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Neighborhood Watcher

Neighborhood Watcher

The Escape Ventures - Orlando

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  • IRL
Everything you’ve read is true, it’s one of the best escape rooms in the country, a must for any serious escapist. Unfortunately we had difficulty as a bottleneck button broke, forcing us to pause the game. Then, a flashlight went out, twice. Then we ran into a design that removed, which then changed the intuitive lines of a solution and burned time. Despite all of that, we had the best Game Master we’ve ever met, Elle, and she played a character and interacted in a way that completely kept us immersed despite these pauses/delays. My lord, if you just don’t overthink it, this might be the best flow I’ve ever experienced in a room that kept the creepiness cranked to 9 and the theme deeply disturbing that I’m still thinking about it hours afterward.
Operation Arctic Storm: The Final Meltdown

Operation Arctic Storm: The Final Meltdown

The Escape Ventures - Orlando

  • Escape room
  • IRL
Arctic may be one of the most immersive experiences I’ve ever completed in an escape room. We completed it with 2 people, but 3-4 would be an ideal number as there is a lot to do and tasks can be split up, especially in the last two areas. We had 2 and we are an experienced team and completed it in time with only a few nudges. Everything was themed amazing and the mechanical reveals were absolutely incredible. Escapee Ventures does an amazing job of interacting in vital clue roles, and Arctic is no exception. We’ve done all 5 at the Orlando location and Arctic is another can’t miss room.
Crazy Train: The Ballad of Skeemin' Plotz

Crazy Train: The Ballad of Skeemin' Plotz

Doldrick's Escape Room

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  • IRL

𓆜𓋘𓄁 𓊛𓇙𓋸𓌤𓌥 𓌦 𓅐𓆢 𓆣 𓀉𓆤 𓆥 𓅑𓆘 𓆙 𓅒𓄙 𓄚 𓄛 𓅓𓃺 𓃻 𓅔 𓅕 𓃕 𓃖 𓃗 𓎷 𓄁𓎸𓅖 𓅽 𓅾 𓅿𓅗 𓅘 𓇆 𓇇𓅙 𓅚 𓁵 𓁶𓂵 𓂶𓃝𓋲 𓋳𓀬 𓅛𓁃 𓂺𓅜 �𓅝𓃄 �𓄁𓅞𓂙 𓅟𓂿 𓆜𓋘𓄁 𓊛𓇙𓋸𓌤𓌥 𓌦 𓅐𓆢 𓆣 𓀉𓆤 𓆥 𓅑𓆘 𓆙 𓅒𓄙 𓄚 𓄛 𓅓𓃺 𓃻 𓅔 𓅕 𓃕 𓃖 𓃗 𓎷 𓄁𓎸𓅖 𓅽 𓅾 𓅿𓅗 𓅘 𓇆 𓇇𓅙 𓅚 𓁵 𓁶𓂵 𓂶𓃝𓋲 𓋳𓀬 𓅛𓁃 𓂺𓅜 𓂨𓅝𓃄 𓄁𓅞𓂙 𓅟𓂿

Captain Spoopy Bones and the Magnificent Quest For Some Other Pirate's Treasure!

Captain Spoopy Bones and the Magnificent Quest For Some Other Pirate's Treasure!

Doldrick's Escape Room

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  • IRL
Negatives: it’s marketed as an award winning “comedy room” - there’s no comedy. It’s cute, but it’s a challenging pirate theme. We had a few lock issues, but the staff added time back, and they were kind and courteous with our clues. The room shouldn’t be taken lightly. It’s very challenging and has an extended split-team sequence that if you can’t break free from, could burn up time you’ll definitely need later. There are many puzzles and challenges that 2 experienced escapist can do but 4 would be best. It’s all about communication and teamwork and trust with the extended team split. We solved it with help a little over the time limit.
Outage: No Vacancy

Outage: No Vacancy

The Escape Ventures - Orlando

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  • IRL
Game Master makes or breaks this room. One of a kind room, very rare, but not particular interesting theme or difficult once you get going, without the gimmick of lights out, it’s a boring theme. If they upped the creepy factor past dirty wall paper and a few creepy crawlers, this could be a special room experience and even more immersive. Elle our GM stayed in character throughout and just gave us subtle nudges. She made the room experience worth talking about. Without her, this was just another room on the belt.
Prison Break

Prison Break

The Escape Game - Orlando

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  • IRL
First, it was an amazing immersive experience. It truly felt like real cells and real rooms until the common Escape Game fuck up in the last room with multiple same # of digit solution locks. This was soooo good until the last room. Then it fell into this trap and ruined the experience. It also suffered from the too subtle issue on the bookcase. Escape Game and their bookcases…. Be warned. But the first two cells was incredible. Felt like Clint Eastwood in Escape from Alcatraz. Was absolutely exciting and a great teamwork room. Highly recommend.
Dragon Challenge: A Hero's Choice [prev. The Quest]

Dragon Challenge: A Hero's Choice [prev. The Quest]

The Escape Ventures - Winter Garden [prev. Escape Goat]

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  • IRL
Here’s my humble opinion of what separates good from great to incredible escape rooms: FLOW. Good ones are thematic and challenging. Great ones are intuitive from A to B to C with blending into the theme. Incredible rooms put you in the EXACT plotline and order the room wants you to go, enhancing the plot, which nudgestt you in the right solution direction without needing a clue. This falls between good and great. All the puzzles were thematic and difficult, all the mechanisms and tech were seamless, but it wasn’t clear where to begin or go next. Each of the 4 orbs seemingly were isolated from each other (probably for groups to work separately) but it wasn’t clear what order you needed to solve the leftover lockboxes and mech. The last orb box order wasn’t intuitive, until the game master gave clues, which was frustrating to need that so close to the end because there were three areas where design impeded the escapist and burned unnecessary time. The artifact map, the fire box and the swords. I’d HIGHLY recommend this room for novice groups of 2-4, but a solo player has to be very fast, very experienced and guess-right-the-first-time-lucky to finish the room in time. While that seems negative, the props, plot, design, character, theme, and mech were incredible. I’d play it again with first timers. Loved it.
The Satirical Miracle: A Jolly Tale Of Granny's Blackmail

The Satirical Miracle: A Jolly Tale Of Granny's Blackmail

The Escape Ventures - Orlando

  • Escape room
  • IRL
The Escape Ventures rooms truly are magical experiences. The staff is committed and always have roles in their rooms to interact and give clues/keys. It adds to the experience and the creativity of the actor clue in Granny’s was perfectly done and themed, and the actress was hilarious. This is an all age room, and a parent with a first timer would be successful. You don’t need more than 2 experienced escapists to complete this room, but 3 or 4 would also be fine. We had one mech issue, but the game master quickly radioed in and corrected the issue and gameplay quickly resumed. The theme was fantastic and carried through the entire room. We were told the Port Charlotte location has a few different rooms and we are making the trek soon as we love this company so much.
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