Escape Hunt Leeds: Worlds Collide

Not so much padlock and code as more puzzle driven, but the sets (and license) make up for it. If you like Doctor Who, you will like this. 

Not worth the money unless you just want to mess about in a room and are not bothered about the overall experience.

I'd wanted to play this room for a long time because I'm a Doctor Who fan, and also the higher price and minimum three players made it seem like it was going to be something special. I think when it first opened it was something like £33pp for a minimum 3 people, so at £100 a game that was more than we'd usually pay and we expected something premium. 

Since then it's come down to £27 each for 2 players, so we decided to give it a go. 

The first part of the game involves a bit of a celebrity voice cameo, which is a good start to the game and lets you know that this is an officially licenced room, and not just a homage. Unfortunatley that's about as exciting as the official stuff got. The first area of the game is quite nicely put together, and evokes the right mood for what it is. It does look pretty premium, though not especially exciting in comparison to other similar rooms. It took us a little while to get going after missing some fairly obvious clues, but we got through it eventually. 

The second area is a bit... boring? It's kind of hi-tech, but also pretty plain, with some random puzzles laid out. Some of these we found quite easy (we were told that we'd done of the harder ones quicker than most) but then others were a bit frustrating as we kept trying to solve things we hadn't quite got enough parts for yet, or just couldn't quite work out. That's perhaps us being rubbish though! haha

The Doctor Who decor is ok, but nothing that really blows you away. A Couple of obvious props as part of puzzles don't really make it feel like this was done with love. Take those away and this could have just been a generic scientist room. 

If anything, it just lacks a big finale. Either filmed, some special effects, or with a live actor invading the space, you'd expect something a bit more exciting for a premium priced room, but it just finishes the same as any other. Even 'Their Finest Hour' at the same location has a good final moment, and that's much more low key. 

I should have been put off Doctor Who rooms for life by this, but thankfully we did the Dalek room in Birmingham and really enjoyed that. It's small, but fun. 

We were really excited to play this room being big Doctor Who fans and were prepared to pay the premium price for what we were led to believe would be an amazing experience, unfortunately it wasn’t.

So much of the tech was broken or missing, the puzzles were illogical and we left feeling let down.  A real disappointment for a pricey game and the worst we’ve done in 100+ games.

Maybe 3.5 stars if you're a Whovian, otherwise a rather average room.