Tag Archives: time travel

Unlock!: Lost in the Time Warp!

Room-in-a-box, Jan 2020

Last in the Timeless Adventures box, Time Warp is marked as the top difficulty level – although in my experience the difference in ‘official’ difficulty between Unlock! games is relatively small, and outweighed by how well or otherwise you click with… (more)

Adrenaline Escape: Lab 3436

Wigan, Jun 2019

Recently opened in Wigan, Adrenaline Escape had been operating six weeks when I visited and was still so new that there was a distinct smell of fresh paint in the briefing areas. Located in the Marketgate shopping centre, they had two games with at l… (more)

Breakout Liverpool: Warped

Liverpool, Sep 2018

We played five games at Breakout’s Liverpool branch, and I’ve played a couple of theirs in Cardiff as well, and of those Warped is definitely the one I found most interesting and the one I’d recommend most warmly. It’s a time travel story, played for… (more)

Trapped In Bury: Time Machine

Bury, Sep 2018

Having time to play only three of the six games on offer at Trapped In Bury, Time Machine was the one I picked more or less at random to complete our schedule, based mainly on it sounding like a theme with potential to be interesting. In fact, it tur… (more)

Time Run: Celestial Chain

London, Nov 2016

Celestial Chain has spectacular production values. Let’s be quite clear about that: the effects, stage craft and technology on display here are in a completely different league to most rooms, even more so than Time Run’s original room. Despite that, … (more)

Time Run: Lance of Longinus

London, Jul 2015

Time Run’s debut room raised the bar for escape games everywhere – it’s a cinematic experience way beyond any normal escape room.

Even the entrance door is special, a beautifully fashioned custom creation. You may get to admire it for a while, since… (more)

Puzzle Rooms: Time Machine

Prague, Jul 2015

We made a point of playing this room because the concept sounded fun – the team split in different time zones, co-operating to find a way to re-unite and escape. (The operators described it that way to us before we booked, so I’m not counting that as… (more)