DarkPark Vlaardingen: Stay In The Dark

I was lucky enough to be part of a team to play this game in the last few weeks before they lose the venue.  I knew it was going to be a 'scary' game, they admit as much in the blurb but was it an escape room?  There was a room, and we had to escape but they were very much an add-on, this is more of an Escape Experience.  More than say, a scare maze, but not quite a full blown Escape room.  You do play a lot in the dark (obvs!) but there are some interesting excursions that take you around the building and the space is HUGE.  Probably the biggest space I've ever played in.There is a live actor and part of the game is to stay in the dark (I failed totally at one stage as found myself caught between him and a light source).  
The host was impeccable, happy to engage and he threw himself into the physicality of the role in a way I've rarely seen.  The last two parts of the game are amazingly high energy and it has a great finale.  I'm not a huge fan of games like this but I do play them (I'm a LARPer so I treat live actors as NPCs) and I can appreciate the intense experience (we heard the screams of the group that had gone in after us).  Is it scary?  Yes, but not in a creepy way, I've felt the hairs on the back neck stand up in much more intense scare rooms, this reminded me a lot of Lethal Decision 1 that I played many years ago now.