2025: How was your escaping year?

When I wrote the first of these blog posts I hadn’t really considered it would become an annual thing or that even some people in the industry would even look forward to them being published… Once again I would like to thank everyone who has commented (positively or not) about my writing, linked me news […]

What makes a 5* Game?

I’ve been reviewing games on EtR* for almost as long as I’ve been playing Escape Games. As of writing this section, I’ve played 580 games and reviewed/rated 572 of them on the site. Why the discrepancy? There’s a couple of reasons and I’ll go into those when I do my post about reviewing games. (*Escape […]

2024: How was your Escaping Year?

The tree is down, the festive food has been eaten and a new year has dawned. Is it really 25 years since the millennium? Here is my round up of numbers, comment and thoughts on the Escape Room industry after another 12 months. How many games did I play, which ones did I like the […]

The 2-Player Conundrum

I published my Escaping review of 2023 on December 28th last year and in the comments section of that post on the UK enthusiast Facebook page, a debate started about both the cost and the validity of venues offering games for just 2 players. This came about after a comment saying that ticket prices should […]

2023: How was your escaping year?

The presents have been opened, crackers pulled and festive food eaten. I’m hoping you had a great Christmas and are now making plans for 2024, but before you do I would like to take one last look at the escaping year we just had. How many games did you play? Not as many as even 2022 […]

2022: How was your Escaping?

As you read this I’m hoping you’ve had a fantastic Christmas and are currently dissecting the remains of your holiday food! This post is a look back at my last twelve months of escaping, what I enjoyed, some reflection on the last couple of years and some thoughts on the future. How many games did […]

Escape Rooms: My likes and dislikes

Does your heart sink when you see a particular element in a room? Everybody has ‘those’ things that instantly cause the mouth to go dry and the sweat to bead. Similarly, some things make you smile, something familiar, something you know how it works, etc. This post is all about my pet likes/dislikes of escape […]

The Path to Escape Rooms

I gave up trying to explain my hobbies/passions to my parents a long time ago. This is the way the conversations would often go: – Dungeons & Dragons: “So it’s a board game where there is no board and no one wins?” LARP: “So you get dressed up, run around a forest and hit each […]

Escape Rooms: Hints & Tips for playing

There are many potential approaches to an escape room when that door closes and the timer begins. The first thing depends on your situation, are you split off from your party or otherwise secluded from each other? Once that initial situation has been resolved you could do worse than follow the advice in this video […]

Rating and Reviewing Escape Rooms

How do you rate an Escape Room? What makes one room better or worse than another? There’s a wide range of reviews at escapethereview.co.uk (EtR) as well as various blogging sites who constantly review rooms that they have played. I’ve not yet reviewed a room or venue on this blog but I do give brief […]