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Unlock!: The Ocean’s Heart, N/a (play at home)
Played: 26.09.2026 Team size: 1
Unlock!: The Ascent, N/a (play at home)
Team size: 1
Teammates:jimmynelson
Played: 1 Sep 2026 Team size: 2 Time taken: 47 Outcome: Successful escape!
great hostingfamily friendly
Teammates:jimmynelson
Played: 28 Aug 2026 Team size: 3 Time taken: 58:17 Outcome: Successful escape!
hi-techimmersivegreat hosting
Played: 31.07.2026 Team size: 2 Time taken: 58.47 Outcome: Successful escape!
Teammates:jimmynelson
Played: 21 Jul 2026 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivegreat hostingepic👻scary
Played: 22 Jun 2026 Team size: 2 Outcome: Failed :-(
poor hosting

I very much agree with the earlier review that said this game is just ok. However, although that review was hardly glowing, I nonetheless  got drawn in by the comment that suggested it might have some similarities with a well-known company based in Macclesfield. Regrettably, I can confirm it is nothing like it.

The game doesn’t really succeed in making you feel like you’re part of a heist, it’s more just puzzles in a room.

I accept we will fail rooms here and there playing as a pair, but it was a bit odd to be kind of told off for attempting it as a two (or something about not reading the small print) despite it being described as playable by two. Another frustration was being told we would only need to use things once (pretty common) when in fact it turned out there was a mechanism that was pretty central to the game that needed to be used on multiple occasions. 

Teammates:Richard Hamon
Played: 21 Jun 2026 Team size: 2 Time taken: 74:49 Outcome: Successful escape!
originalfamily friendly
Played: 7 Mar 2026 Team size: 4 Time taken: 41:52 Outcome: Successful escape!
funny

Good fun and enjoyed the actor element, but too many unrequested hints given how quickly we got out

Teammates:jimmynelson
Played: 28 Feb 2026 Team size: 2 Time taken: 79:08 Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulimmersivegreat hosting😨creepy
Teammates:jimmynelson
Played: 28 Feb 2026 Team size: 2
immersivestory-drivenepicvery easy
Played: 18.02.2026 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!

Played in English

Played: 31 Jan 2026 Team size: 5 Outcome: Successful escape!
story-drivengreat hostingfamily friendlyquite easy
Played: 23 Jan 2026 Team size: 2 Time taken: 94
beautifulhi-techimmersivevery difficult
Teammates:Richard Hamon
Played: 17 Jan 2026 Team size: 2 Time taken: 52:28 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivestory-drivengreat hosting
Played: 1 Jan 2026 Team size: 1
quite difficult
Played: 16 Nov 2025 Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulimmersiveepic
Played: 16 Nov 2025 Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulimmersivegreat hosting

My favourite venue in the UK. I love everything about this place

Played: 15 Nov 2025
great hostingfamily friendly
Played: 15 Nov 2025 Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!
family friendly
Played: 15 Nov 2025 Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!

First of all this is such a great room in so many ways. But in a room with so so much great stuff to solve, why oh why make us spend so much time with a grabby machine, and fiddling around with so many keys that don’t seem to fit very well! I expect this is to give someone a job in larger teams, but these things were a bit of an unwelcome time waster from what was otherwise a fantastic room 

Played: 15 Nov 2025 Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!
quite easy
Played: 15 Nov 2025 Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!
Played: 15 Nov 2025 Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!
Played: 14 Nov 2025 Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!
quite difficult

This had so much potential, with some great custom props, but the way it has been put together felt so messy - flow, signposting etc. Never really felt confident in anything we were doing

Played: 14 Nov 2025 Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!
Played: 06.12.2025 Team size: 1 Outcome: Successful escape!
Played: 12 Oct 2025 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
Teammates:Richard Hamon
Played: 25 Sep 2025 Team size: 2 Time taken: 58:33 Outcome: Successful escape!
originalgreat hostingfamily friendly
Teammates:jimmynelson
Played: 24 Aug 2025 Team size: 2 Time taken: 57.23 Outcome: Successful escape!
great hostingintensequite difficult
Teammates:jimmynelson
Played: 23 Aug 2025 Team size: 2 Time taken: 52.46 Outcome: Successful escape!
family friendly
Teammates:jimmynelson
Played: 23 Aug 2025 Team size: 2 Time taken: 45 Outcome: Successful escape!
family friendly
Teammates:jimmynelson
Played: 22 Aug 2025 Team size: 2 Time taken: 41.37 Outcome: Successful escape!
value for moneyfamily friendlyquite easy
Teammates:jimmynelson
Played: 21 Aug 2025 Team size: 2 Time taken: 52 Outcome: Successful escape!
value for moneyfamily friendlyquite easy

I had pretty low expectations for this but turned out to be quite a fun family game. Not particularly difficult, but everything worked logically and I can’t really fault it.

Played: 27 Jun 2025 Team size: 4 Time taken: 51:44 Outcome: Successful escape!
great hosting

Really fun game, everything was satisfyingly logical, and a great host too, thank you

Teammates:jimmynelson
Played: 11 May 2025 Team size: 2 Time taken: 59:55 Outcome: Successful escape!
value for moneygreat hostingfun
Played: 19.04.2025 Team size: 6 Time taken: 55:55 Outcome: Successful escape!
Played: 6 Apr 2025 Team size: 1
😨creepy
Played: 7 Mar 2025 Team size: 4 Time taken: 55 Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulimmersivegreat hosting
Played: 6 Feb 2025 Team size: 4 Time taken: 41:34 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivegreat hostingfamily friendlyquite easy
Played: 31 Jan 2025 Team size: 1 Time taken: 63:54
very difficult
Played: 21 Jan 2025 Team size: 1 Time taken: 33:29
immersiveintense
Played: 12 Jan 2025 Team size: 1
😨creepy
Played: 10 Jan 2025 Team size: 1 Time taken: 40:17

Really enjoyed this apart from the final puzzle - another case of Unlock! having a nice idea for the finale, but the result being a bit too fiddly and imprecise

Played: 9 Jan 2025 Team size: 1 Time taken: 26:15

I love Unlock! in general, but this was one of my least favourite. There wasn’t much of a story/adventure, which is perhaps understandable for a shorter game, but the puzzles weren’t very satisfying either - it felt like one big exercise in memorising lists of pretty dull  tasks (the theme isn’t a particularly exciting one)

Played: 6 Jan 2025 Team size: 1 Time taken: 85:02
quite difficult
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