Tag Archives: immersive

The MacGuffin Project: The MacGuffin

Bournemouth, May 2017

The MacGuffin Project is, at time of writing, Bournemouth’s newest escape venue, and it styles itself as a dark Victorian carnival. The carnival theming extends to the venue’s entrance hall, with lush decorations starting from a reception area themed… (more)

Escape This Room: London Bank Heist

London, May 2017

Escape This Room is one of the most recent additions to the London escape game scene – but however only a temporary addition, since it turns out they’re only running until 27th May, putting them in competition for shortest pop-up escape room run ever… (more)

Handmade Mysteries: Poppa Plock’s Wonky Workshop

London, Apr 2017

During our introduction from Wynne, a mechanical toy / human, he asked us “Who’d pay real money to get locked in a room, just to get out of it again? With strangers!”. He has a point. I’d suggest he was a wind-up merchant, but he was, quite literally… (more)

Clockwork Dog: Loop

London, Mar 2017

Hidden behind a non-descriptive shop front facade, the staff greeted us in a very friendly way and in full character. Some reservations I had about the small waiting area were quickly dispelled, since it immediately felt like we were in an immersive … (more)

Thinking Outside The Box: Merlin’s Mystery

Peterborough, Feb 2017

It was with some wide-eyed excitement that I booked a slot for three at Merlin, Thinking Outside The Box’s second room. Excitement mainly because their previous room “Stranded!” is one of my favourite UK rooms and I had been checking their page every… (more)

Thinking Outside The Box: Stranded

Peterborough, Dec 2017

New to the Cambridgeshire scene, Stranded is a desert island themed escape room, located in central Peterborough.

As usual for the local rooms, myself and ‘Mrs Chris’ signed up as a dynamic duo, hoping for a nice relaxing hour of escapism on a rath… (more)

Cross Roads Escape Games: The Fun House

California, Jan 2017

2nd on my mini tour of Los Angeles area Escape Rooms was The Fun House at Cross Roads Escape Rooms. This room is based in the Anaheim area, not that far from Disneyland. Quite apt, given the Fun House pokes a sarcastic stick at the Circus/Magic/Fanta… (more)

Cross Roads Escape Games: The Hex Room

California, Jan 2017

Having just completed the venue’s original and superb Fun House room, and enjoying it immensely, we were offered a bit of a discount to run straight into the Hex room. The Hex room is pitched as a Horror/Thriller experience. There’s some basic theme … (more)

Time Run: Celestial Chain

London, Nov 2016

Celestial Chain has spectacular production values. Let’s be quite clear about that: the effects, stage craft and technology on display here are in a completely different league to most rooms, even more so than Time Run’s original room. Despite that, … (more)

Time Run: Lance of Longinus

London, Jul 2015

Time Run’s debut room raised the bar for escape games everywhere – it’s a cinematic experience way beyond any normal escape room.

Even the entrance door is special, a beautifully fashioned custom creation. You may get to admire it for a while, since… (more)