Escape Live Birmingham

Fun experience doing Jack the Ripper escape room! Rob was our host and explained everything well at the start and made us feel welcomed. He had to accommodate more of us at the last minute too which wasn’t a problem.

Did the Peaky blinders escape room with a group of 6. It was fun and a good time, however I feel there weren’t as many individual puzzles for different group members and with a group of 6 a few of us weren’t as involved I think the room would be better suited for 2-4 people.The games master Rob was lovely.At the end of the experience they ask you to leave a positive review for a reward so bear it in mind when looking at previous ones!

Great fun in Dr Watson's Office for my daughter's 12th birthday with her friends. Sena was a fantastic host and helped us just the right amount when needed, and we got out just in the nick of time. My son wasn't as happy about the screams from Room 13 next door tho!

We did the Casino room hosted by Rob and Mark and had the best time! It’s a challenge but not too difficult so you can still enjoy yourself at the same time. 10/10 would recommend!

EDIT: After the response received below from Luke I sent two separate emails to which I have received no reply. One was sent on the 26/11/24 and another sent on 01/12/24. The second email was sent as I saw the email he had gave me to contact him on was different to ones provided in other replies and I was unsure which was the correct one. So 10 days with no response, which is very disappointing.Slightly disappointed with our experience at this escape room. Our group has attended a few escape rooms before and were excited to try this one on our trip to Birmingham. We booked the Jack the Ripper escape room and while some aspects of our experience were good, others left a bit to be desired.Overall, the venue is really nice and the bar area is nice as well. The staff were friendly enough and the concept of the room we booked seemed really interesting.When we arrived, we were given our debrief where we were told the room would be in complete darkness the whole time (apart from some lanterns that would be given to us) and we were also told the room would contain a few jump scares. This was not mentioned anywhere when we were booking the room and is something I feel customers should know before booking the room as it would’ve put me off if I had of known in advance.When we entered the room, we were only given two lanterns between the four of us which made it incredibly difficult to look around for clues as we had to pair up so we could see what was around us. It also made it hard to see certain things around the room that you needed to see to get the answers to certain puzzles as vision was very limited.Some of the clues in the room felt a bit random or slightly disconnected (can’t mention as I don’t want to spoil it) but it felt like some things were added without really making much sense or being thought through and were just a means to an end.We felt like a good chunk of the time we were stuck on where we should be looking or what we should be looking for which meant we wasted a lot of time. We felt we were left waiting too long without any guidance and when we asked for clues we were basically just told the answer which was very anticlimactic as most other escape rooms will give you a cryptic clue and not just outright tell you the answers.The room did indeed have some jump scares and this did make me uncomfortable as I wasn’t prepared for this and don’t enjoy this sort of thing. There wasn’t loads but enough that I felt a bit unsettled.Overall, while the concept of the room was great I think it was lacking slightly and sadly I don’t think we would return here.