Welcome to your fix of UK and Irish escape room news covering everything that this site has discovered in the last few 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
- South West England
- Dartmouth Escapes is a new venue opening up in Devon. No details yet about the games they expect to open – watch this space!
- Puzzlair in Bristol has replaced two of their games with the introduction of The Room of Al Capone and The Road to the Fortress
- Trapped Escape Rooms in Gloucester has opened a new location in Longsmith St with two new games: The Butcher and Zombie Apocalypse
- Devon Escape opened D-Day for Devon
- Cell Block C is opening at Clue HQ Somerton
- South East England
- Escape Kent in Canterbury opened their long-awaited The Haunting last week
- Ireland
- Know Way Out is a new venue in Kilkenny with three games – Rogue Nation, Lost Soul and Shawshanked
- London
- Trapped, of Trapped in a Room with a Zombie fame, opened Trapped Undercover, a physical version of their previously mobile-only game.
- East Midlands
- Gas Alert is opening at One Way Out in Oakham
- East of England
- The Escape Barn are launching a 30 minute escape room in Suffolk called Mary’s Room and were featured in the local paper.
- Patient Zero is opening at Bishop’s Stortford Escape Rooms
- Blog posts
- Escaping Rooms
- Escape the Review
- Adventure Vault: The Scandal
- Adventure Vault: The Beginning
- Argyx Games: Apocalypse: Sign of the Cross
- Cliffhanger Rooms: Haunted Pirate Ship
- Experimental Escape: The Machine
- History Mystery: Leonardo Artmergency!
- Trapped Escape Rooms: The Bletchley Blueprints Are Missing!
- Trapped Escape Rooms: Templars: The Secret Service
- Red House Mysteries: The Shadow Darkens
- Granny & the Anthropomorphic Panda Avengers…Escape!
- The Logic Escapes Me
- Ctrl-Alt-Esc (Margate): Detention
- The Escapement (Margate): The Pit
- Exit Newcastle: Fiorella’s Cave and Volatile Laboratories
- Pirate Escape (Whitley Bay): Forbidden Jungle, The Brig and Mutiny
- Pressure Point (Ashford): The Moonlit Wild
- Pressure Point (Ashford): Broken
- Thorpe Park: Jungle Escape
- Vienna Escape Review: No Way Out – Belvedere, School of Magic and Da Vinci
- Other World Escapes (Portsmouth): The Pub and Vermilion
- Exciting Escapes (Portsmouth): Murder at the Movies
- Escape Goats
- The Uncontainables – Escape Room Reviews UK
- Lock Us Up
- Unlock & Roll
- Brit of an Escape Habit
- Review the Room
- Breaking Out of a Habit
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!
Hi Ken, hope your well. Just to let you know that we finally open at mythologic escape rooms in Gillingham. As of the 26/7/2019 with 2 rooms (hypnos & the game) our horror game penn13wise is still under wraps for now…