Tag Archives: laboratory

Escape Room The Game: Virus

Room-in-a-box, Mar 2017

See the [[Prison Break]] review for general comments about the Escape Room The Game bundle – this scenario is only available as part of the set.

Virus has a laboratory find-the-antidote plot, another staple theme for escape games. The background sto… (more)

Exit: The Secret Lab

Room-in-a-box, Mar 2017

See the review of Exit’s Abandoned Cabin game for more information on the base game mechanism – Secret Lab follows the same structure very closely. There is again a code w… (more)

The Unlock! series of play-at-home escape games from Space Cowboys is sold in Europe as a single box of three games, but in the US as three separate games. While all share the same game system, each of the three has a different author and illustrator… (more)

Room Escape: Laboratory

Warsaw, Mar 2017

We’ve now done a few lab style rooms, both good and bad, and this fell towards the upper end. Going in we got the expected feel – lots of lab style props to play around with.

There were a nice variety of physical/mechanical puzzles, searching and lo… (more)

Incarcerated: A Dose of Death

Swindon, Feb 2017

This game has a plot involving a dodgy doctor and a poisoning outbreak; locked in the doctor’s office, you need to find evidence and get out.

A doctor’s office is a relatively easy theme to decorate for – some posters and excess hospital equipment g… (more)

Eden Escape: Alien Rescue

Cornwall, Jan 2017

Alien Rescue is the Eden Project’s first live escape room, in collaboration with none other than Time Run’s Ben Mason and Dean Rodgers. The pop-up room has a one-month run until February 19th and tickets give valid day entry to Eden on the day of the… (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)

Lock’d: Perpetuum Mobile

London, Jan 2017

Perpetuum Mobile starts in a reasonably sparse room. The premise is laid out in a little speech: The key to stopping a perpetual motion machine that could destroy the planet lies hidden in the professor’s room. The website advertises it as “the most … (more)

Escape Game Brighton: Laboratory of a Madman

Brighton, Apr 2016

This room felt a little crowded – there were 4 of us (and a mannequin on an operating trolley) squeezed into a smaller room than I’d expected. A part of me hoped we’d be opening a door to a second annex, but sadly that didn’t happen.

The puzzles wer… (more)

Omescape: Biohazard Laboratory

London, Jul 2016

This is billed as the easiest of Omescape’s three London rooms, but it’s definitely no walk-over.

The room has high production values and creative props, and more of a story progression than most. I found the puzzles less satisfying than those in Om… (more)