Tag Archives: modern

Inside Out Escape: CSI London

London, Jul 2017

Inside Out Escape have been open since September 2016, but were booked solid for months due to a GroupOn offer, so it took a while before I found a chance to visit. They currently have two games and we started with CSI London, their more recent secon… (more)

ClueTrace: Mission Critical

London, Jun 2017

ClueTrace’s original game had you sneaking into the mid of a white collar criminal, and Mission Critical continues this idea, but this time with the mind of a Soviet official at the end of the Cold War, trying to find the identity of a double agent…. (more)

Ex(c)iting Game: The Warehouse

Oxford, Mar 2017

Ex(c)iting Games is a small independent company conveniently located right next to the Headington bus stop on the route to London, and Warehouse was the first of their two rooms that we played.

My heart sunk rather in the pre-game briefing when the … (more)

Unlock!: The Elite

Room-in-a-box, Mar 2017

The Elite is a free print-and-play game available as a demo of the Unlock! system. As such, you’re probably reading this either because you want to know whether it’s worth the minimal cost and effort to print off a copy, or because you’ve played The … (more)

City Mazes: Control Room 54

Oxford, Feb 2017

I should note up-front that there was a third of this game that I didn’t directly see, since for a large part of it the team is divided between two rooms, and I was shut in one small office while my two team-mates dealt with the adjacent area.

As yo… (more)

Breakin’ Escape Games: Heist Plan: The Garage

London, Feb 2017

‘Escape the garage’ might not sound like the most thrilling of themes, though this actually has a Fast & Furious style plot of fast cars and bank heists. But once it gets going it’s an engagingly physical and just plain fun escape game that left me w… (more)

PANiQ-ROOM: Darkroom

Budapest, Aug 2014

This was the first large team (more than 5 players) room we did. I remember it as rather chaotic, and some of that must have been because of the larger number of people. But it also seemed more amateurish and less polished than the Claustrophilia and… (more)

Do Stuff Escape Games: Hostage Hideout

London, Dec 2016

Hostage Hideout is hosted in a room in a pub, which is a sensible arrangement for an escape room since it neatly provides a waiting area that’s more spacious and better served than most rooms can manage.

This is a game created and run by enthusiasts… (more)

Breakout Cardiff: Sabotage

Cardiff, Dec 2016

Sabotage is not a particularly showy game – the modern setting translates to a fairly stripped-down theme and mostly straightforward props. But it’s a well designed and satisfying room, and some nice touches give it an edge of understated humour that… (more)

Claustrophobia: Stormy Ocean

Tallinn, Jun 2016

Short of having the room rock from side to side or spraying you with cold salt water, they’d be hard put to improve the decor here.

The room was a succession of good on-theme puzzles, with barely a padlock to be seen. It’s perhaps on the easy side, … (more)