Mystery StoreINBLACK Escape Room - Eaton CenterEscape roomIRLFirst, the story premise is that you were about to take your life since it was so miserable, but got an invite to this mystery shop. It says do on website. BUT I was not ready for just how much it referenced suicide in the room. It was like every 10 minutes audio clues or prop text reminding of this. Not cool to be honest The room was clearly designed in Chinese at first, so there are a lot of sloppy translation mistakes on written and audio clues A lot of props were broken, and the GM told us after that the room is not frequently booked, so they don’t teat it often. It really shows. Since a lot of clues is you finding a set of objects and then placing them on right spots to trigger next set of clues, tech issues were especially noticeable. Any time we placed anything correctly, it took 10-15 seconds to trigger the lock ls, so multiple times we did the right thing, but since nothing happened, we moved to a different strategy, just to get stuck, ask for a clue, and find out first thing we did was right, but we just needed to wait longer… A few electric / digital props were broken & just didn’t trigger, so we spent like 15-20 minutes trying everything until GM just had to manually trigger next clue. All in all, a very lackluster experience, and made me very unlikely to come back for any inblack rooms, especially considering it’s like $50-60 per person
