by Compendium Escape Rooms (website)
1a Crompton St, BL9 0AD
2-6 players
60 minutes
Overall rating
based on ratings from 42 users
combined with 6 pro reviews
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Player reviews
The Laboratory and Bedlam are some of my highest-rated games, so I came back to Compendium with friends to tackle this one and UI-55.
Story
At the brink of running out of petrol on a road trip, search a dilapidated house for some fuel- there may be developments during your exploration!
Puzzles
Mainly number-based, with a fair bit of searching involved…I didn’t bring my A game to this one. My team did most of the work! So many red herrings often had me on the wrong tracks of the Wrong Turn. They managed just fine, though.
Mise en scene
Top-class: the sights and smells screamed ominous goings-on. This is an escape room built proper.
Final Comments
We escaped with just over 10 minutes to spare, and only needed one tiny nudge in the right direction towards the end.
This was one of our first games played several years ago. Still a fave!
A lot of red herrings/random items, but overall a good room.
We loved the searching side of this game. Lots of content to get through. Great friendly hosts as always 👍🏻
Reviews by escape room review sites
In a great example of how not to get your escape room sponsored by the US tourist board, Compendium’s horror room starts with the premise that you impulsively take a side trip into Alabama and shortly thereafter find yourself searching the house of a deranged serial killer. Your task is not just to get out, but to find a can of gasoline for your car plus also the mobile phones of the killer’s previous victims.
Of Compendium’s four rooms, I thought the decor in Wrong Turn was perhaps the most im...
The third room we did at Compendium was another ‘scary’ room – this time we entered the home of a serial killer. Once again we confirmed there were no live actors or jump scares, but unfortunately, there were plenty of mannequins (which is my specific phobia). The team were great though, and removed what they could, giving my mum a warning of where others were so she could deal with them for me. That aside, this room was fantastically creepy in a different way to Bedlam. Rather than screams, the soundtrack was instead an old fashion song and commercial, and the room and set dressing were just off enough to be unsettling.
