Lucardo Manchester: Derailed

By | December 3, 2023
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by Lucardo Manchester (website)

Virginia House, 5-7 Great Ancoats Street, M4 5AD

Manchester

3-6 players

Languages: EN

60 minutes

Your team have been hired by a most-wanted criminal to pose as detectives and help them get revenge on one of their enemies. You need to find anything on the train that might lead them to an answer of which one killed their partner-in-crime. It’s risky but you’ll be very well paid. But hurry! The real detectives will be here very soon. Will you find an answer in time or will you spend life behind bars?
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Scotus0 expert rated this:Rated between 2 and 2 out of 5
Played: 30 Jan 2025 Team size: 4 Time taken: 59:49 Outcome: Successful escape!
poor hostingquite difficult

Train Troubles

While my last visit involved lots of fun in Space Evader, I/my team didn’t get close to the same level of enjoyment from Derailed.

Story

The story made little sense- we were first collecting jewellery at a station, then later…finding a murder weapon on the train?

Puzzles

The first half’s challenges were fairly varied but failed to provide much of an enthralling assortment. We didn’t get the impression that our host was paying much attention to our game. At one point in the second half, we were practically begging for help because one of the puzzles involved hopelessly ambiguous equipment.

Mise en scene

The train’s set came across was well-presented compared to the platform/whatever the first bit was supposed to be.

Final Comments

My team of 4 got out with seconds to spare- take a full house if you want a shot at solving everything in the collection stage. We left feeling deflated.

🦡cipherdelic virtuoso rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: March 2024 Outcome: Successful escape!

Half collection, half traditional escape room, and lots of puzzles! There's plenty to do for bigger teams and enthusiasts and a nice mix of puzzles. Well themed and finished to a high standard. 

Reviews by escape room review sites

Lucardo Manchester’s newest game is of course a train game, but more than that it’s a game of two halves, to the point where it could almost be two separate 30 minute games that share a common theme.
The story is that you’re trying to solve a murder mystery - but on behalf of a criminal, pretending to be detectives, needing to solve it before the real detectives turn up. As criminals, you’re also going to swipe everything valuable that is t nailed down, and in the first half that’s what you’re ...

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