Locked In A Room Exeter: Parallax

By | August 28, 2021

by Locked In A Room Exeter (website)

Locked In A Room, 83 Fore St, Exeter EX4 3HR

Exeter

2-6 players

Languages: EN

60 minutes

2 copies
The time-travelling super genius, Professor Pottenger has been kidnapped by unknown assailants! The assailants hideout has been located but questions still remainโ€ฆ Where is Pottenger? Who kidnapped him? Who do they work for? Enter their hideout and obtain the vital intelligence needed to unearth this peculiar mystery, before itโ€™s too late!
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madhatter rated this:Rated between 30 and 30 out of 5
Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!
story-drivenoverpricedvery difficult
Some bits were confusing. One bit we knew exactly what we needed to do, but took forever to do it and were becoming frustrated because we couldnโ€™t reach! Only just made it out! We all had fun
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 10 and 10 out of 5
JoeRaymond experienced rated this:Rated between 30 and 30 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
TeamDenton experienced rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Team size: 5 Time taken: 39 mins Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivestory-driven

This was a nice room - well themed and with a range of puzzles. Some of our team hadnโ€™t played an ER before but are big video game players so had no problem with the puzzle solving elements. There was one puzzle that seemed to require long arms but maybe we missed something to make it easier? Overall good fun! 

Mark Jackson experienced rated this:Rated between 35 and 35 out of 5
Played: 9 Oct 2022 Team size: 5 Time taken: 56 Outcome: Successful escape!

Solid room. Nothing ground breaking but a solid play. Lots of combinations.

SupertrampEcho experienced rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Outcome: Successful escape!
story-drivenintenseepic
Philip & Gemma rated this:Rated between 30 and 30 out of 5
Played: 18 Nov 2017 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
great hostingenjoyableplain

We won't waste your time rewording something that already exists, as Toby in the EtR pro review below has hit the nail on the head.
Puzzles made sense, theming nothing to write home about, enthusiastic hosts.

Jasmine Barrett rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivestory-driven
Sam Carr experienced rated this:Rated between 35 and 35 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
cleverstory-drivenquite difficult
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Reviews by escape room review sites

In enthusiast discussions, Locked In A Room is a company that rarely gets mentioned, and for good reason: enthusiasts are absolutely not their target audience. Their high-capacity branches with multiple copies of each game room are set up above all for corporate outings, and their games fall into that middle ground where they're not notably atrocious nor sufficiently high quality to stand out.

Parallax was the third of their rooms I'd tried, and it followed the style of their others: a strictly...

Parallax is a perfectly acceptable game, but I wouldnโ€™t necessarily  recommend enthusiasts playing it at Center Parcs simply due to the price

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