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Escape Prod: The Daltons’ Escape

Brussels, Jan 2018

I’m told that Lucky Luke the cowboy and his hapless adversaries the Daltons are comic book characters with fame rivalling that of Asterix or Tintin, but I’d somehow never come across them until this escape room. For those equally unfamiliar with them… (more)

Reykjavik Escape: The Scientist

Reykjavik, Jan 2018

Reykjavik Escape is, at time of writing, the only escape venue in Iceland. Located a little to the east of the main tourist district, they have a set of four rooms with fairly standard themes, and we picked the science-themed one over the prison, kid… (more)

Agent November: Christmas Crisis

London, Dec 2017

Christmas is in trouble again, after a crash has left Santa lying in a snowdrift and you with the responsibility for sorting everything out. At least, I think that was the premise – if I didn’t catch all the details of the story, I blame that on the … (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)

Lockhouse Escape Games: Armageddon

Cambridge, Aug 2017

For some reason both the escape game venues currently open in central Cambridge use room designs from Hungarian company TRAP. I played most of the TRAP games in Budapest some years ago, but Armageddon is one of the designs that didn’t exist at that t… (more)

Do Stuff Escape Games: Pie & Mash Shop

London, Aug 2017

There are common escape game themes and uncommon ones, but I’d confidently predict that Do Stuff are the only company in the world with a game themed around a pie & mash shop. There is more to the plot than just the cheap diner theme though: the owne… (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)

Rustic Riddles: Pan’s Problem

Norfolk, Jul 2017

Another weekend, and a chance to sample a new type of escape room experience. This time it was the turn of Rustic Riddles, which describes itself as “an outdoor escape game for the creative thinker and the curious”.

Set at the end of a fairly anonym… (more)

Make Your Escape: Spellbound

Derby, Jul 2017

A hot, muggy day to combat and an overnight stay beforehand was needed to make this double-header at Make Your Escape – Derby a possibility. Keen to branch these reviews out into the uncharted territories of the Midlands, we made the trek to Derby to… (more)

Deckscape: Test Time

Room-in-a-box, Jul 2017

In the increasingly crowded world of play at home escape games, Deckscape is the latest entrant. Test Time is designed to be the first in a series with the second game due out later this year.

There seems to be a progression towards ever simpler com… (more)