Tag Archives: atmospheric

Time Run: Lance of Longinus

London, Jul 2015

Time Run’s debut room raised the bar for escape games everywhere – it’s a cinematic experience way beyond any normal escape room.

Even the entrance door is special, a beautifully fashioned custom creation. You may get to admire it for a while, since… (more)

This is a rather unusual, distinctive room. Firstly, it’s deliberately and explicitly linear, with one puzzle leading to the next until you reach the end. Secondly, there’s pretty much no searching involved. It’s also a pretty and at times quite poet… (more)

Questomatica: Arcade Invasion

Amsterdam, Aug 2016

The theme and decor are an absolute treat to anyone who grew up playing 80s arcade games. Like Claustrophobia’s other games, it eschews padlocks and goes for creative, on-theme puzzles. They make fantastic use of lighting and effects to sign-post whe… (more)

Questomatica: WakeUp!

Amsterdam, Aug 2016

I’ve played a few games themed as being in someone’s mind or dreams, but this one is definitely the most successful at creating a dream-like experience. Instead of finding codes to padlocks, you progress with an increasing feel for the dream-logic of… (more)

Enigma Quests: School of Witchcraft & Wizardry

London, Jul 2016

Fans of a certain best-selling series of children’s books will particularly like this room, but it’s a lot of fun whether you’ve read them or not. The room gives you a grade according to how much of the room you’ve completed, a friendlier approach th… (more)

Claustrophobia: Stormy Ocean

Tallinn, Jun 2016

Short of having the room rock from side to side or spraying you with cold salt water, they’d be hard put to improve the decor here.

The room was a succession of good on-theme puzzles, with barely a padlock to be seen. It’s perhaps on the easy side, … (more)

Enter the Oubliette: Escape from New Pelagia

London, Mar 2016

It is a tragedy that this room had to close after losing their venue, since it was probably my most highly recommended escape room – fingers crossed they manage to re-open somewhere else.

The immersion and attention to detail was at a whole differen… (more)

Handmade Mysteries: Lady Chastity’s Reserve

London, Aug 2015

Instead of trying to escape, you’re trying to retrieve a bottle of wine; while that makes little practical difference, it’s nice to vary the genre a little. The room is one of the physically smallest I’ve done, though we had a team of five and it fel… (more)

Hell in a Cell

Bristol, Nov 2016

Hell in a Cell is a room for a large team, and makes heavy use of darkness and atmospherics. The puzzles would be mostly pretty easy in a brightly lit room… but they’re mostly pretty easy anyway, because the staff push you hard in the right directi… (more)

Exite: Airplane

Helsinki, Jun 2016

Gorgeous theming made this room an absolute pleasure to play. We completed it very quickly, and maybe it’s on the easy side – though partly that’s just because the puzzle sequence is put together such that the game has an intuitive flow from one poin… (more)

Tag Archives: atmospheric

Time Run: Lance of Longinus

London, Jul 2015

AIEscape: Leo’s Path

London, Nov 2016

Questomatica: Arcade Invasion

Amsterdam, Aug 2016

Questomatica: WakeUp!

Amsterdam, Aug 2016

Enigma Quests: School of Witchcraft & Wizardry

London, Jul 2016

Claustrophobia: Stormy Ocean

Tallinn, Jun 2016

Enter the Oubliette: Escape from New Pelagia

London, Mar 2016

Handmade Mysteries: Lady Chastity’s Reserve

London, Aug 2015

Hell in a Cell

Bristol, Nov 2016

Exite: Airplane

Helsinki, Jun 2016