Tag Archives: Lucardo

Lucardo: Space Evader

Manchester, Mar 2024

Rated 4 out of 5
The other game we’d come to Lucardo to play on this occasion was Space Evader. This spaceship game is not about saving the space craft but rather scavenging all the fuel rods you can from it, in another variable score room with a highly parallel stru… (more)

Lucardo: Derailed

Manchester, Mar 2024

Rated 4 out of 5
Lucardo Manchester’s newest game is of course a train game, but more than that it’s a game of two halves, to the point where it could almost be two separate 30 minute games that share a common theme.
The story is that you’re trying to solve a murder… (more)

Lucardo: The Orphanage

Manchester, Apr 2022

Rated 4 out of 5
Someday I’ll play a game set in an orphanage that’s about toys and laughter and children playing happily, but not this one: Lucardo’s latest is of course a horror game, set in a derelict orphanage with a dark past.
The design gets a lot out of a re… (more)

Lucardo: The Prison

Manchester, Jun 2019

Rated 4.5 out of 5
Prison is one of the timeless escape room themes. It’s been done so many times in many different styles that it’s very difficult to build a prison game that feels original, doubly so because there’s a very limited range of items you can plausibly put… (more)

Lucardo: Espionage

Manchester, Jul 2017

Rated between 2.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Having rattled through the two Lucardo games that we’d booked and finished them well ahead of schedule, the staff kindly managed to squeeze us into a third room despite it being a busy Saturday daytime. Espionage is set in 1938 and has you stealing c… (more)

Lucardo: The Dream

Manchester, Jul 2017

Rated between 3.5 and 4 out of 5
Our second room at Lucardo was set in the subconscious, in a dream that in sixty minutes will turn into a nightmare. Exactly why we were there or why time was limited I’m not sure, but it’s a great theme for a surreal set and unusual ideas, both of w… (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)