About this venue
Escaping Utrecht is one of the city's veterans (open since April 1, 2014), located in the basement of café-restaurant De Branding on Croeselaan near the Jaarbeurs, and now continues under the Escaping x Funhouse banner. There are five rooms with various themes, from the bank heist Let's Rob the Bank! to the Cold War espionage game Project Venona, in which players receive secret messages from the fictitious agent 'Malik' during play — a detail that reviewers experience as genuine human contact. The reviews are polarised (7.1 on escapetalk out of 62 reviews): fans praise the team fun, price-quality ratio and better storylines, while critics mention dated décor, illogical puzzle steps and inconsistent gamemasters. A solid, affordable choice for groups, less so for seasoned enthusiasts.
Review scores
Rooms
- Let's Rob the Bank!Klassieke bankkraak: inbreken, kluis kraken en wegwezen
- Project VenonaKoude Oorlog-spionage naar het echte VENONA-programma, met geheime berichten van agent 'Malik'
- The Stolen CeresMiddeleeuws getint avontuur rond een gestolen godinnenbeeld, zoek-zwaar
- Patient XMedische sci-fi: onderzoek een misgelopen farmaceutisch experiment
- Prof. Kepler & the MachineMysterieuze uitvinding van een professor, familievriendelijk (12+)
What visitors say
- Good value for money and enjoyable team experience, central to the Jaarbeurs
- In-game correspondence with agent 'Malik' (Project Venona) feels like genuine human contact
- Story and puzzles align well in the better rooms (The Stolen Ceres)
- Dated décor and sometimes illogical puzzle steps ('the path there was not logical')
- Inconsistent gamemasters — from enthusiastic to inattentive
Videos
From the reviews
De puzzels zijn echt briljant! De hele entourage zorgt ervoor dat je meegesleept wordt in het verhaal.— escapetalk
Absoluut niet aan te raden. Beleving was totaal niet aanwezig. Goedkoop in elkaar gezet.— escapetalk
Really nice place. The games are interesting and you also have a comedian that tells you the storyline.— Google
The staff were superfriendly and accommodating. We played Rob the bank with a group of 10-year olds.— Google