Tag Archives: heist

Escapologic: Heistakes

Nottingham, Oct 2017

A bank heist is one of the classic escape room themes, and Heistakes is Escapologic’s take on the genre. The venue aims for immersion and realism, and they start that off with something impressive and highly theme-appropriate, that I haven’t seen use… (more)

Escape Time: Bank Heist

Birmingham, Sep 2017

Escape Time is in Sutton Coldfield on the outskirts of Birmingham, a quick drive or a long bus journey out from the centre of the city. It’s an enthusiast-run venue which currently has two games, with a third under construction. We played both games … (more)

Unlock!: Fifth Avenue

Room-in-a-box, Aug 2017

The initial release of Unlock! came packaged with a 10 min intro game, but also provided a 30 min free print and play game, The Elite. Fifth Avenue is a second free print and play game of the same length as The Elite. There appear to be two more prin… (more)

Elusion Escape Rooms: The Pandora Heist

Southampton, Aug 2017

A small handful of escape games give you a goal other than completing the game as quickly as possible, and Pandora Heist is one of them. This is a heist game where instead of a bank vault you’re sneaking into the collection chambers of another art th… (more)

GetOut: Robbery at the Museum

Riga, Jul 2017

Another Riga heist game, and this time we had to steal a diamond hidden in an art gallery.

The decor was mixed; the first sections felt reasonably authentic, whereas the last two rooms definitely felt artificial.

There was a a good mixture of puz… (more)

Escape Room: “Mona Lisa” Affair

Riga, Jul 2017

It seems the good people of Riga are rather obsessed with theft based games, since this was the fourth heist themed game that we played. In this instance, you’re given a pre-burglary briefing with various bits of equipment and instructions to follow…. (more)

MyEscape: Jewelry Theft

Riga, Jul 2017

The second of four (!) heist games we played in Riga, Jewelry Theft (or Jewelry Thieft, as their website currently calls it) has you breaking into a high-end jewelry shop to swipe the Fabergé egg hidden somewhere inside. Fortunately a friendly cleani… (more)

Find Exit: The Bank Job

Riga, Jul 2017

The Bank Job starts in darkness, and I was pleased to be supplied with not just the usual hand-held torches but also lens-less glasses with mini torches built into the frame, which both make the darkness less annoying and had a nice elite cat burglar… (more)

Lock’d: Museum Warehouse

London, Jun 2017

Museum Warehouse is a variant on a heist theme, where you are art thieves trying to find and take a set of small statuettes. Cynically, the ‘Warehouse’ part of the name is convenient since it allows a simpler type of decor, based around metal shelvin… (more)

Red House Mysteries: The Heist

Exeter, Jun 2017

I got a good impression of Red House Mysteries from the moment I entered the venue, through a corridor lightly but skilfully decorated to evoke an air of old-time mystique. They have two games with quite distinct themes and styles, and the first one … (more)