In January I played one room (and it wasn’t very good). In February I played three rooms (and they were ‘preview screenings’ so I didn’t review them). In March I played 18 rooms in eight days (so here we go!)! London Professor Oxford’s Experiments @ Escapeland (aka Escape Rooms London)…
My expectations couldn’t have been much lower for The Detective Office. But it was the only room available that fit in with our schedule so we gave it a try. And it wasn’t awful. I mean, it was pretty close to awful. The ‘race room’ style design, accompanied with very…
Fair warning: This post has approximately nothing to do with escape games. I’m sat here quite upset today. Upset because I don’t get the whole “woohoo New Year’s Eve!!!!!!1” thing and feel like I’m missing something. Upset because I’m already sick of seeing all the “new year, new me” and…
I went to Bury to play the ‘unbeatable’ Vault 17 at Time Race. While I was there I played some others too. Here are some reviews that are only as long as they need to be: The Invitation – Time Race Let’s start this review of Bury by talking about…
What generation are we up to with escape games now? Fourth? Fifth? Nth? The answer is of course “shut up”. But regardless of meaningless taxonomies, I feel like escape room puzzles, and in particular their answers, should be ‘better’, more elegant. I’m not talking about use of technology here; padlocks…
As most of you will be aware, the Escape Room Industry Conference (ERIC to his friends) took place a couple of months ago in Nottingham. It was an excellently produced and run event that I was lucky enough to be invited to speak at. But why was I invited?…
As you may have noticed I haven’t published many reviews recently. There are a few reasons for this that I’m not going to get into right now. But my lack of reviews doesn’t mean I’ve not been playing games. I’ve been recording all these games in a google sheet and…
As a Lancastrian (let’s not bring Greater Manchester into this) I’m contractually obliged to hate Yorkshire. But in reality I don’t mind it at all (some parts are actually quite nice). If for nothing else, it gave substance for one of my all-time favourite comedy sketches: This last weekend…
I’ve put off writing this post for far too long. Unfortunately that means the ‘enthusiasm’ which I used to fuel the criticism in the earlier sections has long since waned, now that I want to be positive. But they say a picture is worth a thousand words, so hopefully these…
For someone who doesn’t get a lot of time to blog I seem to be spending a lot of time on one subject, eh? Now that I’ve got all that qualifying stuff off my chest I can hopefully be a little more objective. This post will be about the Red…
