Ruins: Forbidden TreasureThe Escape Game - Berry HillEscape roomIRLOverall rating - 9.4/10 Puzzles - 9 Gameplay - 10 Atmosphere - 10 Experience - 7 For a breakdown of my weighted rating system you can refer to my bio. What a fun room! It was difficult with two of us but definitely doable. We mostly got stuck on the last room which overwhelmed us a bit but we still made it out. The set design was so so fun from beginning to end. I don't have any complaints on any of the puzzles, some were tough but all were fair. Though the space feels large, I don't actually think this room would be fun with more than 4 people, I think you'd have a few people standing around it's pretty linear and I think 2-4 is a good number. The experience gets a 5 for every escape game room because escape game does not provide private bookings and this has lowered the experience every time we've booked with them but they were accommodating when we asked if we could book another room.
TUTXscape! MorgantownEscape roomIRLOverall rating - 9.4/10 Puzzles - 9 Gameplay - 10 Atmosphere - 9 Experience - 10 For a breakdown of my weighted rating system you can refer to my bio I think this room is designed very well. It's perfect for splitting up it flows really well with 4 people. I loved it and the aesthetics are awesome.
PlaygroundThe Escape Game - CincinnatiEscape roomIRLOverall rating - 9.1/10 Puzzles - 8 Gameplay - 10 Atmosphere - 10 Experience - 7 For a breakdown of my weighted rating system you can refer to my bio. Super fun room! We almost wrote it off because of the theme but the reviews were so positive we gave it a shot. You hear playground and you think that it's probably more family/kid themed but there's definitely some challenging puzzles. The reason I rate it a 4/5 instead of a 5/5 is there were two puzzles I didn't find very enjoyable. One being the classic, "we took something and chopped it up into a bunch of pieces and now you have to put it back together". That's a D tier puzzle for me and always feels like a boring time killer. But the puzzles are all very interactive and this would be very fun with a 4 people. You can book this room with a large group but we did it with 2 and it was doable. Close but doable! Definitely would be fun with a bigger group though.
Catching CaponeXscape! MorgantownEscape roomIRLOverall rating - 9.1/10 Puzzles - 9 Gameplay - 9 Atmosphere - 9 Experience - 10 For a breakdown of my weighted rating system you can refer to my bio. I need to preface this review by saying this was the game that started it all for me so I'm probably pretty biased. That being said, I have done 50+ rooms now and I am still fairly confident this room holds up. I think I was pretty lucky to get this as my first room, I don't know if I would have fallen in love with escape rooms if I had started with a bad room. There are some very fun reveals and I think the puzzles are unique and fair. XScape does some nice custom sound/lighting work and the staff are always fantastic. Highly recommend.
The Last VampireEncrypted Escape - West ReadingEscape roomIRLOverall rating - 9.1/10 Puzzles - 9 Gameplay - 9 Atmosphere - 9 Experience - 10 For a breakdown of my weighted rating system you can refer to my bio I'll be honest, I'm reviewing this a while after doing the room so my memory is not perfect. But I know we had a great time in this room. I can confidently say it's good because there really isn't a bad room at encrypted. Even their first room is great. The puzzles and theme were fun.
The DepthsThe Escape Game - Berry HillEscape roomIRLOverall rating - 9.4/10 Puzzles - 10 Gameplay - 10 Atmosphere - 9 Experience - 7 For a breakdown of my weighted rating system you can refer to my bio. I think this is a great room for two players, flows nicely, I think all the puzzles are very fair and make sense, we really enjoyed it. It had a nice flow with 2 people and the set design was really fun. I felt like all the puzzles had the perfect mount of thinking to "clicking" ratio. The puzzles were also very interactive, a lot of touching and turning stuff. Also I don't know if something changed with the room or they just forgot to turn the lights off but this was definitely not a dark room.
The Scary OneCountdown GamesEscape roomIRLOverall rating - 9.7/10 Puzzles - 9 Gameplay - 10 Atmosphere - 10 Experience - 10 For a breakdown of my weighted rating system you can refer to my bio. This is my favorite room here. It's hard but in a really fair way. We were very close to finishing, we were on the final puzzle when we failed. We had three experienced players I think one more would have been perfect. It's one of those rooms that makes you look back and go "gah if we had just gotten that one puzzle sooner." Only one puzzle felt like a stretch, 95% of it was fair and fun.
Biker's RevengeEncrypted Escape - West ReadingEscape roomIRLOverall rating - 8.8/10 Puzzles - 8.5 Gameplay - 8.5 Atmosphere - 9 Experience - 10 For a breakdown of my weighted rating system you can refer to my bio. I'm such a fan of all the rooms here. I think this is their first room which sometimes means it's the "worst" room but not in this case! They started out strong here at encrypted. Very little lock and key, mostly mag locks, and some really creative puzzles and the flow is good!
Serial KillerGreat Scott EscapesEscape roomIRL5/5 I really loved this room. Our GM was fantastic, I think the clues and puzzles are unique. We did it with two and it was very doable. It’s non linear. The reveal towards the end is really fun and for a room in kind of the middle of nowhere western PA it really surprised us. No complaints really I thought it was fair and well paced throughout.
Frankenstein: The Awakening60 Minute Escape GameEscape roomIRLOverall rating - 9.0/10 Puzzles - 9 Gameplay - 8.5 Atmosphere - 9 Experience - 10 For a breakdown of my weighted rating system you can refer to my bio. Very fun room with great set design. The only thing I'd mention is this room is not handicap accessible. I would not consider it a spoiler because it says it on the website but there is crawling and tight spaces. We thought the puzzles and flow of the room was great, though some of the puzzles it was difficult to tell when you had completed them and something had opened.
