Summary
This beautiful story with an escape room hanging off it is set in a mental hospital and is a particularly special experience.
Review
This was another game I’d saved for a special occasion and special team. Team Pig got together in Bermondsey to seek out the well-renowned AI Escape. We had always intended to play their older game Leo’s Path but procrastinated long enough that it had finished by the time we got round to it. Bummer.
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Summary
The Legend of Zelda themed Escape Room? It’s not like the usual Escape Room we’ve all come to know and love. Be prepared for what happens when an Escape Room and a Pub Quiz have a baby…
Review
It’s easy enough to sell themed events to Zelda and or Nintendo fans. They are more than willing to support the brand no matter what shape the product takes. Special Edition item? They’ll buy it. Limited run concert? It’ll sell out. Is this another way to make easy money from the fans? Well Yes and No.
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Summary
A great example of how a low-tech escape room need not be written off as “Gen 1”. The Ops Room is a great first escape experience and tied its puzzles together wonderfully.
Review
Living in south-east London, it’s a bit of a surprise that I hadn’t been out here much earlier.
I’ve probably reached that stage that I need to stop booking rooms out of my London Escapists email, because our host welcomed us having read the site and knowing “the reviewers are in” – maybe I’d prefer it to be a surprise. She was in a period uniform and very welcoming and friendly.
Continue reading “Operation Escape – The Ops Room”
Summary
If escape room design had a school, homework questions would probably be things like “how can you make an adequate sequel to Lance of Longinus”, “what can you do to make the entire length of an escape game as close to a tense finish as the last 5/10 minutes of an hour-long game”, and “is Babbage really a garrulous chrome sphere or is he just chatty”. The answer to each of the above is found in the Celestial Chain. Frenetic, flawless, and fun in a way that pushed the boundaries of live action games.
Review
Team Pig made its way back to London Fields for our second encounter with Luna and Aubrey on a sunny May evening with high hopes. Last year we just about scraped through rescuing the Lance of Longinus with a few minutes before the portal closed. Tonight, reactivating the Celestial Chain was the mission to contain a vengeful goddess.
Continue reading “Time Run – The Celestial Chain”
Summary
Well-renowned as London’s top escape venue, Time Run has it all. Theming, technology, puzzles, settings, media, interactivity, staff attention, and everything else are out of this world. This room is simply amazing. Go and play it already.
Review
Time Run was on my radar from shortly after I discovered escape rooms in 2014. It was a clear favourite of the reviews I’d read. I was saving it for a special occasion, and that actually started to drag on a bit.
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