Category Archives: UK

Escape From The Room: Chambers of Champions

Epsom, Jan 2023

You might notice that Epsom Escape Rooms at Horton golf course used to have a game called The Challenge Chambers, and wonder if this game is a renamed version of that, or a sequel. Neither is the case, but this room shares a similar game concept with… (more)

Escape From The Room: The Mixed Up Mind of Mr Crabheal

Epsom, Jan 2023

Mr Crabheal has a mixed up mind; specifically, he has multiple personalities. And if there’s one thing that fiction teaches us about multiple personality disorder, it’s that (at least) one of the personalities is going to be a dangerous lunatic, and … (more)

TimeTrap Escape Rooms: Curiouser and Curiouser

Reading, Jan 2023

Curiouser and Curiouser is the sequel to Time Trap’s previous game Imaginarium. There are any number of Alice in Wonderland rooms available, but Imaginarium was unusual in combining Wonderland theming with a section set inside Lewis Carroll’s mind. T… (more)

Escape Reading: Age of Magic

Reading, Jan 2023

The previous two games from Escape Reading are both, in different ways, tense and fast-paced games which need effective co-operation and teamwork. Age of Magic is a different beast altogether, a dreamy fantasy that leads you through a magical cave fu… (more)

Live Escape Salisbury: The Brig

Salisbury, Dec 2022

Live Escape’s original game Spectre remains much loved by enthusiasts, so I’d been looking forward to trying their second full physical game. This one is at a different and more central address, and is distinctive in its play style – you could almost… (more)

Enigma Quests: Mission Wavebreak

London, Apr 2022

The third game from Enigma Quests opened shortly before the pandemic, with the result that I was still thinking of it as a new game and was surprised to realise that it’s already over two years old. The scenario here is that you’re trying to defuse a… (more)

MoviEscape: Merlin’s Magic Academy

Stockport, Apr 2022

MoviESCAPE’s boast is that for extra realism and immersion, they use items taken from real haunted houses and movie sets as part of their room decor; with the magic school game we played, that was presumably less of the former and more of the latter…. (more)

Pier Pressure: Modrophenia

Brighton, Sep 2022

I know close to nothing about the Mods, and certainly don’t have any nostalgic resonance with the sub-culture. Even so, the exuberance and ubiquity of the Sixties patterns and designs were irresistible.

If you’re not familiar with the history, the M… (more)

Pier Pressure: Loot The Lanes

Brighton, Sep 2022

Loot The Lanes should need little introduction. It’s occupied the #1 slot on this site’s rankings of UK games for far longer than any of its rivals, and it was the highest ranked UK game in the TERPECA awards in 2019, 2020 and 2021. As a result it’s … (more)

Pier Pressure: Smuggler’s Secret

Brighton, Sep 2022

The latest game from Pier Pressure is the first to be based at their Paradox Parlour shop, which had a highly tempting array of goodies for sale and which also offers their museum of illusions – which we didn’t have a chance to explore this time but … (more)