Escape Sheffield: Taken

By | May 30, 2021

by Escape Sheffield (website)

Sheffield

2-4 players

Languages: EN

60 minutes

While on the search for your friend who you believe has been kidnapped by a notorious serial killer, you got caught up in the middle by being kidnapped yourself!! The killer has locked you in his workspace where one of his previous victims left some clues on how to escape the killers clutches.. he however was unsuccessful with his escape, how will you do?! You have 60 minutes to escape before the killer returns to finish the job!
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based on ratings from 43 users
combined with 6 pro reviews

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Anonymous rated this:Rated between 20 and 20 out of 5
Team size: 2 Time taken: 61 Outcome: Successful escape!
great hostingillogicalplainvery difficult
First of all, need to say that escape sheffield other 3 rooms are far superior to this one, and every time we have been the hosts have been absolutely amazing and this time was no exception to that.The theme is taken, a serial killer/kidnapping escape room…. Set in a building managers office???? The room looks like an office and is very plain and uninspired, so if you enjoy heavily themed experiences then this isn’t the room for you.Next the reason why this room is so difficult is that NOTHING is signposted, we found an initial hint that led to a dead end and this was the experience throughout, just frustration after frustration around every turn.  Some necessary items were so hidden that even after being told to look for them it still took a lot of searching to find them. This frustration is compounded by no sense of direction or continuity throughout the room.Moving onto one of the biggest problems, one massive time wasting β€œpuzzle” that requires no thinking/puzzling whatsoever. Our other major complaint was that some puzzles have no way of telling the direction for the order, (I.e. left to right or right to left?), especially when dealing with long directional padlocks this was extremely unnecessary. I checked with our host afterwards and they confirmed there was no way to tell the correct direction of the sequence, you just had to try both.Overall it was disappointing given how much we enjoyed the other rooms here, if they’re contemplating replacing a room in future then it 100% should be this one.
ShaneKarlSmith experienced rated this:Rated between 20 and 20 out of 5
abooth expert rated this:Rated between 30 and 30 out of 5
Played: 21 Jan 2022 Team size: 1 Time taken: 58 Outcome: Successful escape!

Quite sparse on design but a decent theme, some fun puzzles. Got a problem with some really unnecessary red herrings and an absoute time killer of a puzzle, but it worked my brain and I had fun. Ran it alone.

Jordan Brown experienced rated this:Rated between 25 and 25 out of 5
Played: 23/08/2022 Team size: 4 Time taken: 51:21 Outcome: Successful escape!
countermeasures8690 rated this:Rated between 25 and 25 out of 5
Played: 3 Oct 2022 Team size: 2 Time taken: <10m Outcome: Successful escape!
great hostingillogicalbroken techvery difficult

Not the best escape room we have done but we still had fun and the host was great. This is not the best escape room for newbies, a lot of the solutions were poorly communicated and not communicated well, and some of the tech just didn't work properly.

One puzzle was so faffy which took 10 mins and required no brains to solve, only patience. Puzzles like this really leave bad stains on the experience for me

We had fun but there is better one's in Sheffield.

🀘The Pick of Destiny expert rated this:Rated between 30 and 30 out of 5
Anonymous experienced rated this:Rated between 25 and 25 out of 5
Outcome: Successful escape!
plainunoriginalstiff padlocksquite difficult

I worry that the reason this room is considered "difficult" is because of the lack of signposting. There was multiple padlocks of the same type (letters, directions, numbers) with no indication which was which.

 This meant trying the code on multiple padlocks, several of which required more than expected force to open. Some puzzles had very little indication of the starting point of the answer or order of the numbers or letters.

There was one large puzzle to get a key which was really long and unsatisfying. The room was essentially just an office and wasnt immersive at all. 

I think with some padlock changes, increased signposting and a little more ambience, it could be good. There were a few good puzzles, but none were difficult. The final puzzle was a little tricky, which was fun! 

πŸ”James Bloodworth expert rated this:Rated between 35 and 35 out of 5
Played: 21/09/2020 Team size: 2 Time taken: 46:30 Outcome: Successful escape!
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 30 and 30 out of 5
Played: 2018 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!

Most of their rooms are absolutely perfect for a team of 2, specially Taken! I would not recommend it for more than 3 players.

πŸ”James Bloodworth expert rated this:Rated between 35 and 35 out of 5
Played: 19/06/2021 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
great hosting
I would need all of my particular set of skills as I was taken prisoner by the nicest possible GM.  Needless to say this is a split start where one you starts locked up but you need to work together in order to escape.  Nothing here will amaze you and (like most rooms here) there's one search puzzle I feel is a little harsh but the rest flows well and we had a great time.
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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...

Plenty of puzzles, a fair number of locks and good but very much IKEA-esque decoration. A perfectly reasonable game but with nothing to get very excited about.
One of their first rooms, which shows, could do with a revamp as it’s not up to the same standard as their other games. Click the link to read our review!

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