The full list of reviews on the blog:
- A day out at the Panic Room (Gravesend): Wizard of Oz, Pocahontas, Prison Van, Ten Fathoms Deep, Revolución Olé
- A Great Escape: The ENIGMA room
- Adventox (London) – Haunted: The Curse of Dr Stevens
- 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
- AI Escape (London): Project Ðelta
- 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): Nerve Klinik
- Break Escape (Loughborough): The Enchanted Forest
- 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
- Breakin’ Escape (London): Wizarding School
- 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
- Budapest Escape Review: AROOM – Metro
- Budapest Escape Review: E-Exit – Santa Muerte
- Budapest Escape Review: Mindquest – Portal
- Budapest Escape Review: Mystery Games – Secrets of the Deep
- Budapest Escape Review: TRAP – Anachronista
- Can You Escape York: Operation Lone Eagle
- Can You Escape? (York): Operation H.E.R.O.
- Canterbury Escape Rooms: Jail Escape
- Cave Escape (Nottingham): Carfax
- City Mazes (London): Bamboozled
- City Mazes (London): The Lost Cabin
- Clever Dilemma (Faversham): Dracula’s Chambers
- 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 Capers (Winchester): A Curious Inheritance
- 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 (London) – cQ: ORIGENES
- 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
- Co-Decode (Swindon): Sub Terra
- 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
- Compendium (Bury): Wrong Turn
- Crack It (Bolton): Haunted Mansion
- Crack It Bolton: Pirate Cove
- Crackit Bolton: Boot Camp
- Crime Runners (Vienna/Wien, Austria): Going Underground
- Cryptology (Nottingham): Rameseize
- 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
- Ctrl-Alt-Esc (Margate): Detention
- 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
- Doomsday Games (Colchester): Pathogen
- 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 (Doncaster): Mafia
- Enigma Rooms (Doncaster): The Heist
- 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 Hub (Maidstone): Inbound
- 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 in the Towers (Canterbury): The Comms Room
- 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 (Macclesfield): Henry Fortune’s House of Illusion
- Escape Quest (Macclesfield): Mr Copplestone’s Curiosity Shoppe
- Escape Quest (Macclesfield): The 13th Element
- 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 the Yellow Sub (Liverpool)
- 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 (Portsmouth): Murder at the Movies
- Exciting Escapes (Southampton): Silence is a Virtue
- 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 Newcastle: Fiorella’s Cave and Volatile Laboratories
- Exit Strategy: Nostromo
- Exit Strategy: the Illuminati
- Exit the Game (Málaga, Spain): Operation Kandinsky
- Experimental Escape (Leamington Spa): The Machine
- Extremescape (Disley): Viking
- 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
- Guildford Escape Rooms: The Case of the Missing Gun
- Guildford Escape Rooms: Venus
- 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 Experience (Southampton): Escape the RMS Titanic
- Houdini’s Escape Room: Escape from Alcatraz
- Hour Escape Rooms (Peterborough): The Black Diamond
- Hysteria Escape Rooms (Chatham): Aftermath, Motel California and The Forgotten Realm
- iLocked Nottingham: The Mummy
- Imperial War Museums/HMS Belfast/Clockwork Dog (London): Damage Control
- Incarcerated (Swindon): Agenda 21
- 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
- LetsXcape (Newark): The Rig
- 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 (London): The House of Alistair Moon
- 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
- London Escaped: Da Vinci
- London Escaped: School of Magic
- London Escaped: The Prisoner
- London Escaped: White Walker
- Lucardo (Manchester): Contamination
- Lucardo (Manchester): Gem Runner
- Lucardo (Manchester): University of Magic
- Lucardo (Rawtenstall, Lancashire): Corruption
- Lucardo Rawtenstall – University of Magic: Dragon’s Heart.
- Lucardo: The Dream
- Lucardo: Virginia House
- Make Your Escape (Derby): Spellbound
- Make Your Escape (Derby): The Signal
- Make Your Escape (Derby): Utopia and Dystopia
- 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
- Mostly Harmless (London): Phobos 17
- Mostly Harmless at the Vault Festival (London): Escape the Jacket
- moviESCAPE: SAWtopsy
- moviESCAPE: The Haunted House
- Mystery Cube
- Namco Funscape: Escape Room
- Netherlands Escape Review: Kamer 237 (Volkel)
- Netherlands Escape Review: Locked Amsterdam – The Liebermann Conspiracy
- Netherlands Escape Review: Mysterium (Utrecht)
- Never Give Up (Newcastle): King Tut’s Tomb and The Dungeon
- Omescape Aldgate (London): Kingdom of Cats
- 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
- Paris Escape Review: HintHunt – The Pirate’s Secret
- Paris Escape Review: Majestic Escape Game (Atlantis)
- Paris Escape Review: Odyssey – La Pièce
- Paris Escape Review: The Game – Space Mission
- Pier Pressure (Brighton): Loot the Lanes
- Pier Pressure (Brighton): Modrophenia
- Pier Pressure (Brighton): Pavilion Perplex
- Pirate Escape (Whitley Bay): Forbidden Jungle, The Brig and Mutiny
- Popup Escape Room: A Licence to Escape
- Popup Escapes (London): The Case of the Dynamo Diamonds
- Prague Escape Review: Decrypt – The Red Room
- Prague Escape Review: Elixir Mystery
- Prague Escape Review: MindMaze – Galactic Pioneers
- Prague Escape Review: The Chamber – Poltergeist
- Pressure Point (Ashford): Broken
- Pressure Point (Ashford): The Accused
- Pressure Point (Ashford): The Moonlit Wild
- Pressure Point Escape Rooms (Ashford): Murder on the Dancefloor
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.