by Escape Hunt Norwich (website)
Intu Chapelfield, St Stephens St, NR1 3SH
2-6 players
Languages: EN
60 minutes
Step on board a doomed spaceship, where a rogue Dalek has tapped into the power system, in an attempt to recharge its weapons. Should the Doctor’s most feared enemy be successful, it will exterminate all in its path.
You the Doctor’s friends, must prevent this catastrophe. Shutting down the ship’s power core will ensure the Dalek cannot activate its weapons. However, the ship’s life support systems rely on the same energy source, meaning that shutting down the power would result in the death of all 10,000 passengers.
You have just 60 minutes to find a way out of this impossible situation. You must defeat the Dalek to allow the spaceship to continue safely on its journey. Take too long and your destination will be extermination!
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Yes it’s really good to have the theme and video in the room. One other very nice design in the room. But puzzles are not logical and lots of prompts needed. Some puzzles a bit wonky. Found it hard to follow the storyline references. And expensive. Avoid.
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.
Appalling quality from start to end
Firstly, I’m not a Dr Who fan, but I LOVED the theatrics of this game. That was all I could really love about it. There wasn’t some nice moments, but ALOT of puzzles just didn’t work. This caused a lot of wasted time for us and ended up in us failing.
I guess with games this hi-tech, things can go wrong more often, and in our case, it clearly did.
I don’t usually complain, but on this occasion I did. They offered us a free game as way of apology which we accepted (we played their pirate game with this on same day).
I think, if everything worked, I’d have probably really enjoyed this “game”. It’s still an escaperoom, but more of an immersive set-piece style experience. In full working order, this is an absolute MUST for families with younger players as it is really exciting theatrically.
See also
- Escape Hunt Reading: A Dalek Awakens (Reading)
- Escape Hunt Birmingham: A Dalek Awakens (Birmingham) (closed)
- Escape Hunt Cheltenham: A Dalek Awakens (Cheltenham)
- Escape Hunt Basingstoke: A Dalek Awakens (Basingstoke)
- Escape Hunt London Oxford Street: A Dalek Awakens (Central London)
- Escape Hunt Oxford: A Dalek Awakens (Oxford)