Em_Jess713

Full disclosure: I work at XscapeNow which is now the sister-company to Level Up.

That being said, my friend said this was her favourite room she’d ever played! It was bonkers from start to finish and a lot of fun. The set is incredibly immersive and the live actors really add to this.

If you’re going to play, do make sure you have at least one able-bodied member of your team capable of climbing!

Genuinely the best room I've ever played. The live magician in the room really adds to the experience. It was well worth the 3 hour+ train journey to play it! I highly recommend playing the live magician version if you're able to.

The rooms at Shrewsbury Prison have the potential to be really amazing. It's a fantastic setting, and so immersive.

On the one hand, the lack of TVs/proper clue system in the room makes it even more so immersive - on the other hand, there were no cameras, and the Games Master was hosting several groups at once. This meant we had to describe what we'd done up until that point for him to be able to give us a clue, which we felt was eating into our time.

The host was great, and angrily told us to line up, when he entered our cell to give us a clue for something (very immersive). However, through no fault of his, trying to keep track of that many groups is far too difficult (I say this as a Games Master myself).

Parts of the room were also broken. Because the host couldn't watch us, he didn't intervene until we got frustrated and asked for a clue - at which point he admitted it was broken and just gave us the next piece of the puzzle.

I'd love to see these rooms done up, and would happily come and play again if they were refreshed.

I'm hesitant to rate this room so low, as the guy who runs these rooms seems genuinely enthusiastic. Unfortunately, we did not enjoy our experience here.

The concept of the room was really good, and I imagine this could be a great room. However, many parts of the puzzles were actually broken and did not work. We'd been warned that something might not work prior to going in, but were told this wouldn't impact the game. Unfortunately, this wasn't the case.

This was a very busy room, and I think having a larger group would've helped - so perhaps this is better suited to bigger groups, rather than 2 players as we were.

In addition, we could hear the host giving clues to a group in another room, which was quite off putting. Running two rooms at once also meant there were occasions where we had to wait for a clue, until he was finished with the other group.