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
- Isle of Man
- Exit Strategy in Isle of Man opened Through the Looking Glass
- East Midlands
- Escape Stations is a new venue due to open in Nottingham.
- Trapp’d Kettering opened VX 2.0
- Escape Lincoln opened Sherlock: Judgement
- Enigma Rooms Lincoln opened S.W.A.T.
- North West England
- I missed this happening a few weeks ago – Breakout Manchester closed down their Town Hall site and opened up a new venue nearby with three games – copies of Vacancy and Captured from their other Manchester location plus Cursed Carnival which is present at a couple of their other sites.
- Atherton Escape Rooms opened Prison Break
- Lancaster Escape opened The Cutting Room
- Lakes Escape in Workington opened Casino Heist
- North East England
- Enigma Escape Rooms Middlesborough in Middlesbrough opened Detention, a game targeted at 8-13 year olds
- South East England
- Pier Pressure in Brighton opened Loot the Lanes
- Clever Dilemma in Faversham opened Murder at the Wild West Quest Saloon
- ClueCapers in Winchester opened Treehouse Retrieval
- East of England
- Breakout Rooms in Watford opened Exorcism
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- Unlocky Escape Rooms is a new venue opening in the town of Malton, outside York.
- Cryptic Escape Rooms in Huddersfield opened Order of the Sorceror
- The Cabin is opening at Escape Hull
- Escape Rooms Scarborough opened Sherlock Holmes and the Doomsday Machine
- The Mysterious Case of Hugh Dunitt is opening at Cryptology Rooms Sheffield
- GR8escape York opened Ministry of Wizards
- Clue HQ Harrogate opened CSI: The Panic Room.
- West Midlands
- Ex(c)iting Game Birmingham opened Dawn of Hell
- London
- Clue Adventures closed The Book of Secrets
- Scotland
- Xcape Room is a new venue in Glasgow with three games – Suspector, Wonderworld and Agent-X.
- Escape 808 in Aberdeen opened Escape from TV
- Escape Haymarket in Edinburgh underwent a total revamp closing down their old games and opening three new ones – Carnival of Curiosities, Ocean’s Escape and a sequel for their Contagion game called 8 Years Later
- Glasgow School of Magic is opening at Locked In Escape Room in Glasgow
- Blog posts
- DISCOMLOGICATED
- Immersophenia
- Review the Room
- Unlock & Roll
- Breaking Out of a Habit
- The Logic Escapes Me
- Escaping Rooms
- Brit of an Escape Habit
- Escape Goats
- London Escape Room Guide
- Escape the Review
- Roomsmiths: The Naked Eye
- Escape Down The Rabbit Hole: Battle For Valondor
- Escape Rooms Paignton: The Great Train Robbery
- Escape Rooms Paignton: The Agatha Christie Mystery
- Red House Mysteries: The Strange Disappearance of Arthur Moon
- Devon Escape: Death on Dartmoor
- Devon Escape: Professor Enright’s Enigma
- London Escapists
- 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!