Tag Archives: serial killer

Deliverance: The Hideaway

Lincoln, Nov 2019

Although you can play it stand-alone, Hideaway is a direct sequel to Deliverance’s first game Cabin In The Woods, and their website encourages you not to read the game description if you want to avoid spoilers for the previous game. Your role is no l… (more)

Deliverance: Cabin In The Woods

Lincoln, Nov 2019

The woods must be packed with small sinister cabins, each inhabited by its own bloodthirsty maniac; and inevitably we end up wandering into one after another. Increasingly often escape rooms with this theme start you off outside the cabin; that’s the… (more)

Escape London: The Cabin

London, Jul 2019

The premise of The Cabin is that while you were camping in some remote location, someone has raided your tent, stolen some of your possessions, and left you a threatening note challenging you to come to his cabin and get them back. And of course you … (more)

Clockwork Escapes: Alleyway

Wolverhampton, Jun 2019

Alleyway had so many elements that I’d have expected to put me off it. A dirty, dusty environment, a fairly narrow space in which we squeezed past each other in the darkness with not enough torches to go round, with a design that was happy to use got… (more)

Argyx Games: Apocalypse: Sign of the Cross

Room-in-a-box, Jun 2019

Last year I reviewed a taster mini-game produced by Argyx and was impressed enough to sign up as a backer in the crowdfunding campaign for their full game, Apocalypse. That taster stood out for the quality and realism of its components, for making pl… (more)

D S Escape Rooms: Elude

Haverhill, Apr 2019

My escape room addiction has led me to all sorts of curious suburbs, back streets and industrial parks in search of venues. D S Escape Rooms were one of the harder companies to find, buried inside a sprawling business centre with corridors painted in… (more)

Xscream Escapes: The Corpsewood Killer

Staines, Sep 2018

Xscream’s second game has you locked in the house of a serial killer, a straightforward premise that different companies interpret in a huge variety of ways. This one has created the feel of a rural house, and mostly avoids cheesy gore and Halloween … (more)

Bust Out 360: Taken

Slough, Sep 2018

One of several companies that have opened in the last year between London and Reading, Bust Out 360 have launched with a classic serial killer scenario: blindfolded and handcuffed with an ominous voice promising you an unpleasant fate, just as soon a… (more)

Abducted Live: Abducted

Hastings, Sep 2018

I was expecting Abducted to be an unusual escape room, and it was; but it was unusual in a rather different way to what I expected. Note that there are two versions, a normal 60 minute experience and an ‘extreme’ 90 minute experience, and naturally w… (more)

Elusion Escape Rooms: Seven Sins

Southampton, Jul 2018

No matter how much I firmly maintain that I don’t much like horror games, escape rooms like Seven Sins come along and demonstrate that that’s not really true. I could try to claim I liked it despite the horror theme, but that won’t wash: the t… (more)