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…

As you can probably imagine, our Game Operators see a lot of weird and wonderful things happen when running games for our lovely customers (some stories a lot weirder than others!). This blog will feature stories across our Breakout Cardiff, Breakout Liverpool, Breakout Manchester and Breakout Chestersites, and will provide you with some insider information as to what really goes on in our rooms behind closed doors. We will start with the most 2017 that happened to us: “The year of Facebook Live” story. As Game Operator Shannon was congratulating her group on escaping, one of the customers pulled out her iPhone and went live…

Stuck on a gift to buy for your nearest and dearest? The shops are all out of Lynx Africa and Yankee candles. don't know what to get for your secret Santa at work? Have no fear, Karen in Accounts, Christmas is saved. Breakout has Gift vouchers on sale right now! Did you know that you can have your Christmas party at Breakout Manchester? With sixteen rooms in total across our two sites, we can accommodate up to 80 people at a time! So whether you're getting the family together, reuniting with old friends, or looking for something a bit different…

Breakout Manchester has been joined at our Northern Quarter location by our sister company, Virtual Hideout.  As a result, you can now experience two of Manchester's best activity experiences under the same roof, right at the heart of Manchester's NQ - what more could you want?  To celebrate this, we're offering you the chance to have a go at both activities together and SAVE this January.  Make a saving of up to £5 per player when you book to play both an escape room and a virtual reality session on the same day!  Just give us a call on 0161 839 8012 and a…

What a bizarre year so far... The world as we know it seems completed changed after coming to a standstill for months. Nobody could have seen this coming, but as restrictions are lifted and we can finally begin to experience something like normality again, it’s a chance to do all the things you missed most.Believe it or not, the perfect antidote for months of lockdown life could be…escape rooms!  It might seem strange, to voluntarily lock yourself in a room just as we’re finally allowed to leave our homes, but escape rooms are actually perfect for slowly getting back into…

With the next edition of Breakout Unboxed about to launch, we thought we’d share with you a review of our first game, written by one of our Game Operators - Tom from Liverpool!  - When I first opened our Unboxed game ‘Locked up in Lapland’, I had absolutely no idea what to expect. Would it capture the excitement of a real life escape game? Would the puzzles be too hard? Would it definitely get me in the Christmas spirit?! I had many questions that I’m sure anyone who’s considering playing the game will have too, so here I will review…