AfterlifeCryptology - SheffieldEscape roomIRLVery well themed game, we found some of the first puzzles to be quite difficult and then sailed through the rest! Our host Ajay was great too, had us laughing and could tell he was watching us properly giving us hints when we needed! One issue with the Sheffield branch is that both for this room and when we previously played HughDunnit is that you often end up stood outside the front door waiting! However this didn’t take away from the great time we had here!
Chocolate FactoryBreak Escape Nottingham - Market StreetEscape roomIRLReally enjoyable room, lots of fun and is fully themed from the ceiling to the floor throughout! Most puzzles logical however we did need a few nudges in the right direction! Some very cool and different puzzles! We really enjoyed the room and had so much fun! Sadly we encountered a number of tech/stray item problems: one of the puzzles in the final room had already “completed itself” so the pieces were already on the floor below which meant wasting time trying to complete the puzzle for nothing to happen. Magnetic releases in the final room were very temperamental also, having tried to open them the host gave us a hint to try again and we found varying degrees of success. Finally the biggest issue was the appearance of extra pieces during the final puzzle, some maths is involved to calculate the final combination which was way off due to the presence of the extra pieces! Overall we still had fun and will be back to try the other rooms, however it seemed like a lot of issues happened throughout our game!
ChronosEscapologic - NottinghamEscape roomIRLSo first of all the set itself is very similar to curio, I would personally like to see a bit more variety in the games offered, but the set is of a very high quality and it does fit the Victorian style mentioned by the story here! This room was really cool, the mode of transport of the orbs was really fun and the puzzle design was very cool! But ultimately we thought the room lacked signposting, many times we found ourselves unclear where to go next! And with a certain directional puzzle near the end there was no indication what the order of those directions should be and the images around that puzzle served as red herrings. With just a few tweaks this could be an amazing room but as is there were too many leaps in logic. What saved this room for us was our host, the lack of signposting was made up for with hints suggesting loosely where we should be looking next!
ContraptionEscapologic - NottinghamEscape roomIRLA beautifully decorated charming room, with the perfect old worldly soundtrack playing throughout! Escapologic have yet again created an immersive and fun experience! We did find however that the gameplay was very linear, which as a team of two was not much of an issue but in larger groups it would mean people are stood around with nothing to do! Despite this the room flowed well and we had a great time solving some clever puzzles we hadn’t seen before! Our GM Dan was excellent and our game went brilliantly!
CurioEscapologic - NottinghamEscape roomIRLA very well themed room, found the difficulty to be off the charts and the puzzles didn’t really flow. Additionally one puzzle in particular was definitely made with at least 4 players in mind as for 2 players it was a big time waster. We got 2 hints in the full hour despite asking for more and asking for a hint to be repeated we were ignored both times. Our host just felt “off” with us from the start, and felt like they were not paying attention to us in the room! I’d like to finish off by saying that we did two rooms across two days here and our experience in the other room immaterium was much better.
Cypherdyne v1.5Break Escape Nottingham - Upper Parliament Street [prev. Cryptology]Escape roomIRLOur second room here! Despite the theming being somewhat less impressive than other rooms (an office is an office!), the gameplay and accompanying hosting (by Benji!) here was absolutely phenomenal! Several clever bits we haven’t seen before, alongside a very very cool tech room and the final “puzzle/challenge” is totally unique!! Teamwork is essential in this room! We can’t wait to come back and do the other rooms here! So glad we got to do this before it closes!
Hands Tied [prev. Taken]Gamesaints - Sheffield [prev. Escape Sheffield]Escape roomIRLRoom doesn’t match the theme, kidnapping themed room set in a building managers office. Puzzles tedious rather than hard, often no way of knowing correct order, or things hidden in very random locations with no signposting. One massive time waster of a “puzzle” in there too, requires no thought only time and finger pain. Other rooms at this location are much better and would recommend those!
HeistakesEscapologic - NottinghamEscape roomIRLA very fun room, some really unique gadgets and the megavault itself was impressive and complex! Definitely best done as a two, I think for a larger group there wouldn’t be enough to do! The finale was really tense and exciting, partly due to the excellent atmosphere built up by the soundtrack!
Henry Fortune's House of IllusionEscape Quest United KingdomEscape roomIRLEscape quest and it’s wonderful chapel street are always a delight to return to but we have to say this game out of the four we have played here so far really stood out! Henry fortune is quite a character and we felt an added tension and fun factor to this game compared to others, it was really amazing! Puzzles wise this is very similar to the other games here, an initial quest followed by lots and lots of puzzles to accumulate a score! I really can not recommend this one enough!
Ho Ho Hurry Up!Break Escape Nottingham - Upper Parliament Street [prev. Cryptology]Escape roomIRLA really fun Christmas room! The candy canes served as an amazing bonus objective throughout and we loved collecting them with some puzzles specific to them! The interaction with a certain character in this room is also great silly fun!!
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