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Lee Ballan

I'm an escape room writer from Israel, with nearly 500 rooms under my belt (the "nearly" part will be fixed in a couple of weeks). Currently spending all of my free time writing reviews of the games played in the Spain tour, because of fear of Heiner!

The Temple of Fire

THE TEMPLE OF FIRE by El templo de fuego in Sodupe, Spain

If the name “El Templo de Fuego” doesn’t get a Eurovision song stuck in your head, we are very different people. But apparently The Temple of Fire wasn’t a shrine for Eleni Foureira (a very niche joke that will make ~2 people giggle), but instead a 75 minute quest, to […]

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The Rebellion – Hybrid Line

The Rebellion by Blindhouse Games in Bilbao

This review goes back to the very first room of this trip (ignoring the 11 that came before it, that Heiner doesn’t consider as relevant since he wasn’t there). Blind House offer three options on their website – the lycanthropes line (75 minute room), the vampire line (75 minute room), […]

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Hellevator

Hellevator by Escapepolis Galatsi in Athens

This may not come as a shock to anyone, given its name, but Hellevator is a small room. Very small extremely small. Essentially, in the size of a fancy elevator. But to be clear, this is not a complaint. Quite the opposite, actually. I was very intrigued about playing this […]

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Ice Tiki

Ice Tiki by Way Out in Athens

If you will ask me what I have done during lockdown, I’d mostly say “watch Netflix”, “bake some bread”, and “play games on the Switch”. If you will ask the owner of Ice Tiki the same question, he’d respond with “got bored, tried to find something to do, decided to […]

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Prometheus

Prometheus by Clock Escape Rooms in Athens

Our goal in the room is very clear – infiltrate a hightech AI, steal its data, and escape. Simple, right? Many Futuristic escape rooms have the same issue – they feel very “cold” and “digital”, and lose some of the magic of escape rooms escaping from the computer to the […]

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Virtual X-Caper

“Ok cool, the Avatar is inputing the code in the keypad, and the keypad is making the usual beeps. …wait, is the Avatar making those beep sounds?” Agent November was captured, as he was searching for the infamous jewel thief, Robyn Yew, who is a part of a large crime […]

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Before Moonrise

A cabin in the woods sounds like quite a calm vacation spot. But that’s not the case when outside of the cabin is a werewolf, and you are not there for a vacation – but in order to survive. In Before Moonrise room, you will need to solve puzzles, and […]

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Ruins: Forbidden Treasure

This weird lockdown has begun roughly 10 months ago. During this 10 months, we didn’t travel, we didn’t play physical escape rooms, and we didn’t even take a flight.Well, that’s not accurate. We did take one flight, and somehow specifically it has crashed in a jungle, next to some mysterious […]

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Galactic Pioneers

Galactic Pioneers by MindMaaze in Prague, Czech Republic

Spaceship ahoy! After playing so many spaceship-themed rooms, they tend to mix one into the other. However, this one stood out to us. While potentially overwhelming at first, the room is packed with great puzzles. There are so many things to do at the same time, and it is up […]

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