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
- North West England
- Operation Santa is opening at Lucardo in Manchester
- Christmas Chaos is opening at Adrenaline Escape in Wigan
- Lakes Escape in Workington opened Who Stole Christmas?
- Earnies is a new venue in Colne which has opened Scare Mill Escape Rooms with a cash prize to the first team to escape…
- East of England
- Vire is opening a new venue in Hemel Hempstead – games should be launched very soon but expect to see them importing games from their other sites.
- Tricky Escape in Clacton-On-Sea opened The Damned
- While their counterpart in Harwich, Tricky Escape Harwich, has closed The Attic to make way for Runaway Rudolph later this month.
- The Forgotten Fairground is opening at Suffolk Food Hall in Ipswich
- Room Escape Southend is closing The Cottage. Expect to see the Gingerbread house open next week.
- South West England
- Clue HQ is launching a venue in Bournemouth – the website suggests CSI, Cluetankhamun and Cell Block C but it’s not clear yet whether those are placeholders or the actual thing being built.
- Lock and Code Taunton opened The Night Before Christmas
- East Midlands
- There’s a new venue opening in Grantham – I’m guessing Escape Grantham will show a little more creativity in their games than their choice of name!
- Break Escape open Christmas Cheer this week
- Deadlocked Rooms Loughborough opened The Vault Squad
- Want to Escape Rushden opened The Conspiracy Theory and their temporary Christmas game, Santa’s Stowaway
- Scotland
- NO-ELves is opening at The Locked Door in Aberdeen
- Santa’s List is opening at Catch 22 in Glasgow
- South East England
- The Great Elfscape is opening at Pier Pressure in Brighton
- Advent Avenue is opening at Hysteria Escape Rooms in Chatham
- From Beyond is opening at Elusion Rooms (High Street) in Southampton
- West Midlands
- CYBER Q Escape Rooms in Worcester opened Kings Never Die and The Virus Man
- Naughty or Nice? is opening at Top Escape Rooms in Worcester
- London
- Komnata London is opening a third venue in the capital. Expect to see the Impossible Murder Mystery appear there.
- Clue HQ Kingston opened End of the Line
- Operation Escape opened Santa’s Lost Presents
- The Demon Barber of Oxford St is opening at No Escape London
- Komnata London (Tinworth St) opened The Impossible Murder Mystery
- Clue Adventures – The Coach and Horses opened Jet2Space, a two-player game, and will soon be opening another couple of games
- London Escaped opened 50 Shades of Red which I’m assuming is targeted at adults.
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- Escape Rooms White Rose is a new venue from the Escapologist which is starting to appear in a variety of entertainment venues.
- Bridlington Escape opened Black Hills Saloon
- The Escapologist Castleford opened Mystery Mayhem
- Labyrinth in Grimsby opened The Heist: Part 2
- Santa’s Christmas Conundrum is opening at The Live Escape 2 in Huddersfield
- Cryptic Escape Rooms in Huddersfield closed Order of the Sorceror and opening Christmas Cabin
- Blog posts
- London Escapists
- Escape the Review
- Brit of an Escape Habit
- Escape Goats
- Review the Room
- (Re)View Two Escape
- Lock Us Up
- Escaping Rooms
- Granny & the Anthropomorphic Panda Avengers…Escape!
- Unlock & Roll
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!
City Mazes in Cardiff are relocating to a venue in the city centre and have overhauled their rooms. The new venue is at Pins at Play (according to their Instagram, it’ll be open on Nov 16th).