by Knockout Escape Rooms (website)
75 Milford Road, RG1 8LG
2-6 players
Languages: EN
60 minutes
🐶For years, rumours have spread about a rogue AI — a creature of code and curiosity — calling itself The Locktopus.
Now it has invited you into its chamber of challenges. An hour to prove yourself. Seventy-four tests contained within eight puzzle strands. Solve four strands, and you may escape… but the more you conquer, the higher your score — and the deeper you dive into the Locktopus’s tangled mind.
This is not a normal game. This is a battle of wits against something built to outthink you.
Will you impress it? Or will you be forgotten like the others who failed?
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If you like complex puzzles and having loads to do, this one’s for you!
I was more lost than I usually am in a Deadlocked/Knockout room, but luckily Teen One is completely tuned in to the Deadlocked Brain and was in his element. I could almost see his brain fizzing. The tech was brilliant and, while baffling for me, both teens tuned in quickly and seemed to know what to do. I’d like to think we’d have figured it out too eventually. Maybe after a few hints.
Somehow we escaped and got on the leaderboard, then headed off for pizza where the teens tried to explain what happened.
This is a different and special kind of game that will probably divide opinion , but for some (like Teen One) it will go straight into the top 5. You could easily come back to and try to beat your score, or complete different puzzles.
A really fun collection style game with a little bit more structure than average. Beautiful setting, creative puzzles. It just needed multiple places to input codes, as it got a bit annoying being on each others toes / waiting to input.
This room is completely different from anything I’ve done before - I suspect it may become an award winner.
It’s an achievement room so you can increase your score by doing more puzzles but the escape element feels strong too and runs all the way to the end. I don’t always love achievement rooms because I like the feeling of doing everything but we loved this one it’s so different. The room itself is really interesting, the use of tech is really good. The puzzles are fun. Overall highly recommend this.
Very high tech, very busy, loads to do, not a single padlock in sight. The kind of room that you could potentially play more than once.
Really impressive.
Very different and HighTech Room. Points based room with infinite number of puzzles to complete, bit overwhelming at times but very clever room and some great puzzles! The host we had was great and the rooms creator. He was happy to chat and answer all our questions at the end
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This is not your typical escape room. It is very high-tech and revolves around a large central screen. It is however a game made by an enthusiast, for enthusiasts - it is a puzzle-fest!
Pitted as being a room with far more than is humanly possible to solve in the time you’ve been given, it’s very clear that this is an experience for people who care about nothing else than to just solve puzzles. There’s only one other game in history that captivated me so utterly from start to finish because of its pure dopamine-fueled solving – and that was Million Dollar date night at the Panic Rooms in Gravesend. However most of those were classic quick wins or off-the-shelf, so it wasn’t particularly innovative – a far cry from here.