Buried AliveIntense Escape - Tampa LocationEscape roomIRLREALLY freaky and simple too! Execution was great and it’s a really different experience! Pulse pounding if you’re claustrophobic!
Budapest ExpressEscapology - LakelandEscape roomIRLPretty cool, especially when you consider how many other businesses have done a variation of this same theme. Saw a few things that were different in this one from the others so points for that :)
InheritanceMission ManorEscape roomIRLFun! Very good experience for beginners all around, but still fun for decently seasoned players. Worth checking out!
Skin DeepCheck Mate - Land O' LakesEscape roomIRLIcky. Big miss with this one. Great concept, but just ends up being yucky and mean spirited. Other reviews have shared this sentiment it seems. You could tell employees working our room that day really put their heart into it. But my group and I didn’t have the heart to tell the GM we hated it so I guess this is my telltale heart moment here. I hope the creators are reading these because you gotta really overhaul this room’s story, fast. It’s so ghastly and just uncalled for how it progresses. I’m pretty sure there were real images of autopsies too 🤮 Some other reviews mentioned dehumanizing and misogynistic aspects and thinking about it in retrospect, I’d have to agree. It just feels like someone’s got hangups about women and stuff (I’m a guy picking up on this even).
US Highway 19 MotelHudson Escape RoomsEscape roomIRLIt’s okay. Functional but not exceptional. I really really liked the theme a lot and wish it had been pushed further but I guess it’s a budgetary constraint. Not a bad way to spend an afternoon so there’s that at least.
Coffee CartelLakeland Escape RoomEscape roomIRLSuper out of date. Didn’t know if I was supposed to be enjoying anything honestly! Nothing really made sense either. Feels like this was built a decade ago or more.
ProhibitionLakeland Escape RoomEscape roomIRLThis company really needs to work on “upping their game” from a polish standpoint (mechanics and set design) to the puzzles. The freaking beeping noise or whatever it was was SO annoying. It’s some kind of trigger that keeps going until certain puzzles were solved. I’ve never experienced anything as weird and irritating as that in an escape room before
