Escape Reality Glasgow: Alcatraz

Merchant Square, Basement Unit 1, G1 1LE

2-6 players

60 minutes

In 1934, Alcatraz transformed into a maximum high-security prison housing the most infamous and dangerous criminals. Situated in the chilly waters of San Francisco Bay, no prisoner has ever successfully escaped. Alcatraz has just reached its maximum capacity for the first time in history – because of you.

You are all masters of escaping and no prison has managed to contain you. As highly skilled individuals you have been plotting your escape plan and now the time has arrived. A diversion has been caused by other inmates and the warden has sprinted off to help, leaving you in your cells unguarded. This is your prime opportunity to make your escape attempt. Can you escape before he returns and catches you?

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🦡cipherdelic virtuoso rated this:

gimiabreakout experienced rated this:

Time taken: 40 Outcome: Successful escape!

quite easy

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🌵Juliette B expert rated this:

Played: 26/01/2019 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!

Overused theme with cheap props and unusable tablet hint system. No GM interaction apart from actually having to come into the room to do something. Easy puzzles bar one incredibly frustrating supposedly obvious action. Do not recommend.

Aaron M rated this:

Played: 25/02/2019 Team size: 4 Time taken: 52 Outcome: Successful escape!

This was my first ever escape room and it was amazing - being separated at the start immediately makes you work as a team. There were some easy parts and some much more difficult parts. We made the rookie mistake of letting a door behind us lock, other than that we didn't need any help from GMs. Would 100% recommend!

reviewed in Cardiff

thecolemans rated this:

Played: 27 Jan 2024 Team size: 2

value for moneyimmersivegreat hosting

We loved this escape room, really enjoyed the various puzzles you had to solve to move on to the next bit. We would definitely recommend. The room layout and decor was very realistic, making it an immersive experience

reviewed in Birmingham

🔐James Bloodworth expert rated this:

Played: 16/10/2021 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!

reviewed in Leicester

Anonymous rated this:

Team size: 3 Outcome: Failed 🙁

poor hostingunoriginal

Really didn't enjoy the clue system (via ipad) We didn't have an actual host/GM watching us so once we got stuck, we were stuck for the remainder of the hour and couldn't move forwards at all

reviewed in Coventry

robasmith rated this:

Team size: 4 Time taken: 40 mins Outcome: Successful escape!

originalimmersivequite easy

reviewed in Leeds

Anonymous rated this:

Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!

hi-techstory-drivenpoor hosting

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A round-up of a couple of trips through Glasgow. Mostly poor experiences with the one highlight being Escape the Past at Pollok House, a room that would stand up reasonably well even if it weren't in a heritage site.

Alcatraz is a padlock-heavy, very linear game with a tendency towards fairly numeric puzzles. A good first impression was somewhat let down by some weaknesses of the game.

First of these was a puzzle where the clue for the answer was ambiguous, giving two possible answers only one of which would work. That's a design weakness, and was entirely avoidable here. It was compounded by the context, which involved a communication element that made the ambiguity harder to detect. (While discussing the ...

reviewed in Cardiff

A hard room for inexperienced teams who aren’t confident on their communication, and annoying for experienced teams who like good rooms

reviewed in Cardiff

Good room, poor hint system

Alcatraz is a well-produced room with good puzzle diversity. The overall experience is ultimately let down by the sub-par hint system, but the room itself is good quality. I’d recommend this room for larger teams that have a few escape room victories under their belt – you’ll need every brain in the room!

reviewed in Cardiff

Time penalties were given for each clue given which is the only downside for Escape Reality, however, we escaped within the 60 minutes we were given, so I'm taking it as a win.

A good looking room, with good puzzles, this was the last of 4 for us, I thoroughly enjoyed it, we could have, and probably should have made it easier for ourselves, but despite that we got through. The iPad with time penalties for clues is probably the only downside for me.

reviewed in Coventry