Whether you’re digesting mince pies or getting ready to party in the new year, here’s a quick run-down of December’s new escape rooms:

Greater London

🔒 Probably the biggest news for London the whole year, and somehow I didn’t include it in last month’s update: clueQuest opened their fifth game, IAMAI. This features a rogue AI, an oversized Lego brick and a whole lot of technology.

🔒 In Camden, it looks like Mazer Zone have availability in their booking calendar for their third room Demon’s Domain from tomorrow.

South East England

🔒 Dream Vault is a new company in Reading, one of the UK’s escaping capitals; they’re launching with Smuggler’s Grove, which is set inside a child’s dream of pirate treasure.

Also new, from last month’s update:
🔒 Absolutely Escapes Maidenhead: Professor Blackthorne’s Final Invention

Last call for:
❗️ Puzzalogical Escape Rooms (Bracknell): The Secret of the Vault (closing 11th Jan)

South West England

🔒 Bolted Escape Rooms opened in Saint Austell back in April, but I hadn’t spotted it until now: they currently have two games, It’s Not Fair and No Honour Among Thieves.
🔒 Firmly entrenched as Bath’s most recommended venue, Tempo have now launched their second room, Raiders of the Lost Art – no, that’s not a typo.

Wales

🔒 Escape Rooms Cardiff have revamped their horror room Oculus, and the new version is Oculus 2 – Harold’s House. I’m not certain to what extent the game content has been changed.
🔒 Also in Cardiff, Puzzled Escape Rooms are due to open spaceship-themed Going Up in mid-January.

East Midlands

🔒 Escape Coalville’s new room Arctic Mayday has a wintry theme – note that this is the same design previously available from Trapp’d as 46 Below.
🔒 Right on time for panto season, Tension Twisted Realities in Lincoln updated their New Theatre Royal – Snow White room to New Theatre Royal Room – Robin Hood. (Oh no they didn’t! Oh yes they did!)

Last call for:
❗️ Rushden Escape Rooms: Retro (closing 31 Jan)

East of England

🎄 A belated addition to the Xmas games list from Angle Escape in Peterborough, with Candy Cane – The Vault.

North West England

🎄 The Escaporium Liverpool also opened a Christmas game that didn’t make last month’s list; theirs is Snowbody’s Home.

Also new, from last month’s update:
🔒 Houdini’s Escape Room Experience Warrington: Apocalypse: Shelter 23, Captain Blackheart’s Curse, Sneaky Finders

Last call for:
❗️ Compendium Escape Rooms (Bury): UI-55 (closing 28 Feb)

Yorkshire and the Humber

🔒 Escape Room Scarborough replaced War Room with Spyfall: War Room 2. They also have a non escape room experience Traitor, based of course on the TV show, opening in late Jan.
🔒 The Leeds branch of The Escapologist replaced Sherlocked In with a different deduction room, CLU3D0.

Last call for:
❗️ Escape Rooms Beverley: The Great Chimney Escape (closing 31 Jan)

North East England

🔒 In Sunderland, The Strategy opened a sweetly-themed new game, with The Chocolate Factory.

Scotland

🔒 And Escape Stirling have also opened a new room: in The Bunker, where your shelter from the apocalypse might turn out to be less safe than expected.

Plus the usual link if you’re looking for a last-minute Xmas game or two to liven up your January: https://escapethereview.co.uk/location/xmas.