by Escape Hunt Manchester (website)
Corn Exchange, Exchange Square, M4 3TR
2-6 players
Languages: EN
60 minutes
Step into the Wild West, where the tiny frontier town of East Victoria is celebrating the discovery of gold.
Overall rating
based on ratings from 51 users
combined with 8 pro reviews
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Non-linear escape room that was quite easily solved as a 2, so I can imagine it can be breezed through as an 4. Very pretty and immersive set
This was so fun! We took the Mother/Mother-in-law to do this one and she had such a good time! Great hosting too 🙂 Would recommend!
I Need to go Looting for Gold…
…because this escape room left me with no money! If you bring a team smaller than 4 during peak time, you pay the price. Concessions aren’t valid during this time, either.
Story
Grab the town’s newly-discovered gold, fix up an old train and escape on it before bandits arrive to steal the gold and kill you.
Puzzles
Related to the theme, but clumsy mechanics were littered throughout. We failed to do one particular task properly the first time and was told to essentially cheat it in order to continue.
Mise-en-scene
It looked run-down even for a town in the Wild West. The wooden interior did give saloon vibes, and a train segment added a little change of scenery.
Final Comments
My friend and I only got out with 10 seconds left, so at least we got as much value for money as practically possible! This one is a soft pass.
This was one of my favourite rooms 100 rooms or so ago as it was the first room we'd ever done where the objective wasn't just to escape. Although it looks from current reviews that it might be run down. I remember we were super impressed with Escape Hunt Manchester as they decorated everywhere for our big birthday escape weekend. Tbf it's still the nicest thing any venue has ever done for our group.
This room was severely let down by one puzzle (without spoilers)
- We completed it logically and were told that we had to complete it a different way to count (fair enough we did kind of skip the puzzle)
- We then completed it the intended method only to be told we weren't "enthusiastic" enough in completing the puzzle so had to do it again
This
was one of the last puzzles so severely soured our experience. The rest
of the puzzles were fine, especially for the 3 first timers with us
We had a few mishaps with the room with a puzzle not reset and elements that once complete weren't activating. The theme and set are good but didn't transition that well between rooms. Not a room I would recommend
Reviews by escape room review sites
Picking a game for the afternoon slot at Escape Hunt's Oxford branch was a choice between pirates and cowboys, and we chose the latter. Wild West casts you as lucky but imperilled miners: having discovered a rich seam of gold in a remote and dusty frontier town (incongruously but conveniently already formed into bars), you now need to make a quick exit by train before the local gangsters arrive to take it all from you.
That premise is used for an unusual scoring system. You need to find as many...
Escape Hunt, Oxford impressed us with one of our favourite games to date. Since playing ‘Escape the Wild West’ we’ve been and played all the other rooms at Escape Hunt, Oxford
See also
- Escape Hunt Oxford: Escape The Wild West (Oxford)
- Escape Hunt Reading: Escape The Wild West (Reading)
- Escape Hunt Edinburgh: Escape The Wild West (Edinburgh) (closed)
- Escape Hunt Liverpool: Escape The Wild West (Liverpool)
- Escape Hunt Watford: Escape The Wild West (Watford)
- Escape Hunt Kingston: Escape The Wild West (Kingston upon Thames)
- Escape Hunt Lakeside: Escape The Wild West (West Thurrock)
- Escape Hunt Birmingham: Escape The Wild West (Birmingham)
- Escape Hunt Norwich: Escape The Wild West (Norwich)
- Escape Hunt Bournemouth: Escape The Wild West (Bournemouth)
- Escape Hunt London Oxford Street: Escape The Wild West (Central London)
- Escape Hunt Milton Keynes: Escape the Wild West (Milton Keynes)