War on Horizon Alpha

Very Negative (38 ratings)

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Permanently Closed - The galaxy is in peril, trapped under the cyborg fist of the feared Alpha One faction. The imperial regime rules from the space-fortress codenamed Horizon Alpha, a terrifying superweapon with an impenetrable security system. You are a plucky band of rebels - the best in the parsec - chosen to infiltrate the Horizon Alpha. In 60 minutes a massive rebel fleet will arrive through hyperspace and fire on the base, but you must manually deactivate the shields if this daring assault is to work. Grab your laser-swords. Arm your blasters. Complete the mission and escape before the Horizon Alpha is reduced to atoms. Good luck, you're our only hope!

2-6
60 mins
Hard
Not scary

Ratings

All ratings (38)

Very Negative

Gameplay: Very Negative

Atmosphere: Mostly Positive

Customer service: Mixed

Reviews

reillylikereally

201 escape rooms

Not my style of game. Single room with not much discover in the experience left me feeling pretty underwhelmed.

Gameplay

Not my style of game. One room experience with a lot of tech. There was just a lack of discovery in the space

Atmosphere

The game looks impressive even though it’s just one space.

Customer service

Lovely host, super friendly.

Particularly interesting or different

Story

Didn’t related to heavily to game play.

Difficulty

Medium

Game tech

High tech

Ideal number of players

Scary

Not scary

Was anything broken?

Live actors

Physically active

Not at all

Easy to find location

Yes

Parking

Limited

Apr 9, 2025

KieranosaurusRex

29 escape rooms

Not a fan! Have done 20+ rooms, this was among my least favourites. We escaped, but the pure linear nature of the room meant we spent 15 mins easily on one tiny thing. Hints weren't always applicable to our current stage, and more than a few things that seemed interactive were red-herrings. Difficulty rating of 5/5 seems more to do with how it wasn't always obvious what you were meant to be doing, rather than any actual complexity of the puzzles. Didn't seem to be much actual content, it just took ages to figure out what you were meant to be doing! We would never have guessed the last puzzle without a hint! Overall, probably skip this room.

Gameplay

Not a huge amount of actual puzzles, and due to linearity, could've achieved the same time as a team of 2

Atmosphere

Set was nicely designed but run down, but quite a few little pieces tatty or button covers missing etc.

Customer service

Very brief intro, not particularly enthusiastic! I get that that's what happens with chain rooms, but it was obvious that multiple rooms were being run at once as clues sometimes took a while to come through and one was for something we couldn't solve yet.

Physically active

Not at all

Feb 18, 2025

s0s

24 escape rooms

Really great design and fun puzzles

Gameplay

Atmosphere

Customer service

Particularly interesting or different

Yes

Story

Difficulty

Hard

Game tech

High tech

Ideal number of players

We were two but I think an extra pair of eyes would have been useful

Scary

Not scary

Was anything broken?

Yes

One set piece was damaged from a previous group but the GM told us it was nothing important and to ignore it. There was no puzzle to do with the part that was broken

Live actors

Physically active

Not at all

Easy to find location

Yes

Parking

Easy

Jan 3, 2025 | Experienced Jan 3, 2025

Scoobs83

87 escape rooms

The room had been poorly maintained (in fact one of the puzzles had to be forcefully manipulated in order to get it to operate). The puzzles themselves are obtuse and illogical. I don't mind hard rooms and 99% of the time once you have the solution on a hard puzzle it is clear how that answer should have been deduced. You have that annoying "oh of course!" moment which makes you feel a bit stupid but if fine. On the other hand with this game, you find the solution and are still perplexed about how any of it makes sense. Unfortunately at this stage in my escape journey (c. 50 rooms completed) this is the worst one I have played.

Gameplay

Atmosphere

Customer service

Particularly interesting or different

Game tech

Mechanical

Jun 10, 2025 | Experienced Oct 4, 2024

BAMESCAPES

88 escape rooms

Pretty fun game but definitely our least favourite of Breakin’. Was hoping for a hidden room!

Gameplay

Sep 2, 2024

embarrassingdad

155 escape rooms

Some cool set decoration but most of it was extraneous. Although the puzzles weren't anything new, they were fine and well signposted until a final sequence that seemed arbitrarily difficult and left us with a bad taste. Linear and just one room.

Gameplay

Linear. One puzzle toward the end seemed especially arbitrary

Atmosphere

Pretty good high tech atmosphere, although a little worse for wear

Customer service

As with our previous Breakin experience, we felt a little rushed out at the end

Difficulty

Hard

Game tech

High tech

Scary

Not scary

Was anything broken?

Yes

No puzzles broken but some of the set decoration was

Live actors

Physically active

Not at all

Easy to find location

Yes

Oct 1, 2023 | Experienced Oct 1, 2023

BubbleAndSqueak

115 escape rooms

Minimum 3 players, but we only needed 3 players for one puzzle, which could easily have been made so that 2 players could do the room. Not enough to do for 3 people. Honestly, in our party of 3, 2 of us sat back and let the first-time-escaper do all the puzzles

Gameplay

Atmosphere

Customer service

Particularly interesting or different

Story

Difficulty

Easy

Scary

Not scary

Was anything broken?

Live actors

Physically active

Not at all

Jun 6, 2025 | Experienced Oct 3, 2018

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Editorial reviews

“Lost points for puzzles and general wear and tear, but earns points for a fun sci-fi theme.“
The Escape Roomer
“The game draws together well towards the end with a satisfyingly complex puzzle.“
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