Escape One Algarve: The Laboratory

Edifício Pátio Da Rocha, Escritório 5, Rua Das Ânforas, Praia Da Rocha, 8500-325

2-6 players

£0.00 €20.00

Languages: EN, PO

🖥digital
not on sale
90 mins

An old laboratory.A dusty suitcase.A long hidden secret.

The bad guys want what’s inside, and they’ll stop at nothing to get the answers.
Can you uncover the truth and smuggle it out safely before they arrive?

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magicalbacons expert rated this:

Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!

Erin rated this:

First time playing an online escape room! We bought the digital version, not the live version - 6 of us total. A lot of fun, no glitches or technical difficulties, instructions were clear and easy to follow.

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Anonymous rated this:

One of the harder ones, but enjoyable. The clue system helped out when we were killing each other.

Anonymous rated this:

We really enjoyed it, but found it difficult and had to use the hints. We were 4 people and it took us just over 2.5 hours.

One thing to watch out for is that answers may be case-sensitive.

Nick rated this:

the closest to being in a real escape room

Manuel rated this:

Super prep, super hosting, a lot of fun, highly recommended, always again! Thanks Katie and David!!

Anonymous rated this:

That was so much fun. Really challenging! I would definitely recommend it.

Anonymous rated this:

An excellent online game. The Telescape system makes it great to work with others while playing the game remotely. Strongly recommend!

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Hidden Key Escapes rated this:

Challenging and interesting. Loved it.

Anonymous rated this:

Great being able to look round the room and have everyone's cursors on screen together from different locations. Nearest thing to actually being in the room.

Anonymous rated this:

Really enjoyed it, was like actually being in a room with everyone looking around for clues.

Anonymous rated this:

Excellent really enjoyed it, thank you!

Nicki rated this:

What a great game, some really interesting puzzles there - took us 2 hours but enjoyed it fully. Loved the mix of puzzles and how you had to work together still. Almost as good as being in the room. Amazing. Would definitely play another game.

Anonymous rated this:

Besides getting tripped up on one puzzle, I had a great time with friends! Got out in under 90!

Anonymous rated this:

Really good fun and it definitely made us think and work together. Once we got used to the set up we thoroughly enjoyed it.

Anne expert rated this:

Played: 10 Jul 2021 Team size: 2

quite difficult

For us this was a great experience! The end puzzle had a lot of math in it (adding and subtracting many many times - nothing complicated) and it can be a bit tedious, but we are math people, so it didn't bother us.

We did have a few "that is really cool" moments in this one. One with shadows and one with latin. That is not saying too much, I think. We really liked some of the decorations - they were a bit geeky. Fun.

We took 2 hours on this in a team of two. We did feel that a bit of signposting pointing out when a puzzle was not yet relevant would have been nice. There was great signposting in some places, but because some elements gave you a lot of information that could be read in a lot of ways, this wasted a bit of time for us.

Even using 2 hours we felt that getting out was too early. Ready for more.

The inventory was visible when looking at a puzzle and worked well (This game is built on telescape). We did have a bit of lagging problems, but that might just be our computer, since it only affected one player. Otherwise the tech worked well.

Recommended!

FreshBresh rated this:

Team size: 1 Outcome: Successful escape!

PuzzleParrot expert rated this:

Played: March 25, 2021

Literally the mathiest mathscape room I have ever encountered. Got to the point where everyone on the Zoom would laugh out loud when we uncovered a new puzzle and it was inevitably more math. It was...functional, so one and a half stars. But the puzzles were repetitive and process-heavy, the math was tedious, and we were pretty much checked out by the time we finished. Twenty pounds is a bold amount of money to ask for this.

KEITH & BEA rated this:

DEFINITELY LOTS OF BRAIN TEASERS AND INTERESTING PUZZLES.

KEPT US ON OUR TOES. THANKS A MILL. KEITH & BEA.

Anonymous rated this:

A lot of fun!

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Mother Topia rated this:

Thoroughly enjoyed the experience! It took a little getting used to, to figure out how to input the answers, but once we did, it was a great experience! So glad I was able to play this game without having to get on a plane! Thank you!

Alistor rated this:

Well put together with some really clever puzzles and surprising use of the digital platform. Mother and I played it and it was alot of fun. Thank you!

Anonymous rated this:

Played: 12/18/2020 Outcome: Successful escape!

Clunky telescape adaptation of a fairly generic game. Too much aha-less process for my taste, and disappointingly not as joyously creative as Escape One Algarve's hosted remote offerings.

Anonymous rated this:

We loved this - a few puzzles really stumped us and one, I don't think we ever would have figured out - but the most part we understood where to go!

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reviewed as a remote livestream game

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reviewed as a remote livestream game

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reviewed as a remote livestream game

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reviewed as a remote livestream game

egnor expert rated this:

A nice science lab room in a rustic (vaguely steampunky) setting with a lot of nifty cross connected puzzles. Uses "telescape" inventory which I like.

reviewed as a remote livestream game

🔐James Bloodworth expert rated this:

Played: 01/05/2020 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!

A one room remote play room with a science theme, this was a slow room to start as we must have spent 10 minutes just guiding the avatar around the room to see everything. Some clever ideas and some favourite old tropes, a diverting hour.

reviewed as a remote livestream game

Anonymous rated this:

reviewed as a remote livestream game

Anonymous rated this:

Played: 11/05/20 Team size: 2x4 Time taken: 59 mins Outcome: Successful escape!

My escape room club assembled 2x teams of 4, (most accessing from separate locations) to tackle The Lab, one of the many physical-turned-virtual escape rooms now popping up. The game is played via Zoom and in English (David, the excellent host, is a Brit). There is also a separate user-pannable 360 shot you can access via the web that shows the whole layout of the room - a useful innovation. Both teams escaped within the hour - but only just. The puzzles are plentiful, varied (albeit around a central theme) and well designed as is the room set-up. Both teams took an age to get going but we accelerated as the time went on, the impending hour mark sharpening our focus. We required no hints although David helped by performing our instructions efficiently. The camera work and communication from David was excellent. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed it and thought the €45/session price was very reasonable given the full hour of entertainment it provided. Recommended!

reviewed as a remote livestream game

Wei-Hwa Huang expert rated this:

Decent but not memorable.

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reviewed as a remote livestream game

Nothing is ever going to be quite the same as playing a physical escape room in person, but the virtual version of The Laboratory came close, and was everything I could ask for in a game: good theming, clever puzzles, and a great host. I’m only sad that I won’t get to play it in person

reviewed as a remote livestream game