Category Archives: International

Indizio: Mirror Mirror On The Wall

Cologne, Nov 2016

Centrally located, just a stone throw from Cologne’s cathedral is Indizio-Koln. We were lucky enough to have the escape room thrown into our air bnb stay, as it was located in the apartment above.

The place itself has an Indiana Jones temple vibe, i… (more)

Xitroom: Crack the Safe

Amsterdam, Aug 2016

The room starts in the dark with a hunt for the lightswitch – which I feel didn’t really add much to the game itself. However, we had that done after a minute or so, and could get stuck into the puzzles.

The puzzles were varied – and had very few lo… (more)

Questomatica: Arcade Invasion

Amsterdam, Aug 2016

The theme and decor are an absolute treat to anyone who grew up playing 80s arcade games. Like Claustrophobia’s other games, it eschews padlocks and goes for creative, on-theme puzzles. They make fantastic use of lighting and effects to sign-post whe… (more)

Questomatica: WakeUp!

Amsterdam, Aug 2016

I’ve played a few games themed as being in someone’s mind or dreams, but this one is definitely the most successful at creating a dream-like experience. Instead of finding codes to padlocks, you progress with an increasing feel for the dream-logic of… (more)

Escape Room: Abandoned Factory

Tallinn, Jun 2016

The success rate for the Factory was apparently even lower than for the Lab (a.k.a. ‘hardest room in Estonia’ Lab – at time of playing, there had been only three successful teams, ever (!).

It’s very linear and unusually difficult, consisting of a s… (more)

Escape Room: Prison Break

Tallinn, Jun 2016

This is much more of a ‘normal’ room than the two others we did with this company, both in terms of difficulty level and style.

It’s a relatively small escape room, and both our teams finished it quickly, so experienced teams may find it on the easy… (more)

Escape Rooms: Secret Lab

Tallinn, Jun 2016

This room appears to no longer be open, so this review is purely for comparison.

It was billed as the ‘hardest room in Estonia’, and it definitely ranks as one of the hardest rooms I’ve tried. Unfortunately, that was partly because of gratuitous use… (more)

Exit Room: Crazy Doctor

Tallinn, Jun 2016

Like the Dracula room from the same company, this room managed to annoy me; primarily in this case due to one particular puzzle which seemed deliberately designed to waste time, so that even once we’d realised what we were supposed to do we had to st… (more)

Exit Room: KGB

Tallinn, Jun 2016

The enthusiastic staff acting for the lead-in to this one was great, and definitely bumps it up a notch; it was also free of the frustrations I encountered in the other rooms from this company. Definitely my favourite of the three.(more)

Exit Room: Dracula

Tallinn, Jun 2016

Dracula was both unusually search-heavy and also relied on semi-darkness, which isn’t a fantastic combination. To make it worse, one of the clues was hidden in a location that we assumed was intended to be off-limits.

It’s easy to blame a room when … (more)