Tag Archives: occult

LetsXcape: Sacred

Newark, Nov 2019

LetsXcape are certainly fortunate in their location; not only is Kelham Hall a huge and lovely Victorian mansion, but it boasts some interesting history which makes for good inspiration for the company’s escape rooms. Sacred is inspired by the Hall’s… (more)

The Cult Experience

Room-in-a-box, Nov 2019

Many play at home escape games use an online component, usually for hints and/or answer verifications. The Cult Experience goes much further, and the larger part of the game consists of video snippets, each usually a few minutes long. You purchase th… (more)

The Clockwork Door: Witch House

Dublin, Oct 2019

Of all the escape room lobbies I’ve seen Clockwork Door’s was one of the most inviting, thanks to the board game café they run in the same location. We were welcomed in, offered biscuits and hot drinks, and encouraged to dip into the board games whil… (more)

Red House Mysteries: The Strange Disappearance of Arthur Moon

Torquay, May 2019

Arthur Moon is a ‘perfectly normal’ schoolboy whose mysterious disappearance forms the plot of Red House Mysteries’ newest game, and the first at their newly opened Torquay branch. If from the name and website description you’ve gathered that it’s se… (more)

Escape Tales: The Awakening

Room-in-a-box, Jun 2019

I’ve been saying for a while that the convention of a 60 minute time limit is an unnecessary constriction on play-at-home games, and that games would do better to aim for a longer play time and a more substantial experience. Escape Tales appear to ha… (more)

Cryptogram Puzzle Post

Room-in-a-box, Apr 2019

Cryptogram Puzzle Post is a subscription puzzle product, definitely not marketed as a home escape game, but filling much the same niche as subscription-based home escape games. In its own words it is a “monthly illustrated storytelling experiment ins… (more)

Lock’d: The House of Alastair Moon

London, Nov 2018

After a remarkably long time with three open games and another five (!) listed as ‘coming soon’, Bermondsey-based Lock’d have launched their fourth game. The House of Alastair Moon is set in the house of a magician who turned to black magic after the… (more)

Trapp’d: The Forsaken

Wellingborough, Nov 2018

Of the three games at Trapp’d Wellingborough, Forsaken is the one with the least exotic theme – you’re merely infiltrating a Satanic cult, not an underwater city or a dragon’s cave. It is however decorated with equal gusto, and perhaps because it set… (more)

Chelmsford Escape Rooms: The Governor

Chelmsford, Jun 2018

The premise of The Governor is that you’re a group of ghost hunters imprisoned in an abandoned prison by an ex-prisoner – thereby managing to combine no fewer than three of the classic escape room themes in an unexpected fusion of haunted house, pris… (more)

Clue HQ Brentwood: Sacrifice

Brentwood, Jun 2018

Sacrifice, currently the newest game at Clue HQ Brentwood, is a versus game; not in the sense that they run two identical copies of a stand-alone so that two teams can compete head to head, but using the rarer configuration where a single room pits o… (more)