Cannibal

Our group has played a few rooms at this venue. While we understand that low light contributes to ambience and immersion, it becomes problematic when some degree of light is needed to locate items in the room to solve a puzzle. This could be solved with torches if they want to maintain the look and feel. At one point we ended up in the second space and were there for a few minutes in the dark before our GM intervened to reset because we weren’t meant to be there yet (he said we triggered the emergency button, we didn’t think we had but okay) Our biggest issue was that there was a point where a writing implement was meant to be discovered to solve the next puzzle. We knew the method but discounted it because of the absence of a writing implement. When we asked the GM at the end, he searched the place it was meant to be, confirmed it wasn’t there, said “sorry” and moved on. We weren’t offered anything beyond that- surely in a situation where the room is not completely set up there would be a system of refund/credit/voucher/recompense. We love escape rooms and this one is local to us, but we are second guessing patronage based on this

As a fan of Silence of the Lambs this is an incredible room! The puzzles require some extra thinking at parts but still flowed very well overall. Loved the rooms audio voiceovers and phrasing. As my second room completed from Escape This the designs for immersion and scares are top tier. Andrew was great at giving us a nudge when needed!

Having played some of the other rooms at escape this, I've realised a lot of them are very hit or miss. Thankfully, cannibal steers away from this. Puzzles in the room actually make sense compared to other rooms and a lot of things are marked very clearly to show where to input answers and the puzzles flow nicely from one to the next. This room does have some scares in it and a small narrative that is quite easy to follow along. The room is also nicely decorated making players feel like they are trapped in a cannibal's house. The audio can be tuned down a little bit as they were a bit loud at times. Definitely one of the better rooms at escape this.

Totally immersive room, it really carried you along with the story. Plenty of jump scares to keep you on your toes!

4/10

This is definitely a spoopy room, not sure why the tag here on Morty says it’s not scary. If you’re easily frightened, like me, bring some brave friends to do this room!