We head down to a local attraction for our second visit to try out their scariest room Edith as we bring you this Unescapable Derby review.
So Unescapable Derby is an escape room experience that we have done once before as me and my partner tried out the Alan escape room.
We completed it fairly easily considering we’re both quite new to escape rooms as a whole but the detail was good, the puzzles were varied but the only niggle was communication between the games master and ourselves.
Given a radio, most of the vocals were distorted and hard to hear over the music playing inside the room so many clues, hints and other conversations are muffled and inaudible.
Labelled as a time-travelling facility we must step into portals (escape rooms) to recover or discover something. Edith was no different, the room synopsis was written as follows:
When we first open a time portal we send one of our scientists back to make sure everything is ok and it is all safe and stable – we sent Edith, but unfortunately she hasn’t returned… We’ve now lost communication with her, but we do know that she was trying to shut the portal down when something stopped her. We need your team to finish the job – we would go ourselves but we’re too scared.
Whilst not spoiling Edith too much I will say there is an actor in this particular room which certainly enhances the scare factor and a crawling element to the room as an introduction is a great addition.
The theming before entering the room is great but when inside I thought the theming was very minimal and quite poor. Much poorer than that of Alan. It felt very basic and quite boring, I didn’t feel immersed in the story and nothing felt particularly themed to any sort of story or location.
At a part during the experience, one member is handcuffed, my partner absolutely freaked out and was genuinely terrified although I didn’t think the room was scary in any way shape or form that’s the joy of Edith.
Some people will naturally be more scared than others and whilst hearing her scream was a joy to my sadistic little ears, others may find Edith a little dull in places.
The puzzles were varied and certainly better than other horror escape rooms we’ve experienced in Burton and Nottingham but the variety was certainly welcomed.
We didn’t need to ask for too many hints but one particular puzzle was impossible to see in the low light conditions. They really need to fix that as it’s just a hindrance.
Puzzles involving magnets were quite clever (if albeit annoying) but the use of the floppy disks to communicate with Edith was quite interesting.
My favourite part was definitely the crawl space introduction to the room which didn’t bode well for the immersion within the room itself when the introduction (nothing to do with the escape room) was leaps and bounds more immersive.
Edith at Unescapable Derby isn’t the best themed, nor the best room we’ve ever done but it’s well worth a try as an entry-level horror escape room experience with many other escape rooms (in this country) much more intense if you really want that horror thrill!
Book your Edith Unescapable Derby experience via the official Unescapable Derby website at https://www.unescapable.co.uk
