by Escape London (Hammersmith) (website)
136 King St, London W6 0QU
2-7 players
Languages: EN
60 minutes
Bill Myers is a boy haunted by vivid, terrifying dreams—twisted worlds, rotting landscapes, and monstrous shadows. He draws what he sees, but it’s more than imagination. His quiet town starts to decay: crops rot, kids vanish, storms rage with no warning.
Through his visions, Bill discovers a shadow world—a rotten mirror of ours—where something evil waits. He sees glimpses of secret experiments on kids like him, with powers that tore a hole between worlds.
The gate they opened was never fully closed. Now it’s waking up—and the darkness is coming for him.
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Excellent nods to the show that this is very clearly based off. Puzzles were a real good mix and I found those in the final section to be particularly creative. A real step up in quality from the team at Escape!
First the good part... It's clear that a goodly amount of care and attention has gone into the build and props; they're a cut above many other rooms.
However... It's a shame that the quality of the puzzles doesn't match. There's way too much emphasis on either written or audio instructions, basically meaning that it feels more like you're undertaking a list of tasks rather than solving a puzzle that intuitively leads you through a sequence of steps to a conclusion. I didn't get any of the dopamine "ah hah" moments when you feel pleased with yourself for achieving a satisfying solve.
In addition we had a door not open when it was triggered meaning that we wasted time hunting for something we'd missed when in fact we hadn't and one of the puzzles we seemed to need to repeat the solve sequence 4 or 5 times before it was accepted... We thought we did the same thing each time (the only logical answer we could come up with) , so no idea why it wasn't accepted the first number of times, but all in all it was quite frustrating.