by Escape Newcastle (website)
15 Princess Sq, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ER
2-6 players
Languages: EN
60 minutes
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This is a break-in, not a break out. The building itself is an old bank and you're literally breaking into the former vault - nice twist.
We struggled with a couple of puzzles at the start, but this was us being thick rather than the room letting us down in any way. As I recall, we escaped in the nick of time, but we could have been faster if we had thought about it more.
The room was a little basic in design and looked like it had been done on a bit of a budget, compared to their other rooms, but we still enjoyed it and importantly: escaped.
Really good and original concept, less an escape more a break-in. The last lock was fiddly meaning we thought we had the code wrong.. it may have been an issue on our end 😀
Great fun throughout anyway.
A fairly easy one for us, but still good fun.
Well paced game with plenty of puzzles in the vault to keep you busy for the full hour.
Reviews by escape room review sites
The Bank Vault is of course a heist game. It’s also designed to be a variable score game, where your success is based on how much money you get out with, not how quickly you finish. Staying past the 60 minute mark is a failure, but the gamemaster prompts when your time is short to make sure you don’t accidentally stay too long, so it’s a question of how much you can unlock in the time provided. This design has the big advantage for enthusiasts that you’re pretty much guaranteed a full hour of ga...
