Haunted HouseEscapology - Orland ParkEscape roomIRLThis was a fantastic room. Loved the puzzles, the horror aspects. There was 1 puzzle that didn't work and when we used a clue it told us to do something we already were doing, but besides that I had a great experience!
Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient ExpressEscapology - Orland ParkEscape roomIRLThis is probably one of the most difficult escape rooms I have ever done and overall did not enjoy this room. My enjoyment is directly tied to Escapology employees seemingly not paying attention to what we were doing. Our gamemaster asked us if we wanted free clues, we said "No, but if we are getting behind just let us know" so that we know to ask for one if we want to. She agreed to this and well they just never did this, so we thought we were doing fine, then all of a sudden they started sending us multiple clues back to back to back (over the course of 5 minutes). As someone who works at an escape room this is a clear sign that we were REAALLLLYYY far behind and they were just trying to get us to a certain point, which felt frustrating because for some puzzles we didn't even get to attempt them before being rushed to the next part. A few puzzles we were on the right track, doing it right, but a clue was sent to seemingly get us moving. We definitely were supposed to be at a certain point 20 minutes ago and they weren't paying attention to get us on the right track earlier. A lot of puzzles involve at least 3 elements and it was overwhelming at points. The final puzzle did not work when we did the correct order. I give the employees credit that they did give us extra time and even paused our time so we could complete (once again it seemed like they knew that we struggled for far too long and were trying to make sure we at least had a good experience). We probably spent 5 minutes on the final puzzle before it eventually worked. We mentioned it to the worker and she said "yeah it's finnicky", not her fault, but shows it's a known issue. Very frustrating especially for the final puzzle of the room!
AntidoteEscapology - Orland ParkEscape roomIRLI'll be honest that I thought I didn't like this room, but after doing some other escapology rooms I realized this one is actually a pretty okay escape room. Visually the room isn't very impressive, but it does have some fun and creative puzzles.
Kraken CasinoLegendary Escape Rooms - PlainfieldEscape roomIRLBeware of any escape rooms from "Legendary Escape Rooms". Puzzles just straight up don't work, the game masters seem to not even be watching to make sure they send the right clues, and if you lose they don't even show you the right steps. These rooms may *look* nice, but they're far from it.
