Odditorium EmporiumEscapeX Rooms - Costa MesaEscape roomIRLAbsolutely loved this! So much fun, very interactive. Great variety of puzzles, excellent GM.
13th BasementExit Game OC - AnaheimEscape roomIRLVery creative, very fun! Unique puzzles made this a blast!
Whatever Happened To The Garretts?Maze Rooms - West LAEscape roomIRLThis room started a little frustrating for me- part was my groups failure at search and find (which is our own faults) but it went back to back with a puzzle that didn’t work well. We solved it but it didn’t work- the GM had to prompt us to do it again- which to me is failure on the rooms part. But once we moved on it got better with the flow and we ended up enjoying the room overall. I was surprised on the set/ambiance after the first part, it was some fun/neat puzzles to solve. It provided some moments of our group laughing at ourselves and our lack of “skills”. But we did manage to freak solve a puzzle before we even knew what it was- basically that 100 to one “no way anyone would get this without following the directions” moment, which I’m kind of proud of!
Back to ChildhoodClockwise Escape Room - PleasantonEscape roomIRLVery fun room, puzzles not too hard but we had a fun time playing. Everything worked and functioned well. As repeated, the retro nostalgia design was a lot of fun. Our GM was very friendly and adapting to our request on hints (we prefer very small nudges if needed).
The Magic CottageInfinity EscapeEscape roomIRLReally liked the build/props of the room. I would have said this was a beginner/easy level room, yet at the end the GM told us many experienced players don’t escape or need so many hints. The details and storyline made this fun though.
Witchly Ever AfterOmescape - San JoseEscape roomIRLIt was a cute concept, very linear. Wished there was a bit more challenge to some things, one puzzle was too tedious. Overall a very simple but fun room.
WarlockedQuest Room - Redondo BeachEscape roomIRLReally a great set up, high quality sets and a great variety of puzzles. The actor added a fun element did a great job. There are even special puzzles that give things used later which add another level of dimension to the fun. Definitely a room that could be replayed if you skip any of the puzzles. We had one puzzle that didn’t work correctly as we went through but overall it was a lot of fun.
Twenty Ghosts of ChristmasBrain Games Escape RoomEscape roomIRLOverall the room was fun. Bit of a sandbox for puzzles where some could be done simultaneously while others needed teamwork to solve. There was one puzzle that to me needed some outside skill to solve but you can dumb luck/brute force your way eventually through it as our group did. That was frustrating. And there was a “puzzle” that was a bit of a time suck, but can see how in a large group this might be better. Overall though the room was fun and the GM was great. Design/theme of the room was good and it’s fun if you like to solve a bunch of puzzles.
Prison BreakEscape Room 66 - Laguna HillsEscape roomIRLReally enjoyed this room! The puzzles flow well and have fun elements to them. They also have varying degrees of difficulty which I appreciate still running into new ones that challenge me. The owner is very friendly and we had a great chat with her. Room was decorated well for theme and had fun props. Solving the room ends pretty sweet as well!
The StudyTHE BASEMENT: A Live Escape Room Experience - SylmarEscape roomIRLI enjoyed the room, the actor was great. However you lose a lot of time waiting on the actor to finish the hints. Our group would have escaped as we were on the last puzzle but ran out of time. That time lost waiting on hints would have got us out.
