Tag Archives: good for experienced teams

Escape Arena: The Last Adventure of Indiana Jones

Bucharest, May 2018

By what I can only assume is a curious coincidence, every time I’ve played an escape game hosted in a pub it’s turned out well. (And no, I don’t drink before playing games, so it’s not because of the reviewer equivalent of beer goggles!) Perhaps less… (more)

Captive Escape Room: Captive Outside Reality

Bucharest, May 2018

The premise for this game sounded both intriguingly abstract and worryingly simple: after a “session of collective incantation” (Saturday night karaoke, perhaps??) you are suddenly spun away into a different reality and trapped there. My default expe… (more)

60 Minutes: The Lord of the Rings

Bucharest, May 2018

Some themes are a natural fit for the escape room format – such as jailbreak scenarios, or anything where you’re trapped in a smallish space. As a tale about an epic continent-spanning journey, Lord of the Rings is a less obvious fit; but 60 Minutes’… (more)

The Void: Coven

Bucharest, May 2018

First of many games that I played on a visit to Bucharest, Coven was a particularly high quality game amidst impressively strong competition. The website and intro video suggest a full-on horror style of game and my teammate was dubious about my choi… (more)

Bewilder Box: Judgement D.A.V.E.

Brighton, May 2018

There must be a great deal of pressure in coming up with a sequel to a game as well-known as the first Bewilder Box room, finding ways to live up to expectations and to do something new without losing what made the original work so well. Judgement D…. (more)

Guildford Escape Rooms: The Case of the Missing Gun

Guildford, Apr 2018

The original room at Guildford Escape Rooms is dramatically different to its sibling game, in tone, style and setting, but achieves a similar high level of quality. The Case of the Missing Gun is based in 1930s Prohibition, and where the venue’s othe… (more)

Cryptx: The Jewellery Heist

Cambridgeshire, Mar 2018

Located half an hour’s drive outside Cambridge city centre, Cryptx isn’t the easiest location to get to but from their booking calendar seem to manage to attract a steady stream of teams nonetheless. They emphasise that they’re an enthusiast-run oper… (more)

Deadlocked Escape Rooms: The Testing Chamber

Reading, Jan 2018

There are not many computer games I’ve played in the last eighteen years, but one of the few I have is Portal. If you’re also familiar with that, then you’ll recognise immediately the tongue-in-cheek dark humour of Testing Chamber. This game starts w… (more)

Deadlocked Escape Rooms: The Phoenix Research

Reading, Jan 2018

Located on the west side of Reading, Deadlocked currently have two games. Their first is Phoenix Research, named for the documents you’re trying to retrieve: the critical notes of a missing scientist employed by the dubious Wexell Corporation.

If yo… (more)

Exciting Escapes: Dark Deeds and Groceries

Basingstoke, Dec 2017

With three successful games under their belt at their Southampton branch, Exciting Escapes have expanded to a second branch in Basingstoke, with one copy of their original game plus two new ones. Dark Deeds is the first of those new games and has a 1… (more)