Category Archives: Wolverhampton

Clockwork Escapes: Sanctum

Wolverhampton, Jun 2019

The premise for Sanctum sounded quite a lot like a horror theme, and an original idea for one at that: an empty room in Clockwork Escapes’s building has watched its neighbouring rooms hosting teams of escape room players, growing jealous over the yea… (more)

Clockwork Escapes: Starpoint Alpha

Wolverhampton, May 2019

I’d heard intriguing though slightly contradictory things about Starpoint Alpha, and it was very high on my list of games to try on a West Midlands trip. Set on a space station, you naturally have an hour to get the station back under control before … (more)

Clockwork Escapes: Where There’s A Will

Wolverhampton, Jun 2019

There aren’t a lot of escape rooms that go to the trouble of portraying an outside. The ones that do always seem to find a way to have fun with it.

Where There’s a Will is set in twilight. The game has some fun props, and some fun spaces both inside… (more)

Chase The Escape: Raid The S.T.A.G.G.

Wolverhampton, Jun 2019

Chase The Escape are an independent company operating out of the same physical location as Clockwork Escapes, filling a space previously occupied by another company, Room Release. This sort of venue sharing seems such a sensible arrangement I’m amaze… (more)

Clockwork Escapes: Alleyway

Wolverhampton, Jun 2019

Alleyway had so many elements that I’d have expected to put me off it. A dirty, dusty environment, a fairly narrow space in which we squeezed past each other in the darkness with not enough torches to go round, with a design that was happy to use got… (more)