What Happened to Detective Magnum?What Happened to Detective Magnum?What Happened to Detective Magnum?
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What Happened to Detective Magnum?

Very positive (78 ratings)

  • Escape room
  • IRL

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Your friend, Detective Michael Magnum, is presumed to be dead. Police found a suicide note but oddly enough they have not found his body. Something seems off! The 80’s have been so good to him…so what happened?

  • 2-8
  • 60 mins
  • Hard
  • Not scary

Ratings

All ratings (78)

Very positive

Gameplay
Very positive
Atmosphere
Very positive
Customer service
Very positive

Reviews

@ProfessorEnigma
ProfessorEnigma

30 escape rooms

The room was overall pretty good. The best part of all was scratching the nostalgia itch. We had party members in their 40s and some in their 50s, and so quite of lot of the elements included in solving were fun childhood memories. The actual puzzles themselves were a bit simplistic. A mix of a bit of low tech and a bit of high tech. The only downside is that the room really needs some TLC. It looks worn out and used, and doesn't feel like it's upkept very well. Also our GM did a very poor job on the intro, so there was zero buy in on what should have been a very fun plot to the room's theme.

Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Particularly interesting or different

No

Story
Difficulty

Easy

Game tech

Mechanical

Ideal number of players

4

Scary

Not scary

Minimum age

15

Was anything broken?

No

Live actors

No

Physically active

Not at all

Easy to find location

Yes

Parking

Easy

May 14, 2025

e

egtung

256 escape rooms

I liked this more than Mutiny, the only other game we played at Escape Plan Columbia. Puzzles worked and made sense, and the theming felt good (though admittedly "old 60s-80s house" is not super hard). Some of the props were unexpectedly customized to us or to the game, rather than just being generic, which was a nice touch. Having said that, one puzzle was almost illegibly worn, and some props felt unmaintained. We also didn't realize when we won, since there was no feedback or confirmation. Escape Plan Columbia needs to step up their game here.

Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service

As noted in my review for Mutiny, the GM was grouchy (to be fair, we had shown up late, and she was running three games simultaneously).

Particularly interesting or different

No

Difficulty

Medium

Game tech

Mix of mechanical and high tech, but I'd say leans mechanical

Ideal number of players

I imagine 2-4 enthusiasts would be fine.

Scary

Not scary

Was anything broken?

No

Live actors

No

Physically active

Not at all

Easy to find location

Yes

Parking

Easy

Mar 31, 2025 | Experienced Mar 20, 2025
@mlowder77
mlowder77

9 escape rooms

This escape room was mediocre. The props were old things seem dirty, and nothing was up-to-date. Props didn’t work and neither did. Some of the locks was a little disappointing in the way it all went and at the end for the final clue, we could not get the safe open and the Girl who were there had to come in to try and do it and never could herself get it open to get to the final clue.

Gameplay

Did not flow well on the puzzles did not make sense. Clues are not easy to find.

Atmosphere

The set was old and seemed at a date and dirty nothing special about it at all

Customer service

The staff was very nice and tried her best to help with the puzzles even though several things did not work correctly she herself tried to come in there and work it as well and still could not get to work either very disappointing

Game tech

Mechanical

Things were very old and out of date

Mar 30, 2025 | Experienced Dec 10, 2024
@calligoodrich
calligoodrich

70 escape rooms

It was ok. Not my favorite. Really picky details which irritated me. Gm was super kind though.

Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Scary

Not scary

Sep 3, 2024
@Pandorasfoxx
Pandorasfoxx

52 escape rooms

Fun thematic room that feels very immersive. Great props that are part of puzzles. Would be a great game for families if they have tweens or older.

Gameplay

Some great puzzles that truly coordinated with the theme

Atmosphere

Immersive

Customer service
Particularly interesting or different

Yes

Some cool single use gameplay items that make it more immersive

Story

We didn’t get any storyline before starting the game which was strange. Unsure if we were just expected to know it based on their website or if it was oversight.

Difficulty

Medium

Ideal number of players

1

2 people can easily work through this game

Scary

Not scary

Minimum age

12

Was anything broken?

Yes

One of the items needed to see a clue didn’t properly work-advance

Live actors

No

Physically active

Not at all

Easy to find location

Yes

Parking

Easy

Apr 21, 2024 | Experienced Apr 21, 2024
@scmoonshine
scmoonshine

116 escape rooms

Fun room. Definitely a good experience.

Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service

Great employees.

Particularly interesting or different

Yes

Story

This room was like time traveling back to the ‘80s.

Difficulty

Medium

Game tech

Mechanical

This room had a good mixture of tech and mechanical locks and puzzles

Ideal number of players

5

Scary

Not scary

Minimum age

12

Was anything broken?

No

Live actors

No

No live actors in the room but you do interact with someone.

Physically active

Not at all

Accessibility

No issues

Easy to find location

Yes

Parking

Easy

Mar 30, 2024 | Experienced Mar 30, 2024

m

mg705

72 escape rooms

fun game, a little on the harder side because we did it with two people and there was a lot to be done!

Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Story
Difficulty

Hard

Scary

Not scary

Was anything broken?

No

Live actors

No

Physically active

Not at all

Easy to find location

Yes

Parking

Easy

Jan 8, 2024
@CheshireJack
CheshireJack

31 escape rooms

The game itself was very engaging and definitely held the vibe of stepping into the 80’s. I wouldn’t say the game itself is overly difficult, but there were a number of props that probably need a bit of attention paid to them. Definitely suggest trying out the game, but just beware of props being a bit worn down or dry erase markers not working!

Customer service
Jun 19, 2023 | Experienced Jun 6, 2023

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