Welcome to your “weekly” fix of UK and Irish escape room news covering everything that this site has discovered in the last seven fourteen days!
Exit Games is always on the look-out for new rooms or venues that are opening, references in the media or anything else that might be of interest to the readers, so please do send an email if you spot anything of interest. That applies to owners too – feel free to send me your news for inclusion here. Don’t be shy!
On to the news
- London
- The Evening standard published this list of their five best escape rooms in London.
- I’m not entirely sure when but at some point in the last few months, Escape Games London closed Escape the Theatre and replaced it with Sinister Cinema
- South East England
- The Panic Room Gravesend are opening yet another venue in Gravesend, bringing their total to four different locations in the town (possibly five depending on how you count it). Expect to see a 30-minute Pocahontas themed room in the not too distant future.
- …and congratulations are also in order after they won the Business of the Year award at Gravesham Business Awards!
- West Midlands
- The Birmingham mail wrote an article on Escape Time’s new magic game in Sutton Coldfield.
- Scotland
- Thanks to Exit Games Scotland for pointing out that there’s a new venue coming to Falkirk – Transcend Escape Rooms looks like it might have two games in the works.
- Yet another brand has jumped on the escape room bandwagon with Tennents being the latest company to run a popup.
- South West England
- Escape Time opened their venue in St Ives with two games: The Chocolate Factory and Prison X
- North East England
- It’s a somewhat surprising reference but Cluedini got a big mention in the opening paragraph of this Sun article on Middlesborough footballer, Patrick Bamford.
- East Midlands
- Escape Leicester opened its doors with two rooms: Witchcraft and Wizardry and Area 51
- East of England
- Don’t Get Locked In are a new venue in Leighton Buzzard with a single room – The Secret Hut
- Blog posts
- The Logic Escapes Me
- Clue HQ Warrington: The Vault
- Indizio (Koln/Cologne): John’s Secret
- Indizio (Koln/Cologne): Santa’s List
- Real Life Games (Ramsgate): Extinction
- The Guest House Escape Room (Leeds): The Tarot Room and Professor Willibanks
- Hour Escape Rooms (Peterborough): The Black Diamond
- Thinking Outside the Box (Peterborough): Retro
- The Panic Room (Gravesend): Defective Detective
- Lockdown Escape Rooms (Oldham): A.W.O.L.
- Lockup Escape Room (Sheffield): Meltdown
- Lock Us Up
- Game Over Rochdale: Winter is Coming
- Game Over Rochdale: Pirates of Caribbean
- Enigma Quests London: The Million Pound Heist
- Secret Studio London
- Time Run London: Lance of Longinus & Celestial Chain
- Locked In Games Leeds: The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe
- Escape Reality Leeds: The Iron Kingdom
- Escape Reality Leeds: Down the Rabbit Hole
- Escaping Rooms
- Immersophenia
- Escape the Review
- Locked In Games: Hotel Heist
- The Guest House: The Tarot Room of Madame Virtue
- Tick Tock Unlock: The Hatch
- Escape Hunt: Our Finest Hour
- Thinking Outside The Box: Retro
- City Mazes: The Runner
- Guildford Escape Rooms: The Case of the Missing Gun
- Guildford Escape Rooms: Venus
- Containment: The Vault
- Containment: The Bomb
- The Disco Messiah
- Escape and Conquer
- To Clue Or Not To Clue
- Brit of an Escape Habit
- Exit The Room: Murder
- Co-Decode – Professor Dunstan and the Search for the Ancient Statuette
- Incarcerated – Conspiracy, Agenda 21
- Escape From The Room – Cabin in the Woods
- Escape From The Room – The Curse of old Maid Milly
- The Panic Room – The Witch House
- The Panic Room – The Tomb
- The Panic Room – Enigma
- The Panic Room – LOOP
- The Panic Room – RESURGENCY
- The “Great” Escapees
- Escape Room Artist
- Escape Goats
- escape-game-addicts
- The Logic Escapes Me
That’s all I’m aware of. If any of the above is incorrect or if you’re aware of other news, significant discounts or competitions, then let me know via email or in the comments below and I’ll include updates in the next edition.
Thanks for reading!