The full list of reviews on the blog:
- A Great Escape: The ENIGMA room
- Adventox (London): Mission X
- Adventox (London): No Way Out
- Aftermath the Game (London): On the Brink
- Agent November: Major X Plow-Shun
- Agent November: Murder Mystery
- Agent November: The Rainbow Syndicate
- AIEscape: Kill M.A.D.
- AIEscape: Leo’s Path
- AIM Escape (London): Patient Zero 2150
- AIM Escape (London): Psychopath’s Den
- Atherton Escape Rooms: The Missing Child
- Atherton Escape Rooms: Train Waiting Room
- Bewilder Box
- Bewilder Box (Bright): Judgement D.A.V.E.
- Break Escape (Loughborough): The Sands of Time
- Breakin’ Escape (London): Blackwing’s Cave
- Breakin’ Escape (London): Butcher’s Lair
- Breakin’ Escape (London): Heist Plan – The Garage
- Breakin’ Escape (London): Sherlock’s Despair
- Breakin’ Escape (London): The Flying Dutchman
- Breakin’ Escape (London): War on Horizon Alpha
- Breakout Liverpool: Classified
- Breakout Liverpool: Cursed Carnival
- Breakout Liverpool: Shipwrecked
- Breakout Liverpool: Wanted (Cowboys)
- Breakout Liverpool: Wanted (Indians)
- Breakout Manchester: Reclassified
- Breakout Manchester: Virus
- Breakout Rooms (Watford): Spy Games
- Breakout Rooms (Watford): The Lost City
- Can You Escape York: Operation Lone Eagle
- Can You Escape? (York): Operation H.E.R.O.
- Canterbury Escape Rooms: Jail Escape
- City Mazes (London): Bamboozled
- City Mazes (London): The Lost Cabin
- Cliffhanger Rooms: Bank Vault Heist
- Cliffhanger Rooms: The Pharaoh’s Curse
- Clockwork Dog (London): Loop
- Clockwork Dog: Langstroth’s Last Riddle
- Clockwork Escapes (Wolverhampton): Alleyway
- Clockwork Escapes (Wolverhampton): Starpoint Alpha
- Clockwork Escapes (Wolverhampton): The Nolan Exhibit
- Clue Adventures (London): 2 Tickets 2 Ride
- Clue Adventures: The Book of Secrets
- Clue HQ (Brentwood): Bunker 38
- Clue HQ (Brentwood): Detonation
- Clue HQ Manchester: CSI – the Panic Room
- Clue HQ Warrington: The Betrayal of Cluetankhamun
- Clue HQ Warrington: The Vault
- ClueCapers (Winchester): Mission to Winchintzy
- ClueCapers: Rescue from Winchokey
- ClueFinders: Remy’s Room
- ClueFinders: The Tomb
- clueQuest: Operation Black Sheep (the satellite one)
- clueQuest: Plan52 (the one with the red box)
- clueQuest: Revenge of the Sheep (the one with the SheepMutator)
- ClueTrace (London): Mission Critical
- ClueTrace: Mind Crime
- Co-decode (Swindon): Professor Dunstan and the Search for the Ancient Statuette
- Code to Exit (Altrincham): The Forger
- Code to Exit: Blueprint/Edward Teller’s Room
- Code to Exit: The Dark Ages
- Code to Exit: The Test
- Crack It (Bolton): Haunted Mansion
- Cryptology Nottingham: Cypherdyne
- Cryptology Nottingham: The Crypt
- Cryptx (Cambridge): The Gaol
- Cryptx (Cambridge): The Jewellery Heist
- CTRL ALT ESC (Margate): Frankenscape
- CTRL ALT ESC (Margate): Spacescape
- Cyantist (Bournemouth): Clockwork Orange
- Cyantist (Southampton): Crystal Maze
- Deception Escape Rooms (Matlock, Derbyshire): Trapped
- Do Stuff Escape (London): Pie & Mash Shop
- Do Stuff: Hostage Hideout
- El Cubo de los Secretos/The Cube of Secrets (Malaga, Spain): La Piedra Carmesi/The Crimson Stone
- Elusion Rooms (Southampton): The Pandora Heist
- Enigma Escape: The Breakout
- Enigma Escape: The Killer
- Enigma Quests (London): Million Pound Heist
- Enigma Quests: The School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
- Enigma Rooms (Sheffield): The Bank Job
- Enigma Rooms (Sheffield): Voodoo
- Enigma Rooms Mexico City: Cold War
- Enter the Oubliette: Escape from New Pelagia [CLOSED]
- EscaPark Malaga: The Parallel Dimension
- Escape Asylum (Leicester): Hostage
- Escape Blackpool: Contagion
- Escape Entertainment: Bank Heist
- Escape Entertainment: Prohibition Pandemonium
- Escape from the Room (London): The Cabin in the Woods
- Escape from the Room: The Curse of Old Maid Milly
- Escape Game Brighton: Laboratory of a Madman
- Escape Game Brighton: Murder at the Pier: Revenge
- Escape Game Brighton: Return of the Mad Scientist
- Escape Game Brighton: Secret Agent – The Black Box
- Escape Games London: Escape the Theatre
- Escape Hull: The Darker Side of Hull
- Escape Hunt (Leeds): Our Finest Hour
- Escape Hunt (Leeds): The Fourth Samurai
- Escape Hunt: Kidnapping in the Living Room
- Escape Hunt: Murder in the Artist’s Bedroom
- Escape Hunt: Theft from the Laboratory
- Escape in the Towers (Canterbury): Crime & Punishment Lab
- Escape Kent (Canterbury): Pirates of the Stormy Seas
- Escape Kent: Kidnapped
- Escape Land: Age of Steampunk
- Escape Land: Da Vinci’s Exploration
- Escape London – Shadwell: Escape the Seven Seas
- Escape London – Shadwell: Witchcraft and Wizardry
- Escape London – Shadwell: Taken
- Escape London: Area 51
- Escape London: da Vinci
- Escape London: Escape Casino
- Escape Plan (London): The Battle for Britain
- Escape Plan: The Adventure Begins
- Escape Quest: Amazon Escape
- Escape Quest: Bad Clown
- Escape Quest: Curious Encounters
- Escape Room Centre: Egyptian Room
- Escape Room Centre: Secret Agent
- Escape Room Centre: Secret of the Tomb
- Escape Room Centre: the Bomb
- Escape Room Hull: Prison Break
- Escape Room Hull: The Aviator’s Study
- Escape Room Hull: The Bank Job
- Escape Rooms (Angel, London): Dark Side of the Moon
- Escape Rooms (Angel, London): Project D.I.V.A.
- Escape Rooms: Pharaoh’s Chamber
- Escape Rooms: Room 33
- Escape this Room
- Escape Time (Sutton Coldfield): The Chocolate Factory
- Escapemobile (Touring game): Houdini’s Last Trick
- Escaper MK (Milton Keynes): Alien Abduction
- Escaper MK (Milton Keynes): Cabin in the Woods
- Escapologic (Nottingham): Heistakes
- Escapologic: 13utcher
- Escapologic: Contraption
- Escapologic: Cryptic
- Escapologic: Curio
- Escapologic: E.P.I. Centre
- Escapologic: Howitz
- Exciting Escapes Southampton: A Hidden Past
- Exciting Escapes Southampton: Breaking the Law
- Exciting Escapes Southampton: Change the Record
- Exit Madrid: Cold War – Double Agent
- Exit Madrid: The Laboratory
- Exit Strategy: Nostromo
- Exit Strategy: the Illuminati
- Exit the Game (Málaga, Spain): Operation Kandinsky
- Experimental Escape (Leamington Spa): The Machine
- Extremescape: The Lost Tomb
- Extremescape: The Pirate Ship
- Find The Way Out (Kings Lynn): Abandoned Ship
- Find The Way Out (Kings Lynn): Witch’s Lair
- Fox in a Box Madrid: Zombie Lab
- Game Over (Derby): Jack the Ripper
- gamEscape: Armageddon
- gamEscape: Golden Cage
- Get Lost Escape Rooms (Dover): The Abandoned Cottage
- Get Lost Escape Rooms (Dover): World Fair Hotel
- GR8escape York: Space Cadet
- GR8escape York: Spy School
- Handmade Mysteries: Lady Chastity’s Reserve
- Handmade Mysteries: Poppa Plock
- Hidden Rooms: Chain Reaction
- Hidden Rooms: Invisible Space
- Hidden Rooms: Prison Break
- Hide and Shriek: Alien Escape
- Hint Hunt: John Monroe’s Office
- Hint Hunt: The Zen Room
- History Mystery (Norwich): Archived Alive
- History Mystery (Norwich): Body of Evidence
- Houdini’s Escape Room: Escape from Alcatraz
- Hour Escape Rooms (Peterborough): The Black Diamond
- iLocked Nottingham: The Mummy
- Imperial War Museums/HMS Belfast/Clockwork Dog (London): Damage Control
- Indizio (Köln/Cologne): John’s Secret
- Indizio (Köln/Cologne): Santa’s List
- Inkwell Investigations (London): Murder History
- Kanyu – Secrets of South Lodge. (Wetherby): Follow in my footsteps
- Kanyu – Secrets of South Lodge. (Wetherby): Lightning in a Bottle
- KLB Escape Room: The Inheritance
- La Casa de las Habitaciones (Málaga, Spain): Dungeons and Druids
- Live Escape Essex: Dr Wilson’s Office
- Live Escape Essex: Room 13
- Live Escape Salisbury: SPECTRE
- Lock Down Escape Exit Games: The Lost Soul
- Lock’d: Grandpa’s Last Will
- Lock’d: Museum Warehouse
- Lock’d: Perpetuum Mobile
- Lockdown Escape Rooms (Oldham): A.W.O.L.
- Locked in a Room (London) – Invisibility Gene
- Locked in a Room (London): Timelock
- Locked In Edinburgh: The Secret Lab
- LockIn Real Escape: Jail Break
- LockIn Real Escape: Mission 60
- Lockup Escape Room (Sheffield): Meltdown
- Logiclock Nottingham: Casa Nostra – the Sicilian Adventure
- Logiclock Nottingham: Made in Stein
- Logiclock Nottingham: Pirates in Nottingham
- Lucardo (Manchester): Contamination
- Lucardo (Manchester): Gem Runner
- Lucardo: The Dream
- Lucardo: Virginia House
- Make Your Escape (Derby): Spellbound
- Make Your Escape (Derby): The Signal
- Marvo Mysteries: M.A.R.V.O. Induction
- Mind the Game: Crazy Professor
- Mission Breakout (London): The Lost Passenger
- Mission Breakout: Codebreakers
- Modern Fables (London): The Escapist
- moviESCAPE: SAWtopsy
- moviESCAPE: The Haunted House
- Mystery Cube
- Namco Funscape: Escape Room
- Omescape: Biohazard Laboratory
- Omescape: Joker’s Asylum
- Omescape: Penitentiary
- Operation Escape (London): WWII – The Ops Room
- Other World Escapes (Southampton): Mayan
- Ouija Bournemouth
- Parapark (Málaga, Spain): The 9th Gateway
- ParaPark Malaga: The Fourth Element
- Pier Pressure (Brighton): Modrophenia
- Pier Pressure (Brighton): Pavilion Perplex
- Popup Escape Room: A Licence to Escape
- Popup Escapes (London): The Case of the Dynamo Diamonds
- Pressure Point (Ashford): The Accused
- Pressure Point Escape Rooms (Ashford): Murder on the Dancefloor
- Prison Island Benálmadena (Málaga, Spain)
- Project Breakout (Brighouse, Yorkshire): Project Z
- Project Breakout (Brighouse, Yorkshire): The Dollmaker
- Puzzlescape (Dereham): Sleight of Hand
- Puzzlescape (Dereham): The Diamond Hunt
- Quest Room
- Real Life Games (Ramsgate): Extinction
- Red Bull Mind Gamers
- Rock Escape Rooms (Gibraltar): Casino
- Room Escape Adventures: Trapped in a Room with a Zombie
- Room Escape MK: Decipher the Voynich
- Room Escape MK: The Sphinx Chamber
- Room Escape Southend: Zombie Outbreak
- Room Lockdown (Essex): Possessed Doll
- Room Lockdown (Essex): Prison Break
- Room Lockdown (Essex): The Curse of King Anum
- Room Release (Wolverhampton): The Archaeologists
- Salisbury Escape Rooms: FRAMED
- SantQescape (Sant Cugat, Spain): Préssec en Alquímia (Peach in Alchemy)
- Scramm (Banbury): The Chocolate Factory
- SCRAP: Defender of the Triforce (London)
- Secret Studio: Escape in Time!
- Sherlock Unlock: Chaos
- Sherlock Unlock: Mutiny
- Sherlock Unlock: Outbreak
- St Helens vs The Lizards
- Stuck in the Riddle (Huddersfield): The Dungeon
- The Crystal Maze
- The Escape Room (Preston): Gallery
- The Escape Room (Preston): Taken
- The Escape Room (Preston): The Mummy
- The Escape Room (Preston): Vampire Chronicles
- The Escape Room Newcastle(-under-Lyme): Spy Mission
- The Escapement (Margate): Egyptian Exodus
- The Escapement (Margate): Pirates of Polaris
- The Escapologist (Selby): Back from the Future
- The Escaporium (Halifax): Operation Moonshine
- The Escaporium (Halifax): The Haligonian
- The Great Escape Game Leeds: Abducted
- The Guest House Escape Room (Leeds): The Tarot Room and Professor Willibanks
- The Live Escape (Huddersfield): Underground
- The Live Escape: Prison Breakout
- The Lockey: Case Nr 47
- The MacGuffin Project (Bournemouth): The Fortune Teller
- The MacGuffin Project (Bournemouth): The MacGuffin
- The Panic Room (Gravesend): Defective Detective
- The Panic Room (Gravesend): Dino Land
- The Panic Room (Gravesend): Resurgency
- The Panic Room (Harlow): The Panic Room
- The Panic Room (Harlow): The Witch House
- The Panic Room Gravesend: Million Dollar Date Night (Season 1)
- The Panic Room Gravesend: Old Father Time
- The Panic Room Gravesend: The Dollhouse
- The Panic Room Gravesend: The Don
- The Panic Room Gravesend: The Gilman Hotel
- The Panic Room Harlow: The Tomb
- The Real Escape (Portsmouth): The Guardians of the Elixir, Dr Ryddle’s Memories, The Chamber of the Deep
- The Rombo Code: Capítulo 43
- The Rombo Code: Casanova
- The Vault Festival 2018 (London): The Lifeboat
- Thinking Outside the Box (Peterborough): Merlin’s Mystery
- Thinking Outside the Box (Peterborough): Retro
- Thinking Outside the Box (Peterborough): Stranded
- Tick Tock Unlock Manchester: The Hatch
- Time Race (Bury): The Invitation
- Time Race (Bury): Vault 17
- Time Run: Celestial Chain
- Time Run: The Lance of Longinus
- Time Trap (Reading): Imaginarium – 1863
And some non-escape reviews:
- A Door in a Wall (London): Dead Drop
- A Door in a Wall (London): Dead Man’s Hand
- A Door in a Wall (London): Horses for Corpses
- A Door in a Wall (London): Memento Mori
- A Door in a Wall (London): Murder Most Fowl
- A Door in a Wall: A Veiled Threat
- A Door in a Wall: Appetite for Murder
- A Door in a Wall: Played to Death
- A Door in a Wall: The Life and Death of Paul Marrane
- A Place in Time: Maman le Mot
- An afternoon in Manchester
- Block Stop: By the End of Us
- Block Stop: Counter Call
- City Dash: Code Red
- City Dash: Shadow over Shoreditch
- CoLab Theatre: Crooks
- CoLab Theatre: Hostage
- CoLab Theatre: Hunted
- Exit Productions (London): Revolution
- Fire Hazard: Undercover
- Hidden City (London): Bright Lights Evening Trail
- Hide and Shriek: Dead Centre
- Incredible Midtown: The game
- Lamplighters
- Onigo (London): The Break Out
- Parabolic Theatre (London): For King and Country
- Parabolic Theatre (London): Morningstar
- Party Geek (London): Hidden Figures
- Perfect Plus: Brussels is Burning
- Red Bull Mind Gamers: Qualifiers
- The Game’s Afoot: The Case of the Poisonous Poet
- The House of Time and Wonder
- Wiretapper
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hey guys – great site – I run ScareTOUR and we have review a number of incredible horror themed room escapes across the country. Would highly recommend Hell in A Cell in Bristol – check out our review here http://www.scaretouruk.com/review—hell-in-a-cell-bristol.html
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Thanks for the tip. I was actually aware of Hell in a Cell precisely because of your review which appeared on my radar in October last year (and in turn, I told the exitgames blog about it, which is how it got onto the country wide escape room map!).
To be honest, I’m not a big fan of serious scare attractions, but when I eventually make a trip across to Bristol to play the rooms there, Hell in a Cell will definitely be on my list based on what you’ve said in the review.
One good turn deserves another. If you’ve not heard of it, Mr Chuckles Funhouse in Macclesfield might appeal. http://www.escapequest.co.uk/mr-chuckles-funhouse.html
You can read an escape reviewer’s take on it here:
http://www.reallyfun.uk/viciously-ironic-bad-clown-escape-quest-macclesfield/
I can’t promise it will wow you as a scare attraction, but if you enjoy escape rooms too then it’s a great example of that on the side of the genre which you’re more interested in!
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Thanks for this site! We’ve just done our 24th escape room, mostly across Europe, and it’s great that we’ve got a resource to weed out the good rooms in London. Thanks!
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No worries. Glad to help. This list is just a starting point though – everyone’s taste is a bit different. If you’re ever looking for more detailed recommendations, send me an email and I’d be happy to help.