Every escape room will have its own theme, which will inform room layouts, puzzles, decorations, and more. The fun of escape rooms comes not just from the devious puzzles your group will need to solve, but from being immersed in the world and story of the room. Enigma Quests runs three brilliant escape rooms in Shoreditch, transporting players to worlds of magic, espionage, and high-stakes crime.
The Importance of Escape Room Themes
Escape rooms have built a dedicated fandom across the world in recent years, with many players travelling across the UK to experience the different rooms on offer. Each room will be unique, in puzzles, layout, and themes. While the fundamentals of escape room games, such as interconnected puzzles, a gamemaster, and a 60-minute time limit, tend to remain the same, the sheer wealth of themes can provide dramatically different experiences.
Whether trapped in a haunted mansion, racing against time to solve a murder, or trying to rob a precious jewel, you’ll be immersed in a meticulously detailed environment that transports you and your team into the world of the game.
What Are the Most Popular Escape Room Themes?
While you’ll find a huge amount of variety across the industry, there are several common themes in the UK. When looking for good themes for an escape room, most choose ideas that are appealing to audiences and that will work well within a confined space. Here are some of the common themes you’ll see:
- Murder Mystery: Readers have been thrilled by the locked room mysteries of writers like Agatha Christie for over a century, and they offer the perfect theme for an escape room. Placing teams within a small space filled with clues, suspects, and secrets can make for a truly immersive experience.
- Prison Break: Escape rooms grew from popular “Escape the room” games online, and a prison break offers the perfect story to build around that theme, tasking players with escaping to freedom in just an hour. Conjuring films like Shawshank Redemption and Papillon, the prison break is an iconic story for many.
- Heists: Tasking players with stealing an item within their time limit, the heist is a fantastic theme for an escape room, which is why we designed our Million Pound Heist room, building off our love of films like the Oceans series.
Our 3 Immersive Escape Room Themes
We operate 3 fantastic escape rooms from our Holborn location, each of which is themed around some of our favourite stories and genres.
World of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Our first escape room transports players into the realm of magic, where they must prove their wizarding skills to solve a mysterious disappearance. A genuinely magical experience, this is a great choice for lovers of all things fantasy.
Inventor’s Odyssey Through Time
This room sends your team back and forth through time, all within the laboratory of an eccentric inventor. It’s a race against time to protect the secrets of time travel from falling into the wrong hands. This is a thrilling new story for fans of Back to the Future and Knives Out.
The Billion Pound Heist
This room is designed for lovers of heist movies, tasking teams with infiltrating the underground vault of a feared London gang, The Quartet. Hidden beneath an upscale art gallery, it’s up to you to recover the compromising documents hidden within. Just try not to get distracted by the priceless riches!
Book Your Escape Experience Today
Enigma Quests is based in Holborn, Central London, a short walk from local underground and rail stations, making it easy to access for both Londoners and those visiting the city. We run sessions 7 days a week, with daytime and evening slots available. Throughout, you’ll be guided by one of our questmasters over the radio, who’ll be able to give you pointers when needed, ensuring that teams at every skill level can have a great experience. Games are offered for teams of 2 to 5, though we accept teams of 6 upon request.
Our games offer fantastic puzzle design, engaging stories, and meticulously detailed rooms to explore. Book your next escape room experience through our site today.
