Bishop’s Stortford Escape Rooms: The Governor

By | April 14, 2021

by Bishop's Stortford Escape Rooms (website)

Millars One, Southmill Rd, Bishop's Stortford CM23 3DH

Bishop's Stortford

2-8 players

Languages: EN

60 minutes

You and your team of paranormal investigators are exploring the remains of HM Greenslade Prison when you are captured, blindfolded, handcuffed and find yourselves locked in a cell. You have one hour to escape.  Will you make it out?
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based on ratings from 19 users
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Timbtech rated this:Rated between 2 and 2 out of 5
Team size: 5 Time taken: 41
illogicalpoor hostingunoriginal

The host (or was he on work experience) forgot to clear the hand written clues/answers from previous game. I can live with mistakes, but his lack of care afterwards was shocking.

jakea256 expert rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5

Some great use of space within this room and puzzles with brilliant aha moments. The locks were in need of TLC as many were stiff even with the right code and the ending wasn’t great (but I believe this was because something was broken). 

Wesley Mead expert rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 10 May 2022 Team size: 2 Time taken: 52m Outcome: Successful escape!
story-drivenintensequite difficult😨creepy

We preferred the first half to the second half, but overall still a very good game with really inventive use of space and an appropriately grimy vibe

abooth expert rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 5 Feb 2022 Team size: 3 Time taken: 36 Outcome: Successful escape!

Theatrical, fun, flows really well. We just clicked with this room and flew through it, but didn't feel bored at any point.

spbc expert rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 31 May 2021 Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!
funnygreat hosting
🦡cipherdelic virtuoso rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Played: May 2022
Ratchel experienced rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
🤘The Pick of Destiny expert rated this:Rated between 2 and 2 out of 5
Team size: 3
illogicalplainboring
Logan rated this:Rated between 2 and 2 out of 5
Team size: 4 Outcome: Failed 🙁
illogicalbroken techpoor hosting👻scary

We got to the last puzzle with a good amount of time left, but couldn't figure it out and thus failed.

For our group, we didn't click with this room at all - especially the second half felt very illogical. We struggled with broken tech (flashlight didn't work, two puzzles didn't trigger the needed outcome) and our GM seemed bored, disengaged, didn't notice when we finished puzzles and at some points it felt like they were just laughing at us.

Our main issue with the room is that there's often only one puzzles to solve, leaving little to do for the entire group other than stand in front of that one puzzle. 

We didn't find it scary, probably because we were mostly annoyed.

SpookyEm rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Played: 30 Jun 2021 Team size: 4 Time taken: 52.51 Outcome: Successful escape!
cleverimmersiveconfusingquite difficult👻scary

I was really scared throughout this! Loved the attention to detail, but it seemed to go on forever. Our games host was great! One of the puzzles I found a litttle inaccessible but our GH worked around it. Just escaped! 

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The premise of The Governor is that you're a group of ghost hunters imprisoned in an abandoned prison by an ex-prisoner - thereby managing to combine no fewer than three of the classic escape room themes in an unexpected fusion of haunted house, prison break and homicidal maniac. That blend allowed the tone to range from sly humour to some genuine creepiness without ever feeling incongruous.

I found both the build and the atmospherics impressive. A complex layout makes it a larger and much more...

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