Gold RushThe Escape Game - New YorkEscape roomIRLThis room was totally amazing! I can see why we've been told it's a staple at many locations of this company!!! The theming was really well done, I appreciated the fact that it was a multi-level room where you go up and down. It really felt like we were moving from scenario to scenario as opposed to just going from one closet to another. I thought that there were a lot of really unique puzzles, some that require more interaction than you normally get in rooms corporate locations. This is a big plus for anybody who has played more than a couple of games anywhere and is looking for something slightly more challenging. I know that it's touted as a lower difficulty level, but I'd argue that it was more challenging than several of the other games we've played at The Escape Game. Or at least the puzzles were better, so it felt more difficult than games that reuse the same sort of puzzles over and over. 10/10 would recommend!!!
Only Murders in the Building The Escape Game - New YorkEscape roomIRLThis room was not a favorite of ours. 😞 I think it may have hit better for us if we were fans of the television show, or if we hadn't played The Heist at another location prior to playing this game. This isn't a very large escape room, the last room is more for show than anything really purposeful. So it makes the room feel shorter. Having played The Heist before in New Orleans, unfortunately, it was very easy to tell that all of the games and the room itself, including props, had been retooled to make this game. It felt more like a layover on top of a prior game as opposed to a unique game. It feels like the only thing that really changed were the context of the puzzles. This room really is way too small for a group of more than four players. There were six of us in the room, two of us from one group, four in another group. We worked well together, but it felt like we were tripping over each other the whole time.
