybe in a smaller group we would have got abit more out of it. A couple of bits didn’t work in the game, which spoiled it really. There’s a cables puzzle, and it was clear some of these where not working, and you could tell our games master had to manually override it. The morse code was also frustrating as it just wasn’t reading our inputs. The games master did suggest these where new issues after our game, but I think they where just trying to smooth things over. 

There wasn’t a ton of puzzles, but it was fun. Maybe this is a good game for beginners or younger families. 

Aside from one really memorable set piece this is one of the poorer rooms I've played. The puzzles were far too simple and easy to solve. The objects were clearly bought for a quick reset turn around. The story was good and if it wasn't for one incredible set piece that took five minutes to solve this would have been a 1 star room. Definitely the worst room I've played so far in leeds.