Escape Room Horror

Escape Key: Plague | Review

Back in 1636, half of Newcastle’s population had succumbed to the Black Death. ​ Enter our plague escape room, which overlooks a real plague pit. Can you outwit the crazed plague doctor and escape before the horror of the Black Death gets you? Date Played: August 2023 Number of Players: 4 Time Taken: 23 minutes […]Read More

Christmas

Scarlet Envelope: Holiday Greeting Cards | Review

Scarlet Envelope Holiday Greeting Cards Review | Decipher Santa’s wish, solve multi-layered puzzles with Rudolf, THINK, and HAVE FUN! Date Played: August 2023 Number of Players: 1 Time Taken: 20–30 minutes per card Difficulty: Medium It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas… 🎶 Okay, so here in the UK, it’s pretty warm right now… […]Read More

Boxed Games Play at Home

BreakInBox: Blue & Black | Review

BreakInBox Review | Three locked boxes one inside the other. Breakinbox Challenges weave together versatile knowledge worlds making the solution a complex unique experience.  Date Played: July 2023 Number of Players: 3 Time Taken: ~20 – ~60 minutes Difficulty: Easy-Medium I always get extra excited when I received puzzle games from far flung countries around […]Read More

Books Play at Home

George Wylesol: 2120 | Review

George Wylesol 2120 Review | You’re Wade, a schlubby middle-aged computer repairman, sent to fix a computer in a vacant, nondescript office building. When you get inside the door locks behind you, and you can’t get out. Now the adventure begins! You have to explore this building and try to find your way home. The […]Read More

Articles Blog

How to throw a Taskmaster themed party

So today’s blog post isn’t exactly escape room themed. Wait, what?! A non escape room post on The Escape Roomer? Scandalous! Unless of course you count the fact that many of the Taskmaster series have incredibly puzzle-y and escape room-like challenges in them? And that Alex Horne himself is an escape room enthusiast, which we […]Read More