Welcome to your weekly fix of UK and Irish escape room news covering everything that this site has discovered in the last seven 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
- International
- Here’s a sketch from a German comedy show about Brexit that models Britain as a group of players in an escape room. More evidence that escape rooms have become mainstream…
- West Midlands (big thanks to Paul for keeping me updated!)
- Escape Time in Burton is opening its doors with two games: Sam’s Saloon and Prison X
- Grand Escapes in Birmingham has opened its second room, Mystic Room 1409
- Escape Nation in Stafford has opened its doors with its first game entitled The Citadel and a second game on the way.
- North East England
- Elementary is re-opening at Project Escape in Middlesbrough
- Scotland
- V90 is opening at Breakout Games Aberdeen
- Overthrone is due to open at Escape Dundee
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- Escape Hunt Leeds opened Dr Who: Worlds Collide
- East Midlands
- Escape the Room in Mansfield opened Pirates – Cursed Gold
- Wales
- Tenby’s Asylum is opening at Tenby’s Great Escape
- North West England
- Clue HQ Bury seems to have opened up in the venue previously occupied by Trapped In. No mention of whether it’s in any way connected to the previous occupants. Their first game, interestingly, isn’t a standard Clue HQ design but an entirely new theme: Clueston – We Have a Problem.
- South East England
- Hysteria Escape Rooms in Chatham opened The Forgotten Realm
- Lovers Murder is opening at Xcape Station in Eastbourne
- Escape 60 in Folkestone opened The Compactor
- Escape 3600 in Maidenhead opened Welcome to the Jungle
- Blog posts
- The Logic Escapes Me
- What’s on at the Vault 2019?
- A Tourist’s Review of 50+ Budapest Escape Rooms
- Budapest Escape Review: TRAP – Anachronista
- Budapest Escape Review: Mindquest – Portal
- Budapest Escape Review: AROOM – Metro
- Budapest Escape Review: E-Exit – Santa Muerte
- Budapest Escape Review: Mystery Games – Secrets of the Deep
- Budapest Escape Review: Mystique Rooms
- Escape Goats
- Escaping Rooms
- Escape the Review
- 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!