Tag Archives: immersive

Escape Quest: Henry Fortune’s House of Illusion

Macclesfield, Apr 2019

I don’t get many chances to visit the north west, and when I finally got an opportunity to do so a return visit to Escape Quest was top of the agenda. As with their Curious Encounters game, this meant playing with a team of two despite the official m… (more)

mostly harmless…: Escape The Jacket

London, Feb 2019

February in London means the Vault Festival is back, with a smorgasbord of theatre, comedy and more experimental shows; and escape room company Mostly Harmless return with another pop-up escape game. This one moves away from their previous sci-fi des… (more)

The Panic Room: The Happy Institute

Gravesend, Nov 2018

Two things to note up front for this review. Firstly, while it’s not a full on horror experience, The Happy Institute is definitely not suitable for nervous players. And secondly, much like the Gilman Hotel game it replaced, some elements of the game… (more)

Trapp’d: The Forsaken

Wellingborough, Nov 2018

Of the three games at Trapp’d Wellingborough, Forsaken is the one with the least exotic theme – you’re merely infiltrating a Satanic cult, not an underwater city or a dragon’s cave. It is however decorated with equal gusto, and perhaps because it set… (more)

Escapade Games: Zoe

Anaheim, Nov 2018

Zoe has the reputation of being the scariest game in Los Angeles. I haven’t played enough horror games in the city to say whether that’s the case or not, but I can say this: if you’re not fond of jump scares, this is not the game for you. I’ve played… (more)

Abducted Live: Abducted

Hastings, Sep 2018

I was expecting Abducted to be an unusual escape room, and it was; but it was unusual in a rather different way to what I expected. Note that there are two versions, a normal 60 minute experience and an ‘extreme’ 90 minute experience, and naturally w… (more)

Break Escape: Nerve Klinik

Loughborough, Aug 2018

First, a disclaimer: we played a bowdlerised version of Nerve Klinik, due to a teammate’s aversion to jump scares. Since this is a game designed from the ground up to scare its players and keep them nervous of what might happen next, that removed an … (more)

AI Escape: Project Delta

London, Aug 2018

AIEscape’s previous game Kill M.A.D. has been the London escape room I recommend most often and enthusiastically for a little while now, so to say I’ve been eagerly awaiting their new sci-fi game would be an understatement. Project Delta casts you as… (more)

Houdini Escape: Escape From Titanic

Southampton, Jul 2018

‘Immersive’ is a worrying term for a game based on the sinking of the Titanic, but fortunately they don’t take things as far as plunging players into the icy waters of the Atlantic. Instead, this game places the players in an upper class berth on the… (more)

Exciting Escapes: Spies In Space

Southampton, Jul 2018

Assigning ratings to escape rooms is rarely easy, and it’s much harder when a game is ambitious and inventive in a way that gives it the potential to stand out, but then undermines that potential with the way it’s implemented – it can mean wildly dif… (more)