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…
This review of Sacrifice is based on a visit from February 2016. We’d learned of this room back in August when playing The Teleporter, but didn’t have chance to go and play it until much later. I was particularly interested and intrigued for two reasons: 1) The room design was…
This review of Air Traffic Control is based on a visit from March 2016. Despite my reservations that their ‘harder room’ was too easy, I’m a sucker for a Groupon so decided to return to play Trapped In‘s easier game, Air Traffic Control: Terrorists have attacked the air traffic control…
Yes, I’m still catching up. This review is from August 2015. I get to use this intro a lot but it’s all true. This review has been a long time coming, as was our visit to Escape Quest. So long in fact that their third room was nearing completion while…
Please note this review is based on a visit from May 2015. I’m playing catch up with my reviews at the minute. After the disappointment of our last visit I was keen to return to Lockin Escape to see whether their third room was closer to the one I loved…
A couple of weeks ago I was thinking to myself “why isn’t there an escape game operator that combines both luxurious set design and non-linear puzzles?” Then I remembered there was, and their name is Clue HQ. Detonation is the first game at their new site in Blackpool, or “near…
Breakout have opened a second venue, this time in the new escape game capital of the North, Liverpool. Like their Manchester location, they’re right in the city centre, in the basement of some council buildings. The facility is well decorated and spacious. At the time of visiting they had three…
After three in a row with @EcclesLadies at The Escape Room, The Animals made a visit to Manchester to Infiltrate Breakout: You are interviewing one of the most dangerous criminals ever to have walked the planet in a maximum security ward. You believe this person may hold the answer to…
Buoyed by back to back successes, and challenged by the empty space on the Hall of Fame (i.e. nobody has escaped yet) the @ecclesladies team were keen to take on The Escape Room Manchester’s The Secret Lab. However, drawing from my experience at The Dungeon of Doom, I insisted that…
