This review of Operation Blacksheep is based on a visit from April 2016. In the beginning there were puzzle rooms. There was no explanation to what you were doing other than “solve puzzles to get a code that will open the exit”. Then there came theming. There was still no…
This review of Time Machine is based on a visit from January 2016. Continuing the theme of names, one that I absolutely love is Trapped In Bury. Not perhaps for the reasons the owner intended (after all ‘Bury’ isn’t really part of the name) but because being ‘trapped in Bury’ is…
Another risk of doing a review a long time after a visit is that things might have changed. That’s why I always start my reviews by saying when I visited (and I’m doing reviews for new escapes straight after visiting to ensure they’re relevant). The Logic Escapes Me is always…
This review of Bad Clown is based on a visit from February 2016. Two of us were warmly welcomed to the reception area of Escape Quest but it did little to quell my unease. What will the live actors do? What are “panic inducing scenarios”? Do I really want to…
Unsurprisingly, this review is also based on a visit from August 2015 Even though this review comes nearly a month since my last one, the events concerned took place straight after. We dusted (or should that be ‘sanded’?) ourselves down from Amazon Escape and braced ourselves for The Curiosity Shoppe Mr. Copplestone’s…
It’s been so long since my last review I’m not even sure I can call myself a reviewer any more. But recent events, that I’ll come on to later (don’t hold your breath, it’s not that exciting), brought memories of this game flooding back and inspired me to pick up…
Not to be outdone by their team-mate, two more members of The Animals were keen to get in on the guest review action. Over to Richard1 and James! Keen to expand their escaping experience before The Animals next meet up at ‘The Vault’, the west coast contingent (apart from Paul)…
Back to our regularly scheduled escape game reviews. Has it really been a month since my last review?! How time flies when you’re having fun. It was back in October when I played my first escape game at Breakout Manchester, starting my addiction. Now I’m back for my fifth and…
I was delighted to get an email from my friend Helen saying “my plans have fallen through for Sunday night. Fancy doing something, maybe escaping?” Not delighted that her plans had fallen through of course, but that someone else had initiated a plan to go escaping rather than my constant…
Reviewing a new room is fun enough, but visiting a new site is better, and a new operator better still. And I got do that twice this last weekend! But first things first. As mentioned by ExitGames, Escaping is exploding in Liverpool at the moment. Not long ago Clue HQ…
