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To be honest, I once played this game years ago when Top Escape was near Worcester (Top Barn). Now, I played it in its new location, and the setup works brilliantly for it. The game has evolved a little bit too, which is nice because it's now adjustable to the players' level (this is very cool, they can adjust it as you play, so you'll never notice when it happens)

My favourite part remains the briefing for this room. Immersion from the start! It definintely is a must-do for this fantastic brief. It's a solid, linear room, which is a good thing for less experienced players. But there are still plenty of a-ha moments for more experienced players too. Ultimately, I prefer the room in its new location. Its fits nicely, and if you are local, it's a neat escape experience to tick off your list. 

I always recommend this room to other players

Very puzzle-driven room. You get to wear a mask as part of the gameplay and mine has mesh all over the eyes with made it so hard to see clearly as the light was hitting the mesh and reflecting off it 😓 Except for this frustrating part (literally could not see a f£cking thing) the rest of the room played nicely. 

Lots of puzzles to play with! Unfortunately, we only got around to play the room just before the site shut down

An original room with a lot of attention to details and care. 

They have just the right space for a scary room! 

A lot of clever puzzles, including some that you don’t see often in escape rooms. 

This isn’t a beginner’s room because there’s a lot to do. In the region, it’s the only scary room I can think of that doesn’t do cheap gore and focuses on atmospheric puzzles instead. Very well done without being over-the-top

It’s a good room that suffers from being next to their 3 other rooms, which are even better

I very clearly remember using a giant knitting needle as a makeshift sword to protect myself from the live actor in the room, which very probably scared the living shit out of him. Not sure if terror shared is truly halved but it was funny in hindsight!

I always recommend playing both Utopia and Dystopia back-to-back. Smart rooms! 

Perhaps the most surprising and unique ending  I’ve seen

I can’t fault it but I didn’t really enjoy the room. Perhaps this isn’t quite my theme.

Such a huge and exciting room with a nice mix of physical and thinking puzzles

This may feel like a plain room at first glance, but don’t be fooled. There’s a lot to do. The natural layout of the room, and its stairs area, can feel a little claustrophobic for some players (and it may be difficult to navigate depending on your agility). It was a puzzle-driven experience which can be great fun. Some props were a little damaged, or had been disturbed by the previous team, se we spent unnecessarily long trying to solve something that should have been easy… so it was a little frustrating (the clue on how to operate the device didn’t work given that the device itself could not work 🤷🏻‍♀️)

A busy room but where you can progress fairly fast despite the amount of puzzles. Also, the second part of the room is a lovely surprise

Something different and a lot of fun to complete. Such variety of puzzles and all so satisfying to solve

Amazing flow and some really challenging puzzles that were satisfying to solve

Whatever that was! Lots of running around and plenty of puzzles that had no business being that frustrating

It’s a busy room but great fun with lots of different puzzles. When props and puzzles work, this is awesome. 

I replayed it years later and some stuff didn’t work anymore unfortunately.

Appalling quality from start to end

We laughed so much playing this remotely and chatting with our host. 

we played it online, but absolutely loved it and even though the Telescape version did do it the justice it deserves, it shows how amazing this little game can be. 

Such a jewel of a game! Smart from start to end with a lot of different and exciting puzzles. At some point, most of our team decided to sit inside a small metal container, which was probably the highlight of the game for us (except for the amazing effects later in the game) and still makes us laugh now. 

Nevertheless, I always recommend this dino game for the execution, immersion, and sheer joy of playing it. 

Gosh, that was a frustrating game! This didn't click with me and I found it really unnecessarily convoluted at times

lots of satisfying physical puzzles that work

We were among the first to play Sea Quest and it was really exciting even at the time. 

Such a fantastically immersive decor and a strong puzzle narrative. Just the right level of challenge and some puzzles I hadn't seen before!

There's so much potential and some truly frustrating moments where things get too fiddly and don't work. 

A nice pirate room with a lot of immersive decor that makes you believe for a moment that you are truly onboard a ship. 

There was a lot of interesting puzzles and tech, and when everything works it's an absolute pleasure. 

This was a really beautifully designed room, but the clueing system was really not to my liking. You basically had a chart on the wall with a series of numbers attached to specific puzzles and you'd dial the one you needed. It felt like a self-help system while I was hoping there'd be more personal game master involvement. 

It felt like zero theming efforts were given, and the game flow also felt quite bare. I really didn't enjoy this game. 

This was a really neat little zombie-themed room that doesn't get over the top in the zombie decor (it's been done often and frequently badly). I really love the angle they took and the progression of the game. 

Some fun active puzzles too. 

An absolutely lovely set with a variety of puzzles, and some really satisfying resolutions too. 

This is a great family game, as there is plenty of do for different type of players. 

A vampire theme - I am not sure what the room looked like in the first location. When we played it, it had been moved in one of the other buildings, and I don't know whether this impacted the flow or not. I didn't really enjoy the room as so much was broken in it and it truly affected the gameplay. 

Also some puzzles fully malfunctioned. They would have been brilliant if they had worked, but somehow they didn't. So, as a result, the game felt more difficult than it probably should have been. 

An original plot for once with a neat series of logical puzzles to find a missing rock star. 

I really enjoyed the puzzle variety, with a fair mix of logic, hands-on, physical, sensory and observation puzzles. There were some puzzles I hadn't come across before, which was nice. Hosting as per usual was perfect, and honestly, I was really excited about the real, playable instruments in the room. 

Not quite my favourite game at this location, as this one is on the longer side (over 60 min) and very puzzle-driven, but it is a satisfactory resolution. 

Some puzzles elements required a lot of tweaking and we were even advised to use force to get them to work (!)

There are some truly satisfying puzzles to solve for everyone who's still a kid at heart. 

This is a fun and exciting theme for families. I can see how the room is designed for entertain players of all ages, and it would hit its target a lot better if all puzzles worked a lot more smoothly. 

The room has been designed specifically to sail on the Shakespeare's "brand", so to say. So, it feels a little contrived as it is basically an excuse to attach the label Shakespeare to a local escape room. 

That being said, the game was pleasant enough, and while there were some moments of uncertainty (as the narrative and puzzle flow were not intuitive at times), our game master was quick to react. We had a lovely game master who cheered up us when we exited and said what she liked about our team (which I find so much better and more engaging than the usual approach of asking what I liked about the room when I've had zero time to actually think about it)

It's simple but it works. I didn't think I'd enjoy the theme, but the room was so satisfying to play that I was hooked instantly!