Escape Reading: Mary’s Curse

What an incredible game, I could not not have given it 5 stars. It was phenomenally made with so many clever but easy puzzles. All hand made by the team at Escape Reading but extremely immersive. So many cool details to remember and be excited about, starting by the fact that the game starts as soon as you enter. I though the weird and wonderful white noise in the toilet was a great detail too.

It is so hard to describe this room without giving too much away. It is superb - a great storyline, great hosting and a scope more like European rooms. Enough said, go and play it.

We played as a two but it would easily work with a bigger team

Wow!! This is such an amazing room. It begins when you ring the buzzer (arrive as a full group and don’t arrive much before your time just be there at the start time).  We popped to the toilet which was part of the theming.

The game is 90 mins, the most immersive we’ve done in the uk and honestly so cool! We were blown away by the immersion and theming and the puzzles were great. 

There are a lot of surprises (all good).  Although the theming is scary and there is a live interaction there are zero scares or jumps it’s all just themed and id be happy to bring kids ten plus to this room (younger would struggle to follow the story and time).

Loved this and can’t wait for the next one on site - I’d be shocked if this doesn’t become one of the top in the UK. 

FANTASTIC! This has got to be in my top games I have played and what a brilliant game to play for my 90th ever game. 

They are sure correct when they say the experience starts as soon as you enter the building (luckily they still allow you to use facilities first) but yes you enter into the Village of Quietmere straight away. After a clever and different little briefing, the game began and the immersion was there from the get go. I'm not usually a fan of games with live actors or scary rooms and whilst this wasn't particularly scary, having the games master actually popping up and being part of the game was a first and I really loved it. The puzzles were a good mixture of padlocks, tactile puzzles and automated mechanisms and the whole time I felt fully immersed in the setting and story.  Without giving too much away, from very early on we experienced some really clever parts to this game that we havent come across before. The themeing and attention to detail was brilliant throughout and you can clearly tell a lot of time and consideration has gone into the design and build of this 90 minute game. We completed the objective with 4 minutes to spare as a team of three players and at the end had a great chat with our host about the game itself and how it has compared to other experiences, but like I said, this one is definitely up there as one of my top 10. Thank you and congratulations Escape Reading on an amazing game! 

Brilliant room, we had a great time. Immersive from the moment you arrive, with great design, so many great little touches and brilliant hosting. I think we forgot there was a time limit, we were just having fun! Can’t wait to play the next room now!

Just to note that this isn’t a scary room, though some children might find one aspect a bit creepy. We can’t do scary rooms but we had no problem at all with this one.