London has it’s fair share of incredible, immersive experiences – from Phantom Peak, to the Tomb Raider Live Experience, to the Gunpowder Plot to name a few. The latest to join the capital is something a little different however… Enter: Bridge Command. Bridge Command is the new gaming theatre sci-fi experience where participants become the crew of a starship travelling through space. There are two types of mission: Military, and Exploration Depending on which mission the players pick, teams of up to 14 people will take on their wildest adventures through space and experience first hand the m ..read more

Phantom Peak is London’s most popular immersive experience venue. Located just a short walk from Canada Water in London, it boasts a large, 30,000 square feet (+) “playing area” consisting of an indoor wild west down, an outdoor board walk, a river, countless NPCs to meet and interact with, and plenty of secrets. It describes itself as a fully immersive, open-world experience, part escape room, part immersive theatre, part real-life videogame. Now, let’s be sure about one thing – there’s a lot to do. In fact, by design, there’s too much to do. Phantom Peak is best played over multiple days and ..read more

Star Crew Review | The SS Clementine is an old but beloved starship known for its technical problems. When the internal system fails mid-flight, the crew is forced to make an emergency crash landing on a nearby planet. Power cells have come loose during the bumpy landing, and many of the ship’s systems have been knocked offline. You are the engineering team assigned to repair the ship and save the crew – can you become the valiant Star Crew and save the day before time runs out? Date Played: March 2024 Time Taken: 26:25 Number of Players: 4 Difficulty: Easy So Escape Reality doesn’t have the b ..read more

Mystery and Moonshine Review | It’s 1931 rum-runners and bootleggers have mostly kept the city supplied with sub-standard gut-rot gin and bathtub bourbon. Now a large shipment of top-quality Mississippi Moonshine vanished from Capones dockland warehouse. He called on his ‘old pal’ private investigator Mick Macy. Date Played: February 2024 Number of Players: 3 Difficulty: Easy Time Taken: 26:34 Having lived in Edinburgh a couple of years now, I’m finally willing to admit that I’ve exhausted all the local escape rooms. Further an issue when escape room friends come to visit *cough cough* as team ..read more

007 Shadow of Spectre Review: MI6 needs your help.  It is critical you follow 007’s trail.  Gather intelligence, navigate the city and solve clues in a bid to outsmart Spectre… Number of Players: 3 Time Taken: 2-3 hours (including breaks) Date Played: February 2024 Difficulty: Moderate Let’s be honest.  Who hasn’t, at some point, walked the streets of London and imagined what it would be like to be an undercover operative? Tailing a suspect or making a dead drop, collar up, shades on, looking oh-so-discreet and inconspicuous?  If you’re here because you love playing escape ..read more

Coco Loco Review | It’s time to take over the family chocolate factory. What will you give up for the perfect chocolate? Date Played: October 2023 Number of Players: 2 Time Taken: 31 Minutes Difficulty: Easy I was only passing through Cardiff on my way to The Locksmith’s Dream, but I can’t pass up an opportunity to visit a new city and not play an escape room whilst I’m there. Just a quick glance on my Welsh friend Armchair Escapist‘s blog and I found the highly rated Coco Loco right there in the heart of the city and, as luck would have it, they had a slot open for that evening. Plus, our ver ..read more

In this post we’re diving into some of the escape room podcasts the team at The Escape Roomer regularly listen to. From solve-a-long puzzles, to interviews with designers and creators, to mysterious audio dramas with hidden puzzles to solve. In these, there’s a little bit of everything for all types of podcast listeners. So without further ado, are our absolute favourite escape room themed podcasts you should check out:   The Infinite Escape Room Podcast “The puzzling podcast where a gaggle of geographically diverse chums come together, have a drink – and work together to solve a home ma ..read more

Draknek & Friends is excited to announce that Cerebral Puzzle Showcase will return on Steam from May 23 to May 30 2024! The Cerebral Puzzle Showcase is an annual event on Steam which showcases and celebrates some of the world’s best “thinky games”. This year it makes a triumphant return from May 23rd to May 30th. What is a Thinky Game? Well, it’s a puzzle game, but more specifically it could be any sort of game that really makes you think, as you play it. In 2022, we did a highlight of some of our favourite games to watch out at the showcase: 8 DEMOS & NEW RELEASES to play for free th ..read more

Crux Club’s Dark Tours Review | As a Dark Tourist, you seek places others fear to tread. As you play through this puzzle adventure book, you’ll visit the world’s strangest cemeteries. Solve the haunting mysteries surrounding each location to discover hidden knowledge. Dark Mysteries will challenge you to delve ever deeper into the darkness. Cast off fear and begin your journey into the unknown. Date Played: January 2024 Time Taken: ~4 Hours Number of Players: 1 Difficulty: Variably Easy-Medium Whilst my main, and perhaps only criticism of Crux Club’s previous puzzle book was that the theme of ..read more

Project Iceman Review: Having learnt from past mistakes and with the aim of creating a utopian society, governments and corporations worldwide have now successfully ended the use of fossil fuels and abolished weapons of war. MEGAMEAT, the world’s largest corporation has found an innovative solution to end world hunger…or so we thought! Bio-engineered to have no fart gland and producing zero emissions, the Woolly Mammoth IS BACK!!! Date Played: October 2023 Team Size: 4 Time Taken: ~50 minutes Difficulty: Medium On the same trip we travelled as a team to play some rooms in Halifax, we also made ..read more