Tag Archives: a bit different

The Panic Room: Ten Fathoms Deep

Gravesend, Nov 2017

I try not to visit new rooms too soon after they open in case they’re still affected by teething problems. The Panic Room seem to open rooms at such a rate though that it’s been hard to find a time to visit when there wasn’t a fairly recently … (more)

The Panic Room: Dino Land

Gravesend, Nov 2017

Dino Land is a tricky game to review. It’s huge and impressive and silly, and I had a great time playing it. Be warned though that the emphasis is more on the theming and experience than the puzzle content, and for that reason some enthusiasts may fi… (more)

Norris Box: Kidnapped

Leeds, Oct 2017

Norris Box reverses the normal escape room concept: instead of a room from which you must escape, each of their products is a box that you unlock piece by piece. Their games are available on a mobile basis, where you order a box and they bring it to … (more)

Room Lockdown: Vegas Nights

London, Sep 2017

Vegas Nights is that rare beast, a game designed for exactly two players. The industry could do with more of these, since there’s clear demand for it – I imagine it’s the economics of it that keeps them in scarce supply, since the work for a company … (more)

Can You Escape: Operation H.E.R.O.

York, Sep 2017

This is the second room I’ve tackled from the excellent Can You Escape team, the first being the spaceship themed Operation Odyssey in Edinburgh.

There’s some similarity between their two locations, both hosted upstairs in generic over-shop office … (more)

Affect Laboratories: Interview

Tallinn, Jul 2017

First things first, this is the sort of game where you may prefer to know as little as possible about it before playing it. So you might want to stop at the one sentence version of this review, which is: this is a remarkable game that you should go p… (more)

Cyantist: Crystal Maze

Southampton, Aug 2017

Crystal Maze is quite different from what most enthusiasts may have come to expect from an escape game. The website tells you that “a big variety of puzzles are waiting to get solved”, and that’s exactly accurate: the game is designed around the solv… (more)

Elusion Escape Rooms: The Pandora Heist

Southampton, Aug 2017

A small handful of escape games give you a goal other than completing the game as quickly as possible, and Pandora Heist is one of them. This is a heist game where instead of a bank vault you’re sneaking into the collection chambers of another art th… (more)

Escape Room: Arcade Games

Riga, Jul 2017

Arcade Games is an escape room with a difference. It consists of two identical copies of the room with half the players in each, competing to complete the same set of activities first, where the activities are sports-themed tasks and activities inste… (more)

Escape Quest: Mr. Chuckles’ Funhouse

Macclesfield, Jul 2017

Mr. Chuckles’ Funhouse is an updated version of the earlier Escape Quest game Bad Clown, which was a 90 minute game with a live actor and a propensity to terrify. The current game is toned down to be less scary and of a normal length.

The game opens… (more)