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Knockout Escape Rooms: Dirty Money

Reading, Jan 2025

Latest at Knockout is this game set in a launderette; you might correctly guess from the name that this is in fact a mafia-style theme, which mostly trades the usual smoky back room style setting for the suds and clothes of a dodgy laundrette. Your t… (more)

Puzzle Room Bangkok: Lost Symbol

Bangkok, Dec 2024

This was a rare game that I played solo, since I was passing through Bangkok on my own. The company doesn’t provide an online booking system, and don’t officially support teams smaller than two people, so it took some negotiation over WhatsApp to arr… (more)

Miss Terry: Blood Dragon

Hanoi, Nov 2024

Miss Terry currently has three locations within Hanoi, one of which is in the Old Quarter and therefore significantly more convenient to get to for most visitors. We chose the theme with a Hong Kong triad crime theme.

As appears to be standard for g… (more)

iEscape: The Basement

Hoi An, Nov 2024

I’d thought that all the escape rooms in Hoi An had closed during the pandemic, but we found an exception or perhaps a newer addition. My hopes weren’t high though, because this is a single room being run downstairs in a hostel style hotel, as one of… (more)

Lost: Khmer Empire

Hong Kong, Nov 2024

Of all the ‘archaeology’ themed rooms I’ve placed, I’d never before seen one based on ancient Cambodia, so that alone was a reason to book into this game. And while there was plenty of choice of room, there was much less choice of company – Lost seem… (more)

Headlock Escape Rooms: Rise of the Fungi

Online, Dec 2024

The pandemic spurred a wave of innovation in games that could be played from home, and while some approaches were more successful than others, Headlock’s Zoom-based mashup of puzzles, puppets and songs was absolutely one of the finest creations to em… (more)

New UK escape rooms March 2025

A sprinkling of treats in the run up to Easter – it’s the list of new UK escape rooms. Got anything booked for that long weekend yet?

Escape Games Fukuoka: Hangover

Fukuoka, Oct 2024

Hangover was the game I initially tried to book at this venue, despite the three person minimum, but the owner told me in fairly clear terms that it could not reasonably be completely by a team of two within the time limit. We then proceeded to beat … (more)

Escape Games Fukuoka: Wherehouse

Fukuoka, Oct 2024

West Japan does not offer a wide selection of escape experiences available to English-speaking visitors; in the entire island of Kyushu the only one I could find was Escape Games Fukuoka. With such a lack of competition I arrived with low expectation… (more)

Game of Minds: Da Vinci

Busan, Oct 2024

There are a quite a few escape companies in downtown Busan, but finding a game that doesn’t need any Korean language knowledge seemed more tricky; Game of Minds was one of the few options that had clear English support. Of their rooms, we excluded th… (more)