Hackers: Blood over Baker Street

By | February 22, 2022

by Hackers (website)

32 High St, Billericay CM12 9BQ

Billericay

3-6 players

Languages: EN

60 minutes

Sherlock Holmes is missing. You are a group of journalists from The Strand magazine, sent to interview the worldโ€™s most famous detective. But you discover the remnants of a scuffle - his usually fastidious Victorian lair is in disarray. But there are clues that something is afoot, a nefarious game that pulls you into the depths of London and beyond.
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Overall rating

Rated between 4 and 4.5 out of 5

based on ratings from 6 users
combined with 1 pro review

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Mike S expert rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5
Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!
dave470003 rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Played: 16 Jul 2023 Team size: 6 Time taken: 76
beautifulimmersivestory-drivenquite easy๐Ÿ˜จcreepy
Robert Storey experienced rated this:Rated between 35 and 35 out of 5
Played: 17 Feb 2023 Team size: 3 Time taken: 48 Outcome: Successful escape!
story-driventoo many screensquite easy

Our second room of the day and we were... glad we did it in the order we did. 

As with Tomb, the set was amazing and fitted the storyline very well. The story was immersive and quite probably near to the best around

BUT, yet again hackers have fallen at the puzzle hurdle. There is simply not enough stuff to keep us entertained, the majority is follow order and instructions.. not much searching and a lot of press this button to see what it does.  This room was not as bad as its counterpart though, which was on a whole different level.

Everything FELT GM controlled which is not what you want from a game. 

Worth a try as a first room but would be hesitant to play for experienced teams. 

Simon (The Overthinkers) expert rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Played: 6 Jan 2023 Team size: 4 Time taken: 60:00 Outcome: Successful escape!
hi-techoriginalcleverquite difficult

Lots of originality in an expansive experience. Some of the audio could be a bit clearer but a text version is shown in case you miss anything. Not easy, but easily the best of the 3 rooms we played. 

Mrs G expert rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Played: 11 Sep 2022 Team size: 3 Time taken: 52 Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifuloriginalimmersive

Fantastic room, fully immersive and some very unique and clever touches. The set itself is huge and very pleasing on the eye. Definitely an unmissable game and one of the best I have played!

Anonymous rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Team size: 4
hi-techimmersivegreat hosting

Took the family to do the Blood Over Baker Street Escape Room - we are huge escape room enthusiasts and have completed escape rooms up and down the country, and all of us agreed that this one was by far the best, by quite some way. Itโ€™s literally nothing like the usual, predictable escape-rooms you encounter. The set is truly extraordinary (itโ€™s literally like being on a movie set), the tech is incredibly advanced and the actual adventure itself is just so much fun. The whole operation is incredibly slick and well executed. Our escape room master, Scarlet, was absolutely superb from start to finish and her enthusiasm was infectious. All of us canโ€™t wait to book in for the next one as soon as it opens! Good job Hackers - we will be back ! 

Reviews by escape room review sites

A beautifully structured game, which, was not only visually stunning, but also had a really strong storyline and varied puzzles which were certainly different to the norm. An experience which would suit the whole family, and one where enthusiasts can get lost in an experience which doesnโ€™t quite fit the normal โ€œescape roomโ€ genre.

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