3 August 2024
The Great Escape Game is home to a range of escape rooms and live action, creative experiences. With two venues based in Leeds and Sheffield, the team work hard to ensure unforgettable memories are made for groups of friends, family or colleagues. The experiences themselves are a combination of everyday life, video games and movies to put teams to the test solving a range of puzzles. The venue in Sheffield houses five unique escape rooms, alongside The Haunted Hound, a new self-led experience based on a haunted bar and Dungeon Darts, themed AR Darts. The escape rooms on offer are:
Abducted: A story of mystery and fear builds tension as players solve various puzzles and tense challenges. This room is not for the faint hearted and is a one of a kind immersive, thrilling experience featuring horrific atmospheres and intense moments.
Submerged: This submarine adventure takes players to explore an underwater world. Working together a team, navigate through the unexpected solving a series of puzzles along the way. Prepare for a thrilling mission like no other as you submerge into the depths of the ocean.
No Hope in Hell, the second chapter of The Devil’s Playground: Are you ready to play games with the Devil? Time to rescue your friend who sold their soul for a scratch card in this thrilling game with a new storyline and 18 new puzzles!
Wizards of Time: Prepare to be transported to an enchanted world filled with spellbinding adventures and captivating puzzles. This immersive experience takes players on a one of a kind journey to ignite your imagination.
Run: Located in an abandoned orphanage, players must overcome challenges and work together as a team when sheltering from the storm. This spine chilling tale features a range of spooky elements in a race against the clock.
All rooms are available now to book online with prices starting from £22 per person depending on the games and number of players. The Great Escape Game is open 7 days a week with various daily offers and discounts for students.
We were invited by the team to visit and play the escape room, Run.
Theming & Storyline – 8/10
Run has a creepy feel to the room as soon as you step inside. Due to being based on an abandoned orphanage, we felt immersed from the get go with dark enclosed spaces and spooky soundtrack. The story prior to entering the room sets the scene as to why we ended up there and it was our job to escape before the children’s souls return at the strike of midnight. Players are required to wear a blindfold as you enter the room to create tension as soon as the game begins. This is a very unique element for us and something we have not seen too many times previously. Our senses were heightened and it really immersed us into the storyline.
There were different layers to the room allowing players to explore various elements including the corridor and bedroom of the house. With various props and simplistic effects, the team were able to create suspenseful moments enhancing the creepy vibes. Whilst the experience was not exactly tagged as a horror experience, it was clear that an unsettling and disturbing environment has been created very well with the use of props both large and small such as iron gates to enter the house and children’s toys.
Puzzles & Flow – 7/10
There are a wide variety of puzzles throughout Run. This linear room had a good flow from one scene to the next but required some precision in areas. We did have to ask for a couple of clues throughout the experience to keep us on the right track but we thoroughly enjoyed the size and scale of the some of the puzzles including the light up skulls. We liked how there was a great variety of both mental and physical challenges with crawling into the fireplace as well as identifying the different symbols to create the spell. These challenges blended in perfectly with the overall theme and storyline making it difficult to concentrate at times with the eerie atmosphere around us.
Uniqueness – 6/10
Although we have seen a number of rooms before themed around an orphanage, this in itself was a very unique maze as it was not classed as a horror theme. There are some unique puzzles that we have not seen before, as well as entering with a blindfold on. We liked how there were some very detailed elements and thought through moments with the puzzles fitting in well with the theme. The room itself was situated in a one of a kind venue with a haunted bar to enable players to extend their spooky experience.
Overall, we had a fantastic time at The Great Escape Game, we really enjoyed taking part in Run and escaping with 7 minutes to spare! The theming, storyline and puzzles all worked together really well and felt there was enough in the room to do as a group of three to work together as a team within the eerie setting.
We do not want to spoil the game for you but would thoroughly recommending visiting and we would love to return to play another escape room game in the future. Thank you to the team for inviting us to take part in playing in return for our review and social media content.
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