Pitfall

Pitfall

Mostly positive (55 ratings)

  • Escape room
  • IRL

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You and your team of treasure hunters are searching for the elusive Black Hills Gold Mine, believed to contain a vast treasure of gold worth millions of dollars. The exact location of the mine entrance was buried in a powerful earthquake that collapsed the mine over 75 years ago…. While searching for the mine entrance deep in the overgrown jungle of South America, you plunge into a hidden pitfall and become trapped with only 60 minutes to get out alive…

  • 2-8
  • 60 mins
  • Not scary

Ratings

All ratings (55)

Mostly positive

Gameplay
Mixed
Atmosphere
Very positive
Customer service
Mixed

Reviews

@Batou
Batou

10 escape rooms

Setting was amazing and very immersion. The puzzles were tough but with thought they can be done. Biggest issues and why I wouldn't recommend it was one puzzle was so finicky that even with the correct solve it wasnt working until it was slammed in. Things outside the escape room were very dirty. Also if you have anyone who struggles with stairs at all you cannot get to the place.

Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Physically active

Somewhat

Sep 1, 2025
@SapphireQS
SapphireQS

53 escape rooms

With the enchanting lobby and stellar set design of the initial room, my high expectations for Pitfall were definitely not met. The puzzles were very linear, making it so even our team of two felt like a crowd. The GM switched part way through the game, and both were clearly not keeping an eye on our game. They also didn't follow through on their commitment to only giving hints when we asked for one, and the hints they did give were so big that it essentially solved the puzzle for us. We finished with 22 minutes left as a team of two, which further proves the over-hinting. The sound effects in the room were also surprisingly poor. You could clearly hear the track of mine sounds pause and loop, and the sound that was supposed to indicate room completion was so similar to the other sounds that as were only able to tell we were done because the screen said "success." All of that being said, the room was priced lower than many other rooms, and given that low price we didn't leave feeling like we were ripped off.

Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service

Some of the poorest GMing I've seen in a room

Story

The theme is a creative idea, however the game master failed to present the theme to us, and we only knew the theme because we'd read about it online ahead of time.

Minimum age

21+

Accessibility

One puzzle requires players to differentiate colors, and the room will be easiest for players comfortable with crouching. Also, a warning for people with arachnophobia or ophidiophobia.

Parking

They don't have their own parking lot, but there are many parking garages within quick walking distance where parking is $5 an hour.

May 11, 2024 | Experienced May 11, 2024
@undeniablyanna
undeniablyanna

50 escape rooms

We loved this room! We actually had so much time to kill before our other room that we thought we would stop in and see if they’d let us do another room walk-in - and they had this one available! It was super fun and well designed, and like Stephie said very immersive. We ended up really enjoying ourselves. The staff here is amazing and so kind and welcoming - we’re excited to go back and do the other rooms!

Gameplay

Flowed well

Atmosphere

Really good design

Customer service

The team is so nice here

Particularly interesting or different

Yes

Story
Difficulty

Medium

Game tech

High tech

Ideal number of players

2

Scary

Not scary

Minimum age

11

Was anything broken?

No

Live actors

No

Physically active

Somewhat

Easy to find location

Yes

Parking

Medium

Jan 16, 2024
@stephie
stephie

54 escape rooms

I really enjoyed this room! It had a cool twist on a common theme and was super immersive.

Gameplay

Nothing crazy special but good!

Atmosphere

Great atmosphere.

Customer service

Great GM.

Parking

Medium

Dec 29, 2023

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akatsiya

27 escape rooms

Had some cool puzzle elements, but generally unintuitive solutions

Gameplay

15 separate 4-digit padlocks linked together in an arbitrary order, and whenever a new code was found we had to brute-force try it on several of them until one eventually worked

Atmosphere
Customer service

The GM was great but the hints offered were basically necessary to complete the puzzle

Story
Difficulty

Hard

Game tech

Mechanical

Ideal number of players

4

Scary

Not scary

Was anything broken?

No

Live actors

No

Physically active

Not at all

Easy to find location

Yes

Parking

Limited

Jan 8, 2023 | Experienced Jan 8, 2023
@sntmcgraw
sntmcgraw

65 escape rooms

Game play significantly suffered because our game master was largely inattentive. There were several times throughout our room where it would take upwards of five prompts and three to five minutes to get a response from our game master. When she did provide guidance it was clear that she has not been monitoring our game or aware of the steps we had taken to that point. This caused significant frustration she appeared to not even be listening to our response to her clue.

Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Parking

Limited

Aug 7, 2022 | Experienced Aug 7, 2022

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Editorial

  • Pitfall was so much fun to experience and reminded us how much we missed playing escape rooms!

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