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Martyaustx

    Marty | Morty Team Volunteer | Austin TX

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    2002: L'Odyssée Bovine [2002: A Bovine Odyssey]

    2002: L'Odyssée Bovine [2002: A Bovine Odyssey]

    Cabinet Mysteriis

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    We had a great time playing this laugh out loud funny game! You are a farmer in a spaceship that you built from a grain silo, trying to retrieve your prize cow from the aliens who abducted her. This game has a clever set, great puzzles, and a terrifically weird story!
    Amazing Adventure Society: The Forgotten Room

    Amazing Adventure Society: The Forgotten Room

    The Other Tales Escape Rooms

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    Fun exploration of an adventure society’s artifacts to solve a mystery. Average room with average difficulty. Enjoyed the puzzles. While the GM wasn’t that experienced, he was super friendly and really seemed to enjoy being part of the experience.
    Whatever Happened To The Garretts?

    Whatever Happened To The Garretts?

    Maze Rooms - West LA

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    Apart in Time: A Whispering Halls Adventure

    Apart in Time: A Whispering Halls Adventure

    Enchambered Live Escape Room Adventure - Online

    • Escape room
    • Virtual
    This is a really cool 2-player online game. Each player only sees their part of the game so communication and well-coordinated interaction are key. The graphics and mechanics of play are high quality. This is part of a series of excellent games from Enchambered, but all can be played independently.
    Area 53

    Area 53

    Bust Out Escape Room - Paseo

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    Bust Out consistently does a good job with immersive sets and Area 53 is one of their best. There were a couple of interesting original features In this room I haven’t seen in the 400+ games I’ve played, including plenty of space-themed ones. You are in a station on the moon and your team of scientists has to figure out what went wrong with the genetic experiments before it’s too late. I don’t want to spoil the fun, but there are challenges to overcome and info to analyze. I liked the integration of both tactile and logic puzzles. We progressed through the room in a somewhat linear fashion as the story moved us along, which in this room worked really well. I recommend playing this game as well as Jumanji and Doomsday Bunker at Bust Out.
    Arizona Shootout

    Arizona Shootout

    Escapology - Austin

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    Escapology games suffer from being consistently mediocre. The scenery for a western setting was minimal. The puzzles loosely tie to the theme but are poorly designed. Red herrings in the room seem to be more like orphan props from puzzles that were abandoned from the game long ago. The room is very lock heavy, but the locks aren’t coordinated to the game. For example why have color-coded locks if irrelevant to the puzzle? (Not a spoiler.) I’ve played several games at this venue and other Escapology locations and just wonder why such a large chain can’t up their game. Disappointing.
    Boardwalk Blast

    Boardwalk Blast

    Escape Garden State

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    Fun room but only had minimal Boardwalk themed activity. More arcade themed. Some original ideas to their puzzles but otherwise a standard escape room with easy puzzling. Kid and beginner friendly, very good for a birthday party. Recommend for sentimental reasons because I always want to be down the shore. Play this game, and tell them you found it in Morty!
    Carbon: 3708

    Carbon: 3708

    Mission Escape Games

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    We played Carbon 3708 after End of Days and found them to be very similar: combination of mechanical and technical puzzles with minimal story. While one member of our team found the set boring, I felt it matched the dystopian theme. Carbon was more tech-driven than End of Days. If you are limited for time and have to choose between the two, I liked Carbon better.
    Christmas Story [VR]

    Christmas Story [VR]

    Virtropolis VR

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    VR for the holidays! Very cute game appropriate for all ages with really fun surprises. First time trying VR at a business versus the PlayStation VR at home. It was fun playing with another player in the virtual world, and this game can handle multiple players. The owners were very personable hosts. I look forward to trying other VR games at Vitropolis.
    Club Drosselmeyer 1944

    Club Drosselmeyer 1944

    Green Door Labs

    • Escape room
    • Virtual
    Unusual and fun phone-based interactive radio show. This is an online version of popular Boston-based immersive theater game event, now in its 6th year and 2nd time remote. I imagine this would be really great in person, dressed up in 1940’s costumes and having drinks in a ballroom while solving riddles. Otherwise, it was a very simple game to play.
    Dracula's Castle

    Dracula's Castle

    Escape Room Extreme

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    Dracula’s Castle is an average escape room with some nice atmospheric touches. Gameplay is mostly linear with standard puzzles. Decor fit the theme, but there were some distracting issues like exposed wires that diminished the scenery. We enjoyed playing the game. The adjacent Par Pub looks like fun, but we didn’t have time to play there.