Dreamcat: Lucid Labs

By | August 14, 2025

by Dreamcat (website)

315, Highgate Studios, 53-79 Highgate Rd, London NW5 1TL

North London

3-4 players

Languages: EN

closed
120-180 mins
free

Here at Lucid Labs, we believe in the power of dreams. With our very* safe and mostly** tested procedure, you are almost guaranteed to enter into a state of lucid dreaming and explore your own subconscious.

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🔐EscapedBear expert rated this:Rated between 5 and 5 out of 5
Played: 13 Aug 2025 Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!
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🏆Annagramma expert rated this:Rated between 5 and 5 out of 5
Played: 13 Aug 2025 Team size: 4 Time taken: 110m Outcome: Successful escape!
hi-techoriginalclever

Oh this was an absolute joy.  The first physical escape room from this company, and they absolutely smashed it. From the very first interaction with the Lucid Labs "scientists" right through all the zones, the puzzles, the story and the wonderful tech, just delighted us. This is an escape room plus - with characters, games, tasks and more. An immensely clever use of the space available, and high-tech systems I had not seen before. It really has everything. Whilst not as polished decoration-wise as some permanent rooms, you can look past it and see what they have done with what they could create and invent, and what they have managed to do in the space for a free, charity fundraising, pop-up escape room is incredible. The level of humour too is brilliant - from puns, and crazy challenges and personalisation to the players, they really give it their all. We had the most amazing two hours and could have gone on for longer. I REALLY want to see more rooms and ideas from this team. Well done all of you.

jakea256 expert rated this:Rated between 5 and 5 out of 5
originalfunnyclever

Thoroughly enjoyed this game from a team of volunteers who just wanted to create a charity pop up escape room for fun. 

The ideas displayed were first class - really loved how everything was framed, recalled and used, and the slightly very bonkers journey we went on in this game. The team were extremely lovely and played great characters throughout the game.

All of the puzzles were very satisfying to solve and all made sense within their dream's environment. One mid-game section was particularly fun! For a pop up there was some quite cool tech used too that I hadn't seen in other games.

Really recommend snagging one of the final slots if you can!

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These days London is a bit of a quiet spot for new escape rooms, which makes this pop-up game from puzzle collective Dreamcat all the more exciting - though sadly I only managed to catch it near the end of its run, and I believe all slots for the few remaining days are now taken. This is in fact an amateur creation that’s free to play, with a suggested charity donation, built and run on a volunteer basis. Don’t assume from that that this is a Blu-Tack and string sort of construction knocked toge...

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