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The 50 best escape rooms in the UK 2021

Which were the UK’s best escape rooms in 2021? This list is based on many thousands of ratings from players of all levels of experience, as well as all the main UK escape room bloggers and reviewers, blended together by the Escape The Review algorithm; and as of the end of Dec 2021, these are… Read More »

Beyond Breakout: An Elfin Mistake

Online, Dec 2021

Rated 3.5 out of 5
The second of only two Christmas pop-ups I played this year, An Elfin Mistake is available for in-person play, but since I didn’t have the chance to nip over to Wales I played it as a remote avatar game; and on careful consideration, that might actua… (more)

TimeQuest: Elf Magic 2: The Santa Clause

Tonbridge, Nov 2021

Rated 3.5 out of 5
I’ll admit to being a natural Grinch on whom the joys of Christmas spirit are largely wasted, and so I normally only play one or two festive games each year; TimeQuest’s was my only such physical room for the 2021 season, so I was glad to find it was… (more)

Swamp Motel: The Drop

London, Nov 2021

Rated 4 out of 5
Swamp Motel will be familiar to many enthusiasts from their Isklander trilogy of online games released during lockdowns, starting with Plymouth Point; they’ve now moved from the internet to the real world, and The Drop is a physical escape room / imm… (more)

Escape Manor: Cabin 13

Online, Apr 2021

Rated 3.5 out of 5
Creepy cabins mostly fall into ‘psycho’ and ‘supernatural’ sub genres; Escape Manor‘s is the latter, with a nasty case of demonic possession to sort out. In the original in person game it seems there would have been an in person actor; this version a… (more)

Exit: The Cemetery of the Knight

Room-in-a-box, Apr 2021

Rated 3.5 out of 5
The Exit series of puzzle games keeps rolling on; the games follow a well-defined format and style, and at this point are definitely starting to blur one into another. On the other hand, it’s a format and style that works well and reliably delivers a… (more)

SENSAS

London, Sep 2021

Rated 3.5 out of 5
SENSAS is not an escape room. As an experience it’s closer to the style of the live Crystal Maze, in that it involves a series of challenges for you to tackle as a team, collecting tokens for your successes as you go. Unlike the Crystal Maze, in SENS… (more)