Search For The Stone Of Destiny

We did both ‘Search For The Stone Of Destiny’ and ‘Pursuit Of The Elixir Of Life’ rooms and unfortunately both were disappointing. Both these experiences (and a third which we did not do) occurs in the exact same rooms. The only difference being that depending on which experience you are doing, some puzzles a not assessable. It is essentially three seperate streams of linear puzzles within the same space. Whilst this concept was intriguing when explained to us, we felt the second experience felt too similar, repetitive and got a little boring. The few puzzles which are assessable to you are minimal. It would have been preferable to combine all three experiences into a single game. The augmented reality with a hand held phone felt like a gimmick. It was unnecessary, it did not add any magical moments or wow factor. All it did was display a message that otherwise could have been a physical page.

This room closed out our time playing Arcadium games (at least until a new room opens). The feeling of returning to a familiar space to play a new escape game is one that is largely unique to Arcadium in the Australian escape room scene. As the third game in the space, it felt rewarding to finally know how each puzzle piece and prop is utilised in the space. The Stone of Destiny was a moderately challenging game with a good array of puzzle types. From talking to Thaddeus after the game, it’s clear that the latest iterations the Arcadium team enacted have improved the player experience significantly. This is particularly true across their other rooms as well. The Arcadium team genuinely care about continually improving their games, and I’m excited to play their upcoming designs, and to revisit their earlier games as they continue to iterate.

This room was a bit confusing. Theme and decoration in this room are nice, the puzzles quite hard and nicely challenging, but good puzzles. But really confusing is how there are 3 (!!) rooms in one room here. There‘s lots and lots of cupboards and chests and posters and hints on the wall and around you, that you don‘t actually need for your specific adventure. Some of them are marked as such (having the signature of one of the other 2 adventures), but many, really many!, of them won‘t and leave you guessing. So most of the time we actually spent figuring out what to ignore and what to use in the room, than actually working on the puzzles. I think this could have been done better. We played rooms before where there were multiple adventures in one room and it did not feel like that at all. Here, unfortunately, it does feel like 3 adventures cramped into one room and that makes it a really confusing room. Game master was nice, though. And like I said, the puzzles are nice and within theme and challenging. And the fantasy, mythical setting and setup is well done.

Love Arcadium Adventures!

An amazing room. Keep an eye out you might find a puzzle in the bar area. The cocktails are amazing and the rooms are as well. Defiantly one of my favorite places to visit The rooms are amazing you really get drawn in to the store

Brilliant. Imaginative. Super fun!