Tag Archives: laboratory

Safarka: The Research

Lisbon, Nov 2017

Rated 4 out of 5
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)

Exit The Room: Zombie

Salzburg, Aug 2017

Rated 3.5 out of 5
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

Rated 2.5 out of 5
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

Rated between 3 and 3.5 out of 5
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)

Escapologic: E.P.I. Centre

Nottingham, May 2017

Rated between 3.5 and 4 out of 5
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)