Chesterfield Escape Rooms: The Cage

By | January 27, 2022

by Chesterfield Escape Rooms (website)

Chesterfield

2-8 players

Languages: EN

60 minutes

closed
There is a reason why Jack Spade (Chelmsford Escape Rooms: The Governor) was sent to jail. Maldon Escape Rooms proudly presents ‘The Cage’.

You will be handcuffed, blindfolded and either locked in one of the cages, or chained to Jack’s blood bath.

It’s time to be processed for your body parts, can you escape? Jack hopes you don’t, he needs you, bits of you.

The new Horror escape room from Know Escape, you know it’s gonna be good.
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🦡cipherdelic virtuoso rated this:Rated between 30 and 30 out of 5
puzzlebitch experienced rated this:Rated between 15 and 15 out of 5
Played: 13 Jul 2022 Team size: 2
immersivepoor hostingbad pacingquite difficult👻scary

We played three games at Chesterfield in one day and while we found the other two incredibly fun, this one completely frustrated us and we left feeling extremely irritated.

The Cage is an immersive game with an interesting premise and you can tell they've tried to do something really unique so I will give them credit for that. I also appreciated they asked for our consent for the live actor to touch us as I would not have enjoyed that.

However in our experience, the clue system completely lets down the room by spoiling the pacing of the room and leaving you stuck for way way way too long. We hadn't done anything in the first 15 minutes of the game (!!!) because we couldn't figure out where to start, and absolutely nothing was done to help us apart from the same extremely vague and confusing clue over and over and over. No expanding on the clue to help further as most games would do. As experienced players and gamemasters ourselves, we know that if you haven't done a single thing in 15 minutes (especially in a room with such a low escape rate), you're not going to escape and so the ENTIRE experience was already ruined and we went through the rest of the room feeling completely deflated as we knew we were going to fail. We were also in handcuffs this whole 15 mins while we were desperately trying to do ANYTHING to get started so we could actually complete the room which ended up being rather painful. As the game went on, we found ourselves getting increasingly frustrated by the live actor who started to become a massive hinderance while we were already behind on time, blocking pathways we needed to get through and just generally getting in our way and purposely slowing us down further. 

Aside from this, the GM explicitly told us before the game (unprompted) that they would not be yelling at us for this game (after playing The Governor in which you are yelled at right in your face) which turned out not to be true as we were screamed at immediately as we were being taken into the room. As someone who has sensory issues, I found this to be pretty problematic and I'm still not sure why they told us that.

Overall, this was one of the worst escape room experiences I've ever had and I would not recommend this room at all.

🔐James Bloodworth expert rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Played: 02/05/2022 Team size: 2 Outcome: Failed 🙁
great hostingintense😨creepy
The sequel to “The Governor” but it doesn’t really carry the story forward.  Advisory, you do start handcuffed but this is one of the more interesting situations that I’ve found myself in.  You also do have a live actor in there with you as well.  We failed to escape as we degenerated into hysterics (we played this right at the end of a long weekend of escaping) and there some tough puzzles here and it was mostly search fails that cost us the win (although we were at the second to last puzzle when the timer expired).  We had a good time here and I feel it’s one of the better games at the venue.  Our GM was Robyn who (as well as hosting us on other games) was excellent throughout.

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