Escape Newcastle: Prison Breakout

By | July 26, 2023

by Escape Newcastle (website)

15 Princess Sq, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ER

Newcastle upon Tyne

2-6 players

Languages: EN

60 minutes

You have been wrongly incarcerated and the corrupt warden refuses to let you leave the facility. You've been working on escaping for months and now is the time, get out of your cells and disarm the security systems. You need to be quick though, as the prison warden will be back in an hour!
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jakea256 expert rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
🔐EscapedBear experienced rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Played: 24 Aug 2024 Team size: 3 Time taken: 35.00 Outcome: Successful escape!
broken tech

Good start to this room, but there was some broken tech which meant that the GM ended up coming into the room twice, which broke any kind of immersion. Happy to have played for the price we paid, but better options are within a relatively short distance. 

spbc expert rated this:Rated between 2 and 2 out of 5
Played: 15 May 2024 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
poor hostingneeding tlc
2 Bodies 8 Minds rated this:Rated between 4.5 and 4.5 out of 5
Played: 17 Mar 2024 Team size: 2 Time taken: 46 Outcome: Successful escape!
originalcleverquite difficult
Great escape room, had 2 missing pieces of a puzzle for our escape but managed to guess it correctly, won't say anymore than that. Great little escape room, got the brain working. Slightly easier than we expected but definitely one to do if you're in the area 
Adrienne Ward rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
family friendlyslow for clues
Sandie Morris rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 21 Aug 2023 Team size: 2 Time taken: 43.47 Outcome: Successful escape!
originalclever

Challenging start for 2 players (one a 11yo) but we got there with a few hints.

Interesting puzzles, well themed - it lacked a bit of room design "wow" for me. But still very enjoyable.

Anonymous rated this:Rated between 2 and 2 out of 5
Lee Taylor rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 1 Feb 2022 Team size: 2 Time taken: 59:11 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersiveintenserealistic
Amanda Mary Mack rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Played: 12 Mar 2022 Team size: 5 Time taken: 54:45 Outcome: Successful escape!
Elderly Escape Artist experienced rated this:Rated between 2 and 2 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
illogicalunoriginal
Unoriginal prison break setting but saved by the fact it is in actual cells from the old courtroom. We were confused by the fact that when we escaped there were still locks on items that we hadn't needed to open and we were told that they weren't needed! Good hosting but a tired room.
gimiabreakout experienced rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!
broken tech

Friendly hosts who were accommodating and some fun moments of solving puzzles but otherwise a standard prison themed escape room. Half our team did end up standing around not really doing a lot whilst waiting for the other half to complete puzzles in order to free them from an area.

Our game was ruined a little by the final puzzle being broken despite retrying it several times.

Helen Coleman rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Team size: 3 Outcome: Failed 🙁
Jemileh experienced rated this:Rated between 4.5 and 4.5 out of 5
Played: 6 Aug 2022 Team size: 3 Time taken: 55 Outcome: Successful escape!
TheSinger expert rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
unoriginal

Another prison break style room that doesn’t offer anything more than the same style games within the same theme. I have definitely played better. The room had a little different angle as we also had escape the prison and get in to the officers office. At the point we really clicked with the room and we’re on for a flyer. Immersion slightly broken when the host came into the room to tell us a clue (which we hadn’t asked for). 

The Monkey expert rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Outcome: Successful escape!

Padlock heavy, interesting start to the game but nothing special compared to other Prison escape games. Could tell you were in an office style room converted to an escape room rather than feeling like you were in a cell.

The Monkey expert rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Outcome: Successful escape!

One of my favourite prison escapes! Who am I kidding  I love all Prison escapes! The original escape room theme! 

TheSinger expert rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersive

Great immersion in the fact that your playing within actual prisons of the past. Other than a pretty straightforward prison break escape room. Pretty similar to any others of its type 

Catherine K experienced rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Team size: 6 Outcome: Successful escape!
family friendlyoverpricedquite easy

If there had been less of us this room might have been better but there weren’t many puzzles and although we were assured it was even split of puzzles for those inside and those outside the cell, it wasn’t. Our players in the cell spent a lot of time waiting for a puzzle they could be involved in. 

nanocatsammy experienced rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 22 Nov 2021 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 5 and 5 out of 5
🔐James Bloodworth expert rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 08/08/2020 Team size: 2 Outcome: Failed 🙁
Get ready for a split start unlike any I've seen before.  Communication is key more than ever, you are actually playing in the real cells (the venue was a former courthouse) that used to be used.  There's a lot to do so I would advise a party of 4 but having said that we were literally on the last puzzle when the timer expired but this was a lot of fun and, for my money, the best game at the venue.
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 5 and 5 out of 5
🦡cipherdelic virtuoso rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Martin Ellis rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5

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