2020: The Rise of the Remote Escape Room

It was all planned out. I would hit my 100th escape room just after my birthday weekend of escaping, the chosen room was Curio at Escapologic. I should have played it the weekend following the first lockdown announcement which of course closed everything. One of the (very) few positive things to come out 2020 was […]

Escape Rooms: Is the Story important?

I’ve been exploring fantasy worlds for practically all of my life, from when I first saw Star Wars in 1978, to the first time I played Dungeons & Dragons in the late 80’s to when I then started LARPing a few years after that. Always to me, the story has been most important. Consider one […]

Escape Rooms: Are they scary?

Probably my first horror-themed room was Lethal Decision in Athens (only my 13th ever game!). You start the game hooded and chained up with an actor standing over you wreathed in smoke, a strobe going off behind him and also holding a revving petrol-powered chainsaw (without the belt on). You heard the noise and smelt […]

How Difficult are Escape Rooms?

A frequent topic on the main enthusiast page is room difficulty, how to gauge how easy/hard they really are. Some venues use a star rating to try and differentiate different rooms but really, how reliable is this? At a recent visit to Escape Lincoln I played both their easiest (***) and their hardest (*****) rooms […]