The AlchemistSherlockedEscape roomIRLThis room is unreal and not like anything I have ever experienced. I’m not even upset that we didn’t get out (we had 2 people and this room is difficult with just 2) but we wanted the experience, and boy did it serve. Even though we didn’t get to the last puzzle we still got a beautiful magnetic ending. Beautiful design, super attentive game master with clever ways of giving clues, challenging, and extremely immersive. 100/10 so glad I made time for this on my work trip to Amsterdam.
Ghost LightMyssTic RoomsEscape roomIRLSuch a beautiful room with a lovely story. Fully immersive with amazing GM. We escaped with 6 mins left but wanted to stay longer to just look around the set and design.
Gold RushThe Escape Game - New YorkEscape roomIRLThe room itself was super fun- however I do have issues with some of the tardiness policy at this location. I understand this is a shared experience and we had 2 people who were booked with us and they were late. We started the room (after giving them a 5 min grace time) and they came in when we had 45 min left on the clock and completed the first portion of the room already. When they arrived it was extremely disruptive. The burden was on us to catch them up and wasting time on the clock to do so. If this location forces a shared experience, there needs to be stricter policies to allow for everyone to enjoy what they paid for. They should not have let them in the room 15 mins after the clock started and this ruined the experience for everyone as they demanded for us to catch them up and ruined the flow of the game.
The ArchitectSherlockedEscape roomIRLWe were very excited to play this room - knowing it will be difficult with just two people. The set is huge and it was amazing to see however there were instances where we believe we got incorrect clues. Also, at some point you and your partners are required to communicate with each other from different areas of the room and the technology to do was broken/malfunctioned. Also, one part of the puzzle got stuck and a key was jammed, I used up around 12 min (and my remaining time )trying to fish it out. When the GM came into the room, they also had a hard time getting the key out!
Wizard TrialsPanIQ Room - Las VegasEscape roomIRLEnjoyed the room - but we did not get out. Felt like the 45 min time limit is insane and felt like we got cheated on time as in the SF and NYC location PanIQ gives the full hour. I did enjoy the no locks/keys aspect and really do think that if we had a full hour we would’ve made it out (we were so close!)
Pirates of the Dark SeaJust EscapeEscape roomIRLWe had a not so great experience at one of the other rooms at Just escape so we decided to try another room to give them another chance. This room was one of the worst experiences I have ever had in an escape room. We had tech issues where multiple items were not triggered - and we had to have our GM come into the room to manually trigger which ruined the flow as we weren’t sure what the GM opened has bypassed. There’s also a portion of the puzzle where you need to listen carefully and the volume was either so low OR the drilling from a new experience they were creating was so loud (which definitely ruined the immersive aspect) we could not hear. We won’t be coming back to this location.
