Escape room games are a trending type of entertainment in the United Kingdom. For an hour, you'll be locked in a room left to find hidden clues, keys or puzzles, and solve them to escape. Whether you’ll step out as a winner depends on your wit, inventiveness and teamwork. Here you can find information about the best escape rooms provided by different companies. Are you up to the challenge?
Escape game: Carnival of Curiosities
Very pleasant host but game is terrible. The room was so dark you couldn’t see. The game is totally based on padlock key codes, which you couldn’t see. We tried using phone flashlight, which you should never have to do, and even then the light reflecting made it so difficult. Within a few minutes we asked if they could raise the lights and were informed that the ‘games masters’ thought it was atmospheric and despite receiving complaints decided not to change it. Waste of money. Don’t do it.
Lynne
Escape game: Capital Caper
Don't Bother!
David
Having done many escape rooms in both London, across the UK and in different countries, we tried the Capital Caper Escape Room and it has to be the WORST escape room we have ever done.
Despite the ominous location (thought we were going to someone's flat), when we first entered the room we had high hopes as it initially looked like a well dressed room and the staff member was very pleasant. However, things then went downhill once we started. Ultimately there are very few puzzles to solve which in essence makes this escape room bad value for money.
Please do not go here if this is your first escape room experience as you will be put off which is a shame as there are many many many wonderful escape rooms out there - this is just not it!
It would appear that things are faulty and broken within the room. Probably from previous people getting frustrated with what is a fundamentally a very basic and flawed escape experience.
We encountered a series of problems which even resulted early on in the game master having to come inside the room. This did not bode well for the rest of the game (looking back now, at that point the experience was already ruined). The radio response was also very slow and we had to repeat our calls several times.
Multiple times, we had solved a clue but things were not triggered correctly - we had to state exactly what we had done on the radio rather than things happen automatically. At that point the next thing would be triggered - this was extremely frustrating, not immersive and tainted the whole experience.
In the laser room, there was a laser that was not working and this puzzle seemed to be visually triggered by the game master. After a while the game master realised that the first laser was not working so stopped penalizing us for it as we had been working on solving it correctly.
Escape Room: Limited puzzles, really not worth wasting money on solving approx. 5 clues. One of the puzzles is also wrong as it doesn't correctly follow the rules of chess. If you don't have a King on your board you have already lost the game! Puzzle can still be solved but this was "not the correct answer", therefore the 'king' is actually a queen. When talking this through with the game master they just said "I don't play chess".
Other things to note: The whole place has low ceilings - bumped our heads multiple times. It is also pretty hot in the room.
Once we escaped there was nothing - we have so many photos of our experiences after joyous escape rooms and this was the first time there was no photo and we just left.
Escape game: Buried Alive
Fantastic time this afternoon playing Buried Alive! I’d booked the wrong day but the staff were great making sure we got to play - Jasper looked after us and gave us just the right prompts when we needed. Hugely impressed with the experience - being down in the dingy vaults adds all the right atmosphere. Glad I wasn’t the one locked in the coffin 😂
Katie, Alex and Rosie
Escape game: Da Vinci
This is a 1 star - I don't get how this is at 5 stars, all the reviews can't possibly be genuine.
Z
The room is poorly kept, almost all the props on the walls / tables are broken in some way. The puzzles are old and finnicky, often need jamming for them to register your correct input. The design is very poor, the puzzles feel disconnected from each other and you have to spend 10 minute after completing your puzzle trying to figure out what you unlocked. The puzzles themselves are nothing to write home about, align a bunch of discs, put dominoes together, pull on books, and are often way too obvious (there's clearly visible light sensors on some of the puzzles for example)
I would not recommend this to anyone except someone that has done literally all other rooms in London and needs a fix.
Escape game: Taken II - The Last Chance
I invited two friendto this escape room with me and it was very fun. Me and one other friend cowered in a corner for the first 10 minutes but it really wasn't as scary as we thought it would be. At a request, our host told us when a jumpscare was coming which gave us confidence and we were able to get out with 15 minutes to spare. Will defo come back and would reccomend this escape room to anyone.
Loic
Escape game: Amnesia Room
Great service from Sebastian in glasgow
Kyle
Escape rooms are taking the United Kingdom by storm! The goal of the game is to find a way out of a locked room within the given time limit. Work as a team to solve logical puzzles, uncover clues, and follow the storyline to unravel the mystery. Each riddle brings you one step closer to the ultimate escape! Escape room games are great for a night out with friends, a date, a birthday celebration or a team-building activity in the United Kingdom.
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