by Escape Hunt Cheltenham (website)
70 Edinburgh Pl, Cheltenham GL51 7SE
2-6 players
60 minutes
Step into the future. Enter the offices of ChronosCorp HQ, where eccentric billionaire Alastair Montague’s efforts to develop commercial time travel have caused a tear in the fabric of space and time. The Cybermen are ready to take advantage and attack Earth.
You, the Doctor’s friends, must investigate the incident. The remains of Montague, his prototype time engine and the extensive collection of time-related artefacts acquired over the course of his experiments, are all that you have to work with.
In just 60 minutes the Cybermen will break through. The fate of the universe is in your hands. Take too long and the human race will be “upgraded”.
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Games master was good but this escape room was awful from start to finish. Seriously terrible.
No logic behind any of the puzzles, half the theming was broken with switches coming off the walls and even part of the wall felt like it was about to fall over.
One of the puzzles literally has you asking the AI computer the same question 20 times before it says "yes".
Without doubt the worst escape room I've ever played and it's honestly put me off every trying another game at Escape Hunt.
Played this game for my Dr Who-obsessed youngest son's birthday, and the only good thing I can say is that at least he had a good time. And, if you like Daleks, you *might* too. But not if you like escape rooms.
Almost all the puzzles are fundamentally broken - in one puzzle, the GM had to repeatedly ask *us* over the monitor system whether *we* had inserted the tubes in the correct order - as if they were asking us for a hint whether to press the button to activate the next section of the game or not. There are objects with designs that match other elements in the room, but apparently are only for "decorative effect". There are other elements of puzzles that apparently are only relevant if you play with a certain number of players, but they don't deactivate them if your team is of a different size, so there's no way to know whether they're used or not. Another puzzle has you "interacting" with an A.I. by literally asking it a series of about 20 arbitrary yes/no questions (waiting for about 5 seconds after each one to get a response). What a waste of an hour.
Room is designed as a single player set up due to the way the puzzles complete. The puzzles themselves aren't puzzles, they are random objects and images with no logical way to solve as there is no linkage. Reliant on the game master. Needs a rethink.