The Alchemist Lair

The Alchemist Lair

Very positive (38 ratings)

  • Escape room
  • IRL

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Stuck aboard with disease sweeping through your ship. The only hope of survival is access to the cure-all your onship Alchemist was famous for. However, he’s gone missing and taken it with him. You're desperate enough to break into his stores and try and make your own. But Alchemists are an untrusting sort, as likely to poison as to cure, and they hide their recipes behind puzzles and traps to protect their secrets. Are you up to the challenge? Time's running out…save yourself if you dare.

  • 2-6
  • 60 mins
  • Hard
  • Not scary

Ratings

All ratings (38)

Very positive

Gameplay
Very positive
Atmosphere
Very positive
Customer service
Very positive

Reviews

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Physcalmst29

15 escape rooms

Room is immersive and fun. Enjoy the puzzles. Can be a little dark at times so just keep in mind. Great for all.

Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Was anything broken?

No

Jul 20, 2025
@Toughcookie680
Toughcookie680

44 escape rooms

This was a really cool room. I felt like I was in a wooden ship & the puzzles were varied, on theme and satisfying. Unfortunately, we ran out of time in the end. I think the game master should have given us more time because the venue was empty and we were so close to completing it. I appreciated the second room with the potions.

Gameplay
Atmosphere
May 3, 2025 | Experienced May 26, 2025
@DarkLord05
DarkLord05

20 escape rooms

Overall loved this game! However one puzzle required quite a bit of force all members of the party where scared of breaking it or hurting ourselves - after we wasted about 7mins, the game master had to come in and show us how to do it. Was a bit thrown off as you usually don’t need force to open things. During our introduction they explained 7 different types of locks we had to remember how to activate / unlock. This game is definitely worth your time and the staff were all lovely!

Gameplay
Atmosphere

The set design was bang on!

Customer service

I was here on holiday with my family, but had booked the wrong date (being a month away) we showed up and of course they couldn’t find our booking, after explaining we were heading back home the next day where lovely enough to open the game just for us <3

Scary

Spooky

Dec 28, 2023 | Experienced Feb 28, 2023

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msilcox

97 escape rooms

Very frustrating experience. We got stuck on one puzzle for over 20 minutes, and the GM didn’t give us any hints that provided information we didn’t already know. We also were told that letter locks would make a word, which turned out not to be true. When you have 2 experienced players who struggle that much with a puzzle, even though they understand exactly how it’s supposed to work, the problem is the puzzle, not the players.

Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Particularly interesting or different

No

Story
Difficulty

Hard

Game tech

Mechanical

Ideal number of players

3

Scary

Not scary

Minimum age

12

Was anything broken?

No

Live actors

No

Physically active

Somewhat

Accessibility

Needed to be able to get down on the ground

Easy to find location

Yes

Parking

Limited

Jul 29, 2023 | Experienced Jul 29, 2023

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