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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. 

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

Played in English

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

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 

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

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.

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

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

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)