The first orange leaves have fallen from the trees, which means Halloween is just around the corner. Get your pumpkins carved and your faces painted, because Breakout are celebrating in style this year! With the opening of our newest room Disturbed, it's the perfect time to book in to play a scary room in time for fright night. If trick-or-treating isn't your thing, or if you prefer to stay indoors on a cold October evening then Breakout is perfect for you! Our Manchester High Street site has four spooky games to choose from; Vacancy, the murderous motel Crimson Lake sees…

Amongst the Orange is the New Black cast, Lucifer stars and The Walking Dead crew, if you're lucky enough, you might spot our very own Breakout staff at this week's MCM London Comic Con! Congregating from Cardiff, Liverpool and Manchester, our Breakout managers from these sites will be manning our very own stall at the Comic Con event. Following our subsequent success at Birmingham Comic Con, we will be utilising three 'pop-up' games, all of which will last 30 minutes (differing slightly from our standard 1-hour escape room games). A brief overview of the games can be displayed below: Vigilante Story: Your friend has been acting…

1. First things first, what inspired you to start Breakout? The reason I started Breakout is that I have always had an affinity for puzzle. My favourite TV program growing up was the crystal maze and I have always loved the puzzle element of computer games such as the dungeons in Zelda. I walked past the first escape room that opened in the UK, London in 2013 and before I'd even played it I'd already come up with a plan on how I was going to bring the concept to Manchester.  From a personal side, prior to opening Breakout I worked in the night-time…

As some of you may know we have recently opened the doors to our brand new site - Newton Street - which is currently the home of six exciting escape rooms located just a 5 minute walk from our other Church Street site! Our Newton Street building is a 7000 Square foot space bringing you three completely brand new escape rooms and three which have been carried over from our now closed High Street site. The new rooms we have available here are Frankenstein, Unsolved and Crimson Lake Motel and the three rooms which have been carried over and improved are Enchanted, Forsaken and Immortal. Throughout the year we plan to bring in even more rooms to Newton Street, some which are opening very…

Share the love this Valentine's Day with an escape room as your chosen date destination!   We at Breakout believe that an escape room is the perfect place to spend quality time with your significant other. Being locked in a themed room for an hour solving puzzles and cracking codes is the best way to find out if a second date is on the cards ;)   Breakout escape rooms are a great choice of activity for couples this Valentine's Day because you can combine your teamwork skills to successfully break out! We can guarantee that your relationship will be…

Hello Breakout fans! As some of you may be aware our new sister company, Challenge Point, hasopened its doors at our Newton Street site. Have you ever wanted the opportunity to take on yourfavourite game show? Perhaps you’ve even applied and had no luck? Now is your chance! A mash-up of the game show formula, teams of 2-6 will play 5 unique minigames and vie for pollposition on our leaderboards. There’s also the chance to play an extra game, known as The Point, forour high scoring teams! Typically lasting 60-90 minutes, Challenge Point is suitable for all! Test your communication…