Tag Archives: Escape Peterborough

Escape Peterborough: The Bank Heist

Peterborough, Sep 2019

The Bank Vault is of course a heist game. It’s also designed to be a variable score game, where your success is based on how much money you get out with, not how quickly you finish. Staying past the 60 minute mark is a failure, but the gamemaster pro… (more)

Escape Peterborough: Buried Alive

Peterborough, Sep 2019

If you’ve played a few games at the Escape chain, you might feel you have a good idea of what to expect from the company. Be warned that Buried Alive is very much the exception. It’s a distinctive game built around a specific idea, and your enjoyment… (more)

Escape Peterborough: The Great Wine Cellar Swindle

Peterborough, Sep 2019

Each of the three games Escape have built in the Peterborough Museum vaults uses the space in a different way, relating to the crypt’s history: as a mortuary, as a Civil War hiding place, and most prosaically as a wine cellar. The game room in fact c… (more)

Escape Peterborough: The Hunt

Peterborough, Feb 2018

My experience of Escape is that their games are reliably decent, but that the decor and atmosphere are rarely a particular strength – typically a nice enough set of props and themed puzzle components but usually starting from generic office space tha… (more)

Escape Peterborough: Witchcraft and Wizardry

Peterborough, Feb 2017

Second in our play through of Escape Peterborough’s new trio of rooms was “Witchcraft and Wizardry”… and as a certified muggle, I can say for certain it has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with Harry Potter. Honest. Maybe. Possibly 😉 I can sa… (more)