Tag Archives: sci-fi

Make Your Escape: Utopia

Derby, Nov 2019

Utopia is the sister game to Dystopia, its complement and its inverse. Where Dystopia’s decor is urban decay, Utopia is all sleekly gleaming computer panels; where Dystopia’s puzzles tend more to the physical, Utopia’s use touch-panels and screens an… (more)

Make Your Escape: Dystopia

Derby, Nov 2019

Arriving at Make Your Escape for our booking, we were welcomed in by a sardonic overall-wearing janitor from a dystopian future. It’s always a nice touch when a game’s host is in character from the outset, and he maintained the persona throughout the… (more)

Escape Room Nederland: The Dome

Bunschoten, Jan 2020

You may have heard of The Dome. In fact, I’m tempted to write two versions of this review: one for those who’ve never heard it mentioned, and another for everyone who knows of it as the game that came top of the 2019 TERPECA awards, the current reign… (more)

Modern Fables: Hypersomnia

London, Oct 2019

When I played Modern Fables’ first game they were based down in south Bermondsey, but they’ve since moved to the east side of Shoreditch. Our confirmation email came with extensive instructions for how to find their entrance, and yet we still ended u… (more)

Hour Escape Rooms: Operation: Dead Planet

Peterborough, Jul 2019

Operation Dead Planet is a game I’ve been trying to play for a while; the 4 player minimum combined with Hour Escape Rooms’ location on the outskirts of Peterborough made it logistically difficult to schedule. The high minimum is due to the split sta… (more)

Escaped: Zygote

Athens, May 2019

When researching games for our weekend in Athens, several people mentioned Escaped in general and Zygote in particular, as an impressive and challenging game. Athens has plenty of long games, and at 100 minutes Zygote is substantial even by local sta… (more)

Escape Hunt: Worlds Collide

Oxford, Feb 2019

While there are any number of escape rooms that carefully skirt intellectual property laws with thinly veiled ‘homages’ to popular franchises, fully licensed games are much rarer, and so it was with much fanfare that Escape Hunt announced their offic… (more)

Escape For Real: Portal

Milton Keynes, Nov 2018

Any company that opens a sci-fi game named Portal is pretty much guaranteed to catch my attention, so when we found ourselves in the vicinity with a couple of spare hours I grabbed the chance to book in. Escape For Real’s room has no connection to th… (more)

Time Race: Vault 17

Bury, Sep 2018

Vault 17 is a game with a reputation. A couple of months after it opened, word spread that it had a zero percent success rate – not a single team had beaten it. Of course, that’s not a good thing in an escape room. It’s easy to make an escape room un… (more)

AIM Escape: Patient Zero 2150

London, Jul 2018

It takes a pretty ballsy company to launch a set of escape games in London promising “the most immersive and high tech escape rooms you have ever experienced”. But marketing departments have a way of getting carried away, and while for most experien… (more)