Category Archives: International

Deepthinker: Ongyi’s Dream

Seoul, Sep 2024

Rated 4.5 out of 5
Deepthinker is currently a single game venue, and although the website gives few clues as to the story, the cute cat artwork looked promising. The briefing had me bracing myself for disappointment though, after our (friendly and helpful) host had fin… (more)

Inmers: Break Through The Soil

Singapore, Aug 2024

Rated between 4 and 4.5 out of 5
My previous experiences of escape rooms in Singapore have tended to be a little underwhelming; although the industry developed here relatively early, it seems to have lost its energy around 2016 and seen few advances since, meaning the games I’ve tri… (more)

Quest House: Alice

Rome, Jul 2024

Rated 4.5 out of 5
After two months playing escape rooms in places where the industry is not so developed, walking into the start of this game was a true pleasure – and I suspect it’ll have a similar effect on all but the most jaded. This Alice in Wonderland adaptation… (more)

Yerevan Quest: Disappearance of Neo

Yerevan, Jul 2024

Rated 2 out of 5
I looked at the name of this game and assumed it was a story inspired by the Matrix… but no, as we discovered on arrival, the premise is actually that there’s a missing child named Neo, and you’re investigating his bedroom to try to solve the mystery… (more)

TTE Rooms: The Golden House

Tbilisi, Jun 2024

Rated 3.5 out of 5
Tbilisi used to have more escape companies, but the pandemic took a toll, and at time of writing I believe there are only two available. TTE Rooms is the closer one to the centre, and has just the one room, the name of which I only discovered after w… (more)

Portal Games: Magic Lamp

Baku, Jun 2024

Rated between 1.5 and 2 out of 5
This was the latest in a series of rooms I tried at random in countries not normally known for escape rooms. Baku does have several companies, but Portal Games is comfortably the largest, with around a dozen different locations, and over thirty games… (more)

Quest Zone: Laboratory

Almaty, Jun 2024

Rated 3 out of 5
Most of Almaty’s escape venues appeared to be either horror houses or no longer operating. Quest Zone was the only exception I managed to find, and they even seemed to be happy to run a game in English. For once, the room was more than theoretically … (more)