Tag Archives: Margate

The Escapement: The Pit

Margate, Jul 2018

While I guess by normal standards it’s pretty weird to go to a seaside town and spend the whole day indoors, the quality of the five games I played across the two escape companies in Margate was so high that I had no qualms about missing the beach. O… (more)

The Escapement: Egyptian Exodus

Margate, Jul 2018

If you’ve played a fair number of escape rooms, you’ve probably seen the inside of several Egyptian pyramids. While you can be pretty confident they’ll be liberally decorated with hieroglyphics, there’s plenty of variation in style, light levels and … (more)

The Escapement: Pirates of Polaris

Margate, Jul 2018

First of the three games I played at The Escapement, Pirates of Polaris places you in the brig of a pirate galleon, abandoned by the crew and left to go down with the ship, unless you can find a way to escape. The venue has achieved quite a reputatio… (more)

CTRL ALT ESC: Spacescape

Margate, Jul 2018

CTRL ALT ESC’s second game takes you into space, on a mission to a planet called Dirt. Naturally the mission does not go smoothly, and you need to make an emergency escape from your failing spaceship.

Spacescape is an ambitious game with some intere… (more)

CTRL ALT ESC: Frankenscape

Margate, Jul 2018

What’s not to love about a Victorian-style mad scientist’s laboratory? Your job is to finish the work started by a missing genius, before a thunderstorm blows over – something to do with building a Monster…

An unexpected start provided a nice lead… (more)