Tag Archives: Hamburg

Hidden in Hamburg: Neptune’s Curse

Hamburg, Feb 2025

Hidden in Hamburg have games on two different ships; Neptune’s Curse is set on the Rickmer Rickmers, which meant a brisk ten minute walk from the Cap San Diego where we played the previous one. This ship is a late-era sailing ship, over a cent… (more)

Hidden in Hamburg: Golden Skull

Hamburg, Feb 2025

Hidden in Hamburg are famously based not in a normal venue but on board a pair of ships, permanently moored at the docks. The Golden Skull is on the Cap San Diego, a retired cargo ship that is also a museum, entry to which is included in the price of… (more)

Big Break: The Toymaker

Hamburg, Feb 2025

Each of the three rooms we played at Big Break were thoroughly enjoyable, but The Toymaker was the one we’d come for, and it was indeed in a class of its own.

The premise is that you’re in the store and workshop of a legendary toymaker, who has devo… (more)

Big Break: Time Travel

Hamburg, Feb 2025

Time travel is often a mix and match sort of theme, and so it was here – essentially a sequence of mostly independent mini games, each with its own style of decor and puzzles. Given the whole of history to choose from, some designers go for more obvi… (more)

Big Break: Insomnia

Hamburg, Feb 2025

This is a premise that at another venue could easily have been a horror room: plagued by insomnia, you undergo experimental therapy to enter your own dreamworld to defeat your inner demons, before you’re trapped there forever. But while this does hav… (more)

Team Escape Hamburg: Aus Versehen Apokalypse

Hamburg, Feb 2025

This was a game that I booked primarily for logistical reasons, looking for something that I could squeeze into a small afternoon gap in a tight schedule of games. So I didn’t have particularly high hopes for it, particularly since Team Escape is a m… (more)