Escape room

Mass Escape

The Eckstein Experiment

Great game, they do an awesome job at mass escape. And what’s better than getting hints from a talking brain? Unique puzzles that were challenging but fun

44 Winterwood Lane

This is my favorite from mass escape. Creepy dolls, creepy room? Count me in. Puzzle were excellently made and executed. One of my all time faves

Escape The Room

Jurassic Escape

I’ve done 60+ rooms, am assistant manager at an escape room and design games/puzzles regularly. I found this game more frustrating than fun. While I was frustrated at first that we weren’t able to finish within the hour, that’s not why I give it a thumbs down. Here’s the pros/cons of this game, from a constructive perspective.

Pros:

Set design- Dinosaurs are what made us book, and that didn’t disappoint. Effects and lighting were also cool. Definitely felt “immersed” in a world of Dinos. 

Cons:

Guided start- after being told in our beginning speech that our game master would “tell us how to drive, not drive the car for us”, the game started with the opposite. The first section of the room was entirely guided via walkie-talkie interaction. This kind of broke the immersion, and took away the initial “quick, find the clues” adrenaline that comes with starting a game. Once we cleared this section, we realized this part also counted toward our time. Overall just felt like a false start that sucked out some time. 

Unclear clues-
We kept running into issues with unclear clues. At one point, we gained access to a “security camera”, but didn’t realize it until our game master told us on the screen. Even when we used the camera to look around, it was unclear what we were looking for. This was a continuous issue throughout the game. 

We solved that?-
More than once, we solved a puzzle without realizing. There was no clear indication we had solved it correctly, so we kept going back and trying to figure out what we were doing wrong. At a later point, we knew how to solve something, but couldn’t get it to work correctly (tech difficult). It’s frustrating to find out after working on something for a long time, knowing you have it right, and thinking it’s broken, only to find out you did solve it, but didn’t realize because nothing was really “revealed”.

Pro/Con:

Game master- I put this as a pro/con for a few reasons. 1) it was a holiday weekend, this might have affected things and, 2) it was later in the day, j know if is very tiring running games all day. Our game master was friendly, and did explain to us our errors at the end, however, he seemed tired, rushed, and almost annoyed. Multiple times in came, hints were displayed for things we’d already done, or un related to what we needed help with. Again, this may have been due to the holiday, but it brought down the experience. 

Overall: I wouldn’t recommend it. It was frustrating, and the puzzles weren’t anything special.

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