Joe Brown

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🔐Games played

Joe Brown has played 160 escape games, including:

  • 🔓 137 'normal' escape games
  • 🔍 6 mini (<30 min) escape games
  • 📹 6 remote livestream (avatar or audio-led) games
  • 🖥 10 online / digital escape games
  • 🎭 7 'escape room ish' experiences
and rated 159 of them, and reviewed 152 of them

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  • 🗓 First escape game: 7 Jun 2015
  • 🗓 Most recent escape game: 18 Nov 2024
  • ⏳ Fastest finish time: 52 minutes
  • 👥 Usually plays in a team of 4


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Played: 18 Nov 2024 Team size: 4
Great atmosphere and story, though fairly basic puzzles
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Played: 18 Nov 2024 Team size: 4Definitely a wow moment and some great theming, let down a little by a few unsatisfying puzzles
Definitely a wow moment and some great theming, let down a little by a few unsatisfying puzzles
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Played: 18 Nov 2024 Team size: 4
Probably the most traditional room currently from this company, solid set and puzzles
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Played: 9 Oct 2024
Solid theme, smaller room suited to small groups. Some good story line elements but quite basic puzzles, maybe too much reliance on mental maths!
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Played: 24 Sep 2024 Team size: 2
Great sets and vibe, a very immersive and wide ranging experience!
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Played: 15 Sep 2024 Team size: 2
Incredible technology, one of the best rooms for puzzles matching story, it's a must play.
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Played: 9 Sep 2024 Team size: 3
Lovely host, fun theme! Great soundtrack, we had a fun time!
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Played: 9 Sep 2024 Team size: 3
A lovely host, an incredible set and some super unique puzzles, sad it's going away soon!
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Played: 29 Jun 2024 Team size: 4
Lots to see in a great set with solid puzzles.
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Played: 29 Jun 2024 Team size: 4
A fun stranger things room with some good recreations of bits from the show, but fairly standard puzzles.
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Played: 28 Jun 2024 Team size: 4
Strong first showing from this company with some cool bits of tech and some exciting moments, just needed a clearer plot bigger finale to bring it all together!
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Played: 8 Apr 2024 Team size: 6
originalimmersivestory-driven
Great atmosphere and some unique mechanics, fun finale!
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Played: 29 Mar 2024 Team size: 4
hi-techcleverimmersive
Impressive tech and set, some theatrical and some wow moments! Only criticism: a little too many of the same style of puzzle.
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Played: 24 Aug 2022
Not an escape room, more of an immersive walkthrough (we spent around 2 hours exploring) but with some seriously impressive theming! Returning soon to see the expansion. 
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Played: 26 Feb 2024
Impressive set with a lot of variety and fun mechanics thrown in, a real blast with a great host. Our only nit-pick was we think for the reputation it has we expected some slightly more layered puzzles.
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Played: 25 Feb 2024 Team size: 4
High tech and visceral, loved the range of puzzles and the scifi set, felt like a step up in quality from their first room - potentially refurbished since they've moved locations?
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Played: 25 Feb 2024 Team size: 4
Lots to do in this room, it's definitely a high level of difficulty, but I think the set wasn't at the standards of their other (brilliant) rooms
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Played: 24 Feb 2024 Team size: 4
A nice set and satisfying puzzles, Escape plan always do nice chunky wooden puzzles with a few surprises, will definitely be back for their new room!
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Played: 22 Dec 2023 Team size: 3v3
More brilliant sets and puzzles from the TimeTrap team, we love the versus mode and some of the out of the box moments!
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Played: 16 Dec 2023 Team size: 4
A fun room with lots of high tech puzzles, good for newer players
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Played: 9 Dec 2023 Team size: 3
Lots to see and do in a well thought out multiroom set with a great host!
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Team size: 4
Few fairly unique puzzles, would be a good beginner friendly room.
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Played: 28 Oct 2023 Team size: 4
Fun atmosphere, felt like a high tech new room that ran slick. Makes me want to try their other rooms.
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Played: 10 Oct 2023 Team size: 4
Some fun surprises and great use of space for a boat!
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Played: 21 Aug 2023 Team size: 4
Some unique sets and high budget almost theme park level experiences but a bit lighter on puzzles than their other rooms. I think our expectations were set the highest due to it doing so well on TERPECA but unfortunately this room somehow seemed the most worn and glitchy of the three we did.
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Played: 21 Aug 2023 Team size: 4
This room featured one of the best moments in an escape room for me, really impressive combination of tech theming and puzzles.
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Played: 20 Aug 2023 Team size: 4

Strong atmospheric start to an impressive set off puzzles well themed to the story. Some great mechanics and good team challenges.

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Played: 30 Jul 2023 Team size: 2
Great hosting, fun theme and fun moments, really enjoyed, would be a bit crammed with more than two people though.
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Played: 29 Jul 2023 Team size: 4
Plenty of rooms, couple of fun bits but definitely suffered from being a bit run down and overhyped!
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Played: 8 May 2023 Team size: 6
A nice big multi-room set with plenty of puzzles to do, but I think my expectations were set a bit high by online reviews - most puzzles were simple code padlock based, I think I'd expected slightly more tech for a fairly new room
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Played: 18 Mar 2023 Team size: 3

Amazing building, multiple rooms, decent host and some special immersive moments with cool tech and theming just let down by sometimes basic puzzles or sections that won't work without help from the game master. This made what could have been a really enjoyable experience quite stressful!

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Played: 9 Mar 2023 Team size: 4
Great improvement in theming and some more techy elements than their previous rooms, but still a lot of searching around for codes to put in locks in a room built in 2023 is a little disappointing to me, a little too short without a conclusive ending.
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Played: 2 Mar 2023 Team size: 2

Great levels of immersion, variety of high quality sets and theatrical moments made this such a fun ride throughout.

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Played: 20 Feb 2023 Team size: 4

A couple puzzles had logic leaps which wasn't the case with other hounds rooms - perhaps this was their first room? But some of the other puzzles were really unique and really on theme. The immersion was top notch with this one, I think the russian portal vibe just really worked for me! 

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Played: 20 Feb 2023 Team size: 4

The hosts are always brilliant, the sets are great, the puzzles are really decent and there's always wow moments with Hounds, really enjoyed this room.

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Played: 19 Feb 2023 Team size: 4

Another large multiroom experience from Tulleys. We had a more experienced and enthusiastic GM than past experiences with them which helped the enjoyment too. For a newer room some of the puzzles felt a little dated but an action packed 60 minutes with plenty of unique elements

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Played: 19 Feb 2023 Team size: 4 Outcome: Failed :-(
Large well themed set with tonnes to do. They should absolutely should be made clear that you should book the 90 minute room worth of content for most groups - we failed after 60 minutes frustrated at the lack of help from the GM. We would have booked a 90 minute slot if this was made clearer on the website (it's a small bit of text that you should email them to request a 90 minute booking) - I don't think rebooking to replay the room is something most people want to do but it felt like they'd almost designed it this way.
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Played: 4 Feb 2023 Team size: 2
Unique theme, fun puzzles and decent story! We let ourselves down a bit with a hangover, but it was a nice logical room
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Played: 2 Jan 2023 Team size: 4
A couple of cool moments early on, but definitely some logic leaps - moments that require the game master to tell you what to do that they've refused to fix!
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Played: 11 Dec 2022 Team size: 4
surprisingly decent sets and large layout with no padlocks. But unfortunately low number of puzzles which felt unintuitive and basic
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Played: 29 Jul 2022

Great big sets and enthusiastic actors, just very puzzle light so don't go if you want to do many puzzles - or complete them for that matter as they'll rush you along. Some great physical bits though, worth it if you can go when it's on sale.

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Played: 13 Aug 2022

Awesome immersive experience, will be returning in the future for other expansions

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Played: 11 Oct 2022 Team size: 3
really unusual set - fun game mechanics, and lots of surprises and new to me puzzles, we had a great time.
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Played: 9 Oct 2022 Team size: 2
we had a slow start, this felt like a decent old school escape room, definitely improved as we went on with some surprising bits
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Played: 8 Apr 2016 Team size: 4
Great theming, but a small room, some unintuitive puzzles and an unhelpful host made our experience feel like a bit of a let down.
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Played: 21 Dec 2021 Team size: 4
some really unique mechanics and strong immersion resulted in a great 90 minute room, had a great time.
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Played: 24 Sep 2022 Team size: 5
Fun varied set, lots of dramatic moments, awesome host!
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Played: 15 Sep 2022 Team size: 4
So many wow moments, unique mind boggling parts, it's a must play!
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