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The Escape Game Houston - The Galleria

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The latest addition from Escape Game sets the bar time and time again for how sets should be designed. They are clean, modern, nothing ever broken, and the theatrical value and production quality and integration with technology such as touch screens and special effects is worth a visit from another state for an enthusiast. Without giving this one away some of the puzzles were so clever I still think about them. They really are best in class at least in Houston.

Outlaw

Escape Again Rooms

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Honestly never have a bad experience at Escape Again. The Wizard is AMAZING. This one was our second one to try. It had a beautifully designed set, clever puzzles, and wasn’t too hard just required you to really look around the room. Puzzles in great shape, maintenance is good at this company. A lot of set-based puzzles too, which are a usual style with this company, where you interact with the set itself, rather than some that are sheet of paper with code, open box with code, repeat. It’s neat, it’s unique, makes it a great experience altogether

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Novel Escape

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IRL

We do a lot of escape rooms spanning from low budget to high budget while this isn’t a high budget set like some of the national chains, the puzzles more than made up for it. They were clever and made in such a way that everything you needed was always in within reach if you pay attention. There also weren’t a lot of wasted props, everything you see pretty much gets used which makes it feel nice to have it all come together. Puzzles were linear enough to flow well, but not too linear that it’s boring. The theme also was on point. Other low budget sets are that way because they are just not designed well and the company never takes off, this company however is just new, and definitely going places so I look forward to seeing what they do with their next few rooms coming out soon

Dead Man's Cove

Escape Hour Austin

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Escape House Austin continues to deliver. A great fun pirate themed room with some unique puzzles I’ve never seen before. A good mix of tech and mechanical triggers. There are a lot of obvious things that are easy to overlook which make it fun. No spoilers, but make sure to look EVERYWHERE on this ship for clues. Sweeping the room again a few times we always found something we overlooked.

Smugglers Den

Escape My Room

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WILL NOT RETURN. Stabbed by a random screw on the floor while crawling around in the dark. Customer service afterward was pretty bad. Pitch dark room meant to require you to feel around in the dark to solve puzzles, but my hand was punctured by a screw randomly lying on the floor. It wasn’t too bad but skin was slightly punctured. This wasn’t a big deal although I sort of lost my trust of continuing to crawl around on the floor, I would have overlooked it but the customer service afterward and attitude toward us was just not right. After the incident I alerted the GM just to let them know. They forced us to exit mid-game, even though we said not to and we were fine, they then opened up the door, spoiling the room puzzles to us by illuminating everything, which in this kind of room the puzzle is the darkness. And then as the whole ordeal took probably 5-10 minutes of distraction, talking, her walking up and then us getting back into the game, and then me being cautious and extra slow the rest of the time. In a 45 min room that’s a big loss of time. She offered us TWO minutes additional time. But we said “we’re almost done, can we just have five more minutes to finish” to which she argued rudely with us about a dozen reasons to say no, and refused to give us any more time, we were offered no refund, and instead were invited to play more games later without being offered a discount. Nothing accommodating at all. Here’s the math though. Game time is 45 min, they book every 90 minutes and had three staffed employees meaning that there was one employee per game, meaning they were fully staffed… however the employee argued that they “had other games after us” but there is a 45 minute reset time, so we bumped into *nobody* and excuses ranged from they didn’t “have the staff to accommodate such a request or more game time” and they needed to “help each orher” we were simply not allowed to finish. It was 5 minutes we wanted. We collected 80 of the items to “solve” it. Least they could do. We didn’t even demand a refund. Just wanted to have fun after all we flew here *for* this puzzle on a recommendation from a blogger. But in a weird turn of events despite the supposed game time limitation we couldn’t get five minutes this girl Heidi offered to us “want to see what the room looked like in the light to see what you missed” and then we spent 5 minutes LOOKING AROUND WITH HER *FACEPALM* when we could have completed the room in that same time. On the same topic five minutes was spent arguing with us about not giving us five minutes, and then after many minutes getting us to pose on the couch with signs for the obligatory instagram photo afterward most companies get you to take. In this time we could have just finished the damn room… with a 45 min reset time, five minutes and we don’t require a refund, is not at all a huge ask. I even offered to buy the next game just so we could finish. But was told they “were booked” This girl honestly just wanted us gone. I have never seen an escape room host just shuttle you through like this. And not that we wanted it, but even after the incident there was refund or discount or coupon offered, nothing. We eventually got a phone call later that night while we were long gone from the area from the same employee asking us if we’d like to come back to play more rooms - but it was the same GM and hours too late… weird we weren’t offered a game on the house while we were there. I hate to say this but this is the worst escape room experience I have ever had. The room itself while novel, would have received decent reviews had there not been any “issues” but the experience starts and ends at the establishment’s door, not the room you are escaping. Overall: 3/10 stars. Customer service is part of the experience Pros: One star for the novel approach to darkness, one for the thematic elements and entryway set design and character acting one for the fact we were having fun until the interruption. Cons: Minus one for Sharp object on floor Unaccommodating staff Management not present or offering refunds or ample additional time due to a forced interruption of our game. The dark puzzles while neat didn’t fit the theme theme in general was kind of lacking as was a story, it was just a “collect x things” room Game time was too short for two and room was too small for more than four people so it should be 60 not 45 minutes

The Depths

The Escape Game Houston - The Galleria

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IRL

The Escape Game sets the bar time and time again for how sets should be designed. They are clean, modern, nothing ever broken, and the theatrical value and production quality and integration with technology such as touch screens and special effects is worth a visit from another state for an enthusiast

Hike

Escape Again Rooms

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This company pumps out bangers left and right. All “hearts” from me. Puzzles have sturdy construction and work well flow wise. They were also quite straightforward there were no leaps of faith to solve any of them so the design was good. Difficulty level beginner to medium, their easiest one for sure but still challenging enough. Theme is this company’s strongest suit, they immerse you into whatever it is and you feel like you’re there. Worth a visit and worth doing all three of theirs (as of this date they have three) some of the best in Houston

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