Tag Archives: horror

Exit: The Abandoned Cabin

Room-in-a-box, Mar 2017

Rated 3.5 out of 5
The Exit range of boxed escape games by KOSMOS were previously only available in German, and have finally been released for English audiences.
Like the ThinkFun games, the game uses a code-wheel mechanism. Each puzzle in the game is marked with a sy… (more)

FunEscape: Lost Girl

Warsaw, Mar 2017

Rated between 2 and 3 out of 5
This room started with great promise. After an interesting initial setup in the first room, I was very disappointed with the remainder.
They had gone for a dark room, which can be done very well; this wasn’t. At least two of the torches weren’t pow… (more)

New World 22: Secret of the Orphanage

Warsaw, Mar 2017

Rated between 3.5 and 4 out of 5
Horror themed rooms appear to be popular in Warsaw. We played four in a weekend, and each had a very different style to it. With Orphanage, the style was exuberantly disturbing, combining decrepit institution horror with freaky images and a whole lot… (more)

Escapers: Abandoned Hotel

Warsaw, Mar 2017

Rated between 3 and 3.5 out of 5
I’ve categorised this room as a horror themed game, but ‘creepy and melancholic’ would be more accurate. There are no plastic body parts or blood spatters on walls, but the crooked pictures and dowdy wallpaper successfully evoke a quietly unsettling … (more)

Breakout Cardiff: Disturbed

Cardiff, Dec 2016

Rated between 3.5 and 4 out of 5
While Disturbed is a traditional, padlock-heavy escape room, it’s a good example of how that doesn’t have to be a bad thing. It uses a horror theme but is definitely a puzzle room not a scare experience.
It’s not a huge space, though didn’t feel cra… (more)

Exit Room: Dracula

Tallinn, Jun 2016

Rated between 1.5 and 3 out of 5
Dracula was both unusually search-heavy and also relied on semi-darkness, which isn’t a fantastic combination. To make it worse, one of the clues was hidden in a location that we assumed was intended to be off-limits.
It’s easy to blame a room when … (more)