Tag Archives: laboratory

Safarka: The Research

Lisbon, Nov 2017

Safarka Escape’s The Research is a curious, surprising game that we booked into on last-minute impulse and that turned out to be something of a find. The backstory involves a request from a friend to break into his rival’s flat to recover a set of st… (more)

Escape Room In A Box: The Werewolf Experiment

Room-in-a-box, Sep 2017

Back in early 2016, there was a Kickstarter campaign for a boxed version of an escape room. At the time it was an entirely novel concept and excited backers poured in close to seven times the funding goal. Crowdfunded products have a tendency to slid… (more)

Exit The Room: Zombie

Salzburg, Aug 2017

Exit The Room were kind enough to let us play this game 90 mins earlier than we’d booked in for – we didn’t tell them that we wanted to change the time so that we could go try one of their competitor’s rooms too.

Despite the name, there are no zombi… (more)

Real Quest: Breaking Bad

Riga, Jul 2017

The room’s decoration is not awful, and reminiscent of that episode. If you’ve seen Breaking Bad, you know what I mean. If you haven’t, don’t worry. As episodes go, it does lend itself to an escape room, but unfortunately the room itself reall… (more)

Lucardo: Contamination

Manchester, Jul 2017

The first game we played at Lucardo was, of course, the one they describe as their hardest room. The gamemaster told us in the briefing that it’s hard not because the puzzles are unusually difficult but because of their sheer quantity, and that was e… (more)

Escape Quest: The 13th Element

Macclesfield, Jul 2017

The second game we played at Escape Quest was 13th Element, billed as their hardest game. The plot is a fairly standard one about a mad scientist and a chemical macguffin that must be destroyed before it is used.

My first impression of the room was … (more)

Deckscape: Test Time

Room-in-a-box, Jul 2017

In the increasingly crowded world of play at home escape games, Deckscape is the latest entrant. Test Time is designed to be the first in a series with the second game due out later this year.

There seems to be a progression towards ever simpler com… (more)

Puzzlair: The Lab of Dr. Lev Pasted

Bristol, Jun 2017

Puzzlair is closely related to Hint Hunt, and as such was one of the first escape venues in the UK. They also share the John Monroe game design, and of the many locations across Europe that also offer that game, a good proportion of them also have Le… (more)

Escapologic: E.P.I. Centre

Nottingham, May 2017

Epi-centre (also variously E.P.I. Centre and Epicentre) places you in a wrecked science facility with the loss of power leaving a store of hazardous chemicals on the verge of explosion.

The website description states that this is the most ‘real worl… (more)

Locked In Edinburgh: Secret Lab

Edinburgh, Apr 2017

Secret Lab came with quite a reputation to live up to, having been described as the best game in the UK by probably the three most experienced escapers in the country, including a certain well-known reviewer… (more)