Breakout Manchester: Zombie Lab

By | October 29, 2020

by Breakout Manchester (website)

51 Church Street, M4 1PD

Manchester

2-5 players

60 minutes

Zombies are roaming the streets; no one is safe. Humanity's only hope is an elite group of scientists, gathered together to find a cure. Rumour has it, the scientists have fallen prey to the flesh eating monsters. Luckily the cure has been safeguarded.

The fate of the world is in your hands... you've gained access to the lab to find the cure. Unluckily, you've been exposed to the active zombie pathogen in the lab and you have 1 hour before you turn. Can you get through the scientist's defences to find the cure, save yourself and the world?

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Overall rating

Rated between 2 and 3.5 out of 5

based on ratings from 11 users

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caroline354 expert rated this:Rated between 1 and 1 out of 5
Team size: 2
illogicalplainunoriginal
Avoid! Getting to play this for free would still be too expensive as you'll never get those 60mins back. Non logical puzzles, tiny set, no atmosphere or scares (in a zombie themed game), cheap props, poor hosting...enough said. 
TheEscapeBoomers expert rated this:Rated between 2 and 2 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
plainboring

This game was so plain it was unforgiveable - Basic puzzles and nothing special. 

Anonymous rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Played: 24 Sep 2022 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
great hostingplain
MerseyMarauders expert rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!
great hostingbroken techunoriginal
Scotus0 expert rated this:Rated between 2 and 2 out of 5
Played: 24 Feb 2022 Team size: 2 Time taken: ~48:00 Outcome: Successful escape!
plainunoriginalvery easy

Lifeless Lab

For one of their newest escapes, this room was a let-down. As you’ll see below, the story has been done a million times.

Story

Search a lab for a cure to the zombie outbreak- but find it quick as you’ve been exposed to the virus and will turn in an hour.

Puzzles

The puzzles were very bog-standard- I didn’t even have to think for some of them. In terms of hints, we needed one or two little nudges.

Mise-en-scene

The design/scenery was reminiscent of a tired prop room for a ghost train. A scattering of disfigured, tattily dressed dummies and the odd piece of laboratory equipment resulted in an experience that lacked any sort of character. There were missed opportunities for scares here.

Final Comments

We broke out in good time and, well, that was that. It’s only fair to say that, after leaving this review on TripAdvisor, a member of staff got in contact to say immediate improvements to the room will be made.

Catherine K experienced rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
story-driven
Exotic Turtle experienced rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
Arjay Henshall expert rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 11 Mar 2022 Team size: 2 Time taken: 45 Outcome: Successful escape!
original
thehermit experienced rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
great hostingbroken tech

Another take on the generic Zombie game. The game play was fine.. But due to some broken tech we had keys work in multiple places causing us to advance without completing an entire room. 

abooth expert rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 19 Mar 2022 Team size: 2 Time taken: 54 Outcome: Successful escape!

One of, if not the best Breakout game we've played, plus we saw some things we haven't seen before.

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