by Escape Ipswich (website)
Unit 3 The Old Unicorn, Orwell Place, IP4 1BB
2-6 players
Languages: EN
60 minutes
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A very average game, would suit first time players or if you have exhausted all other games in the area. The production design was pretty poor, the blood was done with what looked to be a red emulsion paint, the props had seen better days. I felt as though we were very much in an escape room plonked in a room rather than in the serial killers lair. We still spent plenty of time in the room and had to ponder with a couple puzzles requiring a few hints (though i feel some were required from lack of sign posting/illogical jumps), it just felt a little lack lustre & old compared to their other games.
This is the 'Taken' game from the 'Escape Sheffield' franchise - this wasn't made clear on the website.
Having played over 50 rooms, and compared to some of the others at this venue, as a whole this room was incredibly underwhelming. The theming wasn’t great, and the puzzles were often a bit illogical. We spent 10 minutes scouring the room for the code to unlock the first padlock - in the end we had to be given a hint, with the solution making us both a bit irritable as it was sloppy in its design. Some of the other puzzles were fine, but halfway through we came across another that didn’t make sense as it involved ambiguous symbol matching.
Perhaps we’re just fussier than we used to be as we’ve done some truly outstanding rooms, both in theming and with the puzzles involved, but we left the room feeling a bit irritated, and it was one of those we complained about the whole way home.
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The second game at Escape Ipswich (and also at various other branches of Escape around the country) has you investigating a serial killer, and inevitably you've found yourselves caught and in danger of becoming his next victims. Naturally this killer enjoys toying with his prisoners in the form of leaving them puzzles that they might be able to solve to escape.
Like the other game we played at the venue, there's not a great deal in the way of decor here. Forget dank basements, this serial kille...
See also
- Escape London (Shadwell): Taken (East London) (closed)
- Escape Peterborough: Taken (Peterborough)
- Escape Stoke: Taken (Stoke-on-Trent)
- Escape Blackpool: Taken (Blackpool) (closed)
- Escapism Chester: Taken (Chester) (closed)
- Escape Hull: Taken (Kingston upon Hull) (closed)
- Escape Sheffield: Taken (Sheffield) (closed)
- Escape Newcastle: Taken (Newcastle upon Tyne) (closed)
- Escape Edinburgh: Taken (Edinburgh) (closed)
- Escape Newcastle: Taken: Play The Game (Newcastle upon Tyne)
- Gamesaints Sheffield: Hands Tied (Sheffield)