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 Armageddon is based on a review from January 2017. What a difference an hour/year makes. After spending the last game with the ghost of escape rooms past, Gamescape’s newest room felt more at home in the modern (end of the) world: Scientists have discovered a massive asteroid…
This review of Prison Cell is based on a review from January 2017. The most exciting part of this game came after we’d escaped. We asked the owner of Gamescape if they had any plans for new rooms and they said Prison Cell would be swapped out later this year. I think…
Back in November, Animals team member Paul turned 30. To mark the occasion we (the rest of the team) wanted to do something escapey for him. But as his celebrations were a meal and drinks in town we were a little limited in what we could do. We produced a little…
This review of Remy’s Room is based on a visit from February 2016. The last of the five sites in Liverpool for us to visit was Clue Finders. We hadn’t been avoiding it. In fact all the reviews, including one from our own James who had visited with his wife…
This review of Golden Cage is based on a visit from January 2016. Game-Scape? Gam-Escape? Gam-E-Scape? I thought the point of a portmanteau was to blend two words together to make a new one. It doesn’t really count if you have to turn it back into two words to say it. They aren’t…
Always with my finger on the escaping pulse, here’s a review from back in July 2015. As I’ve probably mentioned before, coordinating The Animals to be in the same place at the same time is more challenging than some of the rooms we face. But as R2 had to pass…
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)…
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…
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…
