Welcome to your fix of UK and Irish escape room news covering everything that this site has discovered since the last update!
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
- West Midlands
- Escape Hunt are set to open a new venue at Resorts World in Birmingham. No details of what games they’ll be installing but they claim it will happen this year.
- Christmas Conundrum is opening at 007 Escape Rooms in Wolverhampton
- A Lost Claus is opening at Chase the Escape in Wolverhampton
- South East England
- Arctic Survival is opening at Vire (Aylesbury)
- Lapland is opening at Other World Escapes Portsmouth
- Real Life Games in Ramsgate opened Feline Fiasco a couple of weeks ago.
- Cyantist in Southampton has seemingly closed down and with it their two games: Crystal Maze and The Cube
- South West England
- The Three Trials of Christmas is opening at Cornwall’s Great Escape Rooms
- E=MC Scared is opening at Excape in Exmouth
- London
- Christmas Crisis is about to be bookable again at Agent November. For those of you who haven’t heard of it before, this is their “meal and an escape experience” offering that they run over Christmas.
- Enigma Quests have opened Submarine: Mission Wavebreak
- Fantasma is opening at Clue Adventures – The Coach and Horses
- The Riddle Within opened Flight 338 this week. Their next game, Chernobyl isn’t due to open till January.
- North West England
- Code to Exit in Manchester opened Endless Energy
- Santa’s Cabin is opening at moviESCAPE Stockport
- Escape Game Over already have venues in Derby, Falkirk and Edinburgh but look set to open a new location in Liverpool. No word yet as to what games they’ll be launching.
- Red Herring Escape Rooms in Carlisle recently opened Shipwreck Island and Mudley Quest
- Escape Stockport opened Christmas Nightmare
- North East England
- Christmas Nightmare is opening at Project Escape in Middlesbrough
- The Escape Key in Newcastle opened Electric City
- The Twelve Heists of Christmas is opening at Enigmatology in Stockton-on-Tees
- The Strategy in Sunderland opened The Box Zombie Apocalypse
- Northern Ireland
- The Naughty List 2019 is opening at Elementary Escape Rooms in Portrush
- Scotland
- The Edinburgh Dungeon has launched an escape game. This is at least the fourth UK Merlin atttraction to get an escape room although they don’t seem to have settled on a single provider yet – this time round, it’s local company Transcend that have put the experience together.
- Christmas Dream is opening at Locked In Escape Room in Glasgow
- Wales
- Exitus in Cardiff opened Christmas Chaos
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- Santa’s Grotto is opening at Labyrinth in Grimsby
- The Escaporium in Halifax opened A Christmas Advent-ure
- Enigma Rooms Wakefield opened Christmas Catastrophe
- East of England
- Christmas Candy Chaos is opening at Bishop’s Stortford Escape Rooms
- Cryptx in Cambridge opened Santa’s Workshop
- Escape Live Chelmsford opens its doors this week with three games based on Indestroom designs – Escape the Jungle, Sword in the Stone and Star Quest
- Strange Things is opening at Locked Escapes in Dunstable
- Tricky Escape Harwich have opened Runaway Rudolph
- Maldon Escape Rooms opened When Santa got stuck up the Chimney
- Room Escape Southend opened The Gingerbread House
- Blog posts
- Room Escape Artist
- The Logic Escapes Me
- Unlock & Roll
- Review the Room
- Pressure Point: The Moonlit Wild (Ashford)
- Pressure Point: Broken (Ashford)
- Pressure Point: Murder on the Dance Floor (Ashford)
- Time Run Presents: Sherlock: The Game Is Now (London)
- Time Lock: Deutschland ’89 (Worthing)
- Pier Pressure: Pavilion Perplex (Brighton)
- Pier Pressure: Raver Quest (Brighton)
- Containment: The Lab (Worplesdon)
- Containment: The Bomb (Worplesdon)
- DISCOMLOGICATED
- Immersophenia
- Lock Us Up
- Brit of an Escape Habit
- Breaking Out of a Habit
- (Re)View Two Escape
- Granny & the Anthropomorphic Panda Avengers…Escape!
- London Escapists
- Escaping Rooms
- Escape Goats
- Escape the Review
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!