Tag Archives: Telford

Xscape Now: Book of Magic

Telford, Mar 2024

Rated 4 out of 5
I only realised after I’d booked it, but I’d played this room before – back in 2016, when it was The Book of Secrets at Clue Adventures in London. At the time I found it very impressive, and it was one of my standard recommendations for London rooms,… (more)

Xscape Now: Runaway Train

Telford, Mar 2024

Rated 4 out of 5
XscapeNow’s train game is a Wild West theme, and of course the train you’re on is heading towards a collision that only you can prevent.
This is a room that looks good from the outset and maintains that impression throughout. The train setting gives… (more)

Xscape Now: Step Into Wonderland

Telford, Mar 2024

Rated 4 out of 5
I planned to sit this one out, when booking the schedule for a weekend of escape rooms, because I played it previously when it was Imaginarium at Time Trap in Reading. However, swayed by fond memories of playing it the first time round, I decided on … (more)

Xscape Now: Oz

Telford, Mar 2024

Rated 3.5 out of 5
The Wizard of Oz seems like a setting very well suited for an escape room theme, but for some reason is far less common than, say, Alice In Wonderland. Though perhaps that’s changing, with three Oz games now available around the UK.
From an entertai… (more)

Xscape Now: Sweeney Todd

Telford, Mar 2024

Rated 3.5 out of 5
We binged our way through five of XscapeNow’s rooms, and only skipped the sixth because they close early on Sundays; and Sweeney Todd was the first one we played.
As a type of serial killer game, Sweeney is at most gleefully but inoffensively gory. … (more)

Clockwork Escapes: The Creep

Telford, Mar 2024

Rated 4 out of 5
With my usual disregard for reading about rooms before I book them, I’d assumed Creep was some kind of serial killer theme, purely based on the name. But no – it’s a lot closer to a sci-fi lab room, and although there’s peril it’s not of the human ki… (more)

Xscape Now: Red Planet Panic

Telford, Jun 2019

Rated between 3.5 and 4 out of 5
When picking a game at random at a venue I often default to the sci-fi option, and it was on that basis that I booked into Xscape Now’s Red Planet Panic. This one puts you on a base on Mars after a meteor strike has knocked out most of the systems, w… (more)

Xscape Now: Houdini’s Mystereum

Telford, Jun 2019

Rated between 3.5 and 4 out of 5
Few names are as closely associated with escaping as Houdini’s, and Mystereum is set in a museum dedicated to the performer. A mysterious stranger has invited you in and left you trapped – a thin but adequate excuse for a room of escapology-inspired … (more)