“Blot” The Blood Festival of the Vikings is celebrated in these lands ever 9 years. You have been captured by a rival tribe who intend to offer you as human sacrifice, to the gods, once the celebrations begin! Mercy is not of these people! You have been locked away until the festivities are underway… do the gods truly wish to witness this fait of yours? Odin, and the Aesir gods have decided to test you, to see if you are worthy. They have sent you Mjolnir, Thor’s mighty hammer, and wish you to recover it! If you can, the gods will deem you worthy, spare your life, and grant your escape! Til’ Valhalla!
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Played: 13 Mar 2026Team size: 2Time taken: 63:23Outcome: Successful escape!
great hostingillogicalquite difficult
A fairly small room that’s absolutely packed with puzzles. There’s loads to do and our team of two only just finished in time! The puzzles are varied, using a lot of different mechanics, although not hugely original. One issue is that the game has very little flow: you immediately have access to lots of padlocks and puzzle components and it’s not at all clear what you should be concentrating on at any given time, or even which code goes into which padlock. For example (mild spoilers) there’s a map on the wall near the door that’s pretty much the first thing you see when you enter the room, and we were repeatedly trying to figure out how to use it… and then it turned out not to be useful until almost the end of the game! A little bit more signposting would have definitely improved the experience, eg some sort of indication of what code went with which padlock.
The room was nicely decorated- obviously there’s only so much immersion you can achieve when there’s padlocks everywhere, but this room did a pretty good job.
Our GM, Pete, was very knowledgeable and had a good understanding of how to help us along with a light touch.
This venue is definitely worth a visit if you’re local or you’re in the area for a few days.
A fairly basic, but enjoyable escape room, some good puzzles and kept us going for the full hour. You get a discount price for children, and I don’t know many places that do that. Ormskirk is easy to navigate and there is (paid) parking nearby.
This was our third visit to Lockdown Ormskirk. Can’t recommend this place enough. Played Valhalla today their newest game. Lovely room and so much to do. This room will keep you busy. Plenty of original puzzles. Just about managed to escape with less than a minute to spare. As usual great hosting from a real enthusiast. Highly recommended
Played: 2 Mar 2024Team size: 2Time taken: 57:13Outcome: Successful escape!
value for moneyimmersivegreat hosting
An authentic Viking-themed room with a myriad of ingenious puzzles,
including some challenges I’ve not encountered elsewhere. A very enjoyable and
entertaining experience created by a genuine escape room fan
