Extremescape: Viking

Fantastic hi-tech room with some excellent puzzles to keep everyone occupied.

Wow wow WOW! We had big expectations for this room after reading the glowing reviews on here and we were still absolutely blown away. The craftspersonship that has gone into this room is just incredible! An extremely immersive game with lots of magical surprises and incredible moments along the way. All of the puzzles were perfectly on theme and extremely fun to solve. The final 10 mins of this game was one of my favourite escape room experiences of all time. I could not recommend more, this room is an absolute must-play! We travelled 4 hours to get to Disley just for this (and the Lost Tomb) and it was well worth it! Simply stunning.

Wow! We still talk about this room months later.

 Fantastic theming, incredible games host and what a finale! 

This game is absolutely well worth playing, and it’ll be clear once you’ve played it why it receives such glowing reviews.

This went straight into my top 3 rooms, it’s so clever, beautiful and flows so well. We had the best time, such a clever concept and use of space building up to the epic finale. A must do room for any enthusiast.

Great room with some fab surprises and something a little bit different

A perfect example of how to effectively make a single room game. Theme is amazing and puzzles are clever and well-integrated into the fantastic set. Really enjoyed the finale to the game and the moments of humour sprinkled throughout. Best game at Extremescape and all round a fantastic room

It's a fairly small space but this game packs a real punch in terms of what it offers. It's a well-crafted, beautiful set up with some hilarious little touches and a truly fabulous wow moment. If you like something that never strays from the theme, that's bespoke and where there's a real touch of theatre, this one is for you.

I really wanted to love this room, but sadly if fell flat for me.
- The set looks great and makes effective use of the building to enhance this.
- The story didn't quite make sense, but this didn't detract from the game.
- Our GM was a bit clue-happy at the beginning of the game, and considering we completed it in just over the 'expert' time, I felt we could have been left a bit longer to figure some things out ourselves.
- Unfortunately, my biggest gripe is that there were at least 3-4 points in the game where the tech didn't work properly, and we were told to re-solve a puzzle or left for 10 minutes fiddling with it and doing the correct actions but nothing happening. We were told beforehand that the game was "very high tech/automated" and unlike "those places where the GM just pushes a button" - but at the end of the game when we mentioned several things not working correctly the response was 'it's out of my hands *shrug*. I'm sorry, but you should have manual overrides built into the game for these situations, especially if it is happening on multiple puzzles.

Fantastic room and decor! Loved the puzzles although some were a little tricky. 

Superb. Some absolutely masterful uses of tech. Loads of laugh out loud moments. Just terrific.

Absolutely fantastic use of a small space - brilliant game, and so many original features. This is a brilliant game, truly immersive. 

My second favourite of the 3 rooms here.

Some really nice wow moments and beautifully themed. 

This room is set in a smaller space than the other 2 and I definitely wasn't expecting it to end when it did. It left me wanting more. 

I don't want to spoil anything so I'll keep this review brief. This room is simply stunning. It's a phenomenal experience with brilliant puzzles and beautiful scenery. It's by far my favourite escape room i've experienced. It balances theatrics with some creative puzzles. This should be the priority for any escape room enthusiast. It's perfect. Absolutely flawless.

Wow, wow, wow!! Having played Lost Tomb first, we headed straight into Viking, wondering what could possibly better it?! Well, we were not disappointed! Whilst Lost Tomb scored incredibly highly for our team in traditional escape room terms (and indeed, a couple of others in my group preferred it for this reason), Viking was like a wonderful piece of immersive, head-scratching theatre. Both opening and ending were remarkable, original and incredibly exciting, and even though this is a game in only one room there was more than enough to keep everyone occupied. We had an interesting moment where a team member put a piece of a puzzle in a place it shouldn’t have been put (sorry Graham and Jess!) but it was solved quickly by our wonderful hosts (even though no-one had ever done that before!!), who were attentive, kind, super-friendly and generous throughout our whole experience at this venue (thank you for the water!). One or two real think-outside-of-the-box puzzles kept us busy, and help came at just the right time. We also loved the complete immersion of the theming - no modern padlocks here, and even the hint system and timer was “camouflaged”. Some gorgeous wood and metal work and really sturdy and tactile props, fixtures and fittings made this game just sheer joy from beginning to end. And did I mention that ending?! Thanks so much Extremescape for a fantastic time, we will be back!! ❤️❤️❤️

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Our first room at Extremescape has gone straight to the top as our favourite. Fully immersive, the hosts were brilliant, and the decor of the room - wow! 

The way that you have to solve puzzles in this room is different to the vast majority of other rooms, and it makes a great experience. When there’s only one padlock in sight, you know it’s going to be fun! Also with it being a 75 minute room, you don’t feel the pressure of worrying about getting out.

We’ve since been back to Extremescape to complete Lost Tomb and Pirate Ship. Viking is still the best, but I would recommend taking the day to do all three as they’re all brilliant. Best company we’ve been to.

Just played a last minute game and wow. Amazing room, as others have said, theming is incredible. Finale is also another big wow moment. Thank you guys!

Absolutely incredible.

These guys have taken a rather small space and created something I've never seen before.

I'm not usually a fan of single rooms, however they have managed a create a room that makes it feel like you've played through multiple different spaces. Some great tech and awesome wizardry left us with our jaws on the flaw.

This isn't just an escape room, its an ESCAPE EXPERIENCE 

Great Job (And the owners and GM were second to none, really makes all the difference)

This gave us a huge "wow" moment, it was incredible.

The puzzles are clever, but felt a little too convoluted, where assistance was required after a fair amount of arm-folding and "so what do we do next".

A very good game with some great tech.

Absolutely brilliant - mechanics in the room are great and really add to the experience. Be ready for several wow moments! Puzzles are good and love the theming. Progression in the room sometimes not obvious but all part of the challenge. Hint giving could sometimes be less obvious. Don’t miss this room!

This room is simply amazing - a wonderfully unique theme paired with some super cool effects and the ending is just incredible (I never saw it coming!)

This was our favourite room at the venue by quite some way. The set for this room was beautiful the effects were great and it had one of the best endings to a room that we have ever played.  We thought that the theming for this room was some of the best we have ever seen. With only 1 or 2 themed padlocks this was a perfect style of room for us and we only needed 1 or 2 hints the game just seemed to click for us. If this is the direction there rooms are going I look forward to their rooms in the future and will certainly be back.

Great room 

Also recommend the Ram's Head pub in the village 

1st time at Extremescape and won't be the last. The viking room is brilliantly themed with some very clever puzzles. I was impressed as soon as we walked in the room.  Roll on October when I've the pirate room booked 

A small but beautifully designed room with an unusual theme. The final task was especially good fun, requiring teamwork and a range of skills.

My favourite game here - We had a blast and enjoyed every second of it! Highly recommend it.