Tag Archives: atmospheric

The Game: Le métro (The Metro)

Paris, Oct 2018

In the niche world of obsessive escape room fandom, some games and some companies develop a reputation. The Game is one of these, with The Metro likely to be near the top of the must-play list of those addicts whose Paris holiday planning is based ar… (more)

Hint Hunt: Pirates

Paris, Oct 2018

Just over five years ago I played my first escape room, at Hunt Hunt in London. I played my second with them as well, since at the time no other U.K. venues existed. Although I loved both games at the time, they were primitive by modern standards and… (more)

Escape Lab: PC Sécurité – Base B423 (Central Security Post – Base B423)

Paris, Oct 2018

Escape Lab is a curious experiment, a shared space where numerous different escape room operators can run their games, a business model that I could imagine succeeding elsewhere. PC Sécurité is from a design company named Oneway (previously Hydre), a… (more)

Lock Academy: L.A. Confidential

Paris, Oct 2018

Despite the name this is nothing to do with the 1997 movie starring Russell Crowe. The L.A. stands for Lock Academy, the detective school that provides a common setting for all this venue’s games, and your task is… to relax in the Academy’s recreat… (more)

Wirral Escape Rooms: The Curse of the Golden Lion

Wirral, Sep 2018

I was just a little bit nervous about playing and reviewing this game, because it’s designed and run by the escape room blogger behind Brit of an Escape Habit, one of the most prolific and well-known … (more)

Time Race: Vault 17

Bury, Sep 2018

Vault 17 is a game with a reputation. A couple of months after it opened, word spread that it had a zero percent success rate – not a single team had beaten it. Of course, that’s not a good thing in an escape room. It’s easy to make an escape room un… (more)

Trapped In Bury: Interstellar

Bury, Sep 2018

Interstellar was the second game we played at Trapped In with a sci-fi theme, and the difference was remarkable. Where Time Machine used silver foil and spare electronics as decoration, Interstellar is in a different league. Though not up to Hollywoo… (more)

London Escaped Ltd: The Prisoner

London, Aug 2018

Whitechapel seems to be the place to be in London this year, at least for escaping, with three companies opening new games in the area in a short space of time. London Escaped have launched with two games, both using Russian-made room designs that al… (more)

Trapp’d: Exordium

Northamptonshire, Aug 2018

Once again you are humanity’s last hope – this time on a mission to Mars to find a mysterious artefact that is our last chance to repair the ravages of runaway global warming. Or something like that, anyway. Trapp’d provide printed cards with verbose… (more)

Trapp’d: 46 Below

Northamptonshire, Aug 2018

It is a policy with Trapp’d to supply all players with blindfolds before they enter a room, so that they don’t see their surroundings before the game starts. With their abandoned mine and American West games they also give all players plastic shoe pr… (more)