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blurghtastic
19 escape rooms
echoing other users by saying the space is severely underutilized. GM is such a nice guy, and knows how to spook the scaredy-cats in a group. I’d still go back after a few years.
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A new family has just moved into your neighborhood. They've invited you to dinner to get to know you better. You buy a fancy bottle of wine and head to the dinner party. After knocking the door multiple times, no one answers. You hear some strange noises from inside. You knock the door again, harder, still nothing. After pushing the door a little, it opens. “Hello there, is anybody home?” The door slams shut behind you & you hear the locking noise of the padlock. You're horrified! You try hard to open the door, but there is no way out. You're stuck inside this scary house. You have one hour to get out. Good luck: You'll need it!
- 2-20
- 60 mins
- Spooky
Reviews
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Sneebleton
50 escape rooms
Multiple rooms in a large "big room". A lot of the rooms mechanics were electronic, which was great. There is a lot of unused empty space and unused puzzle spaces. It's a pretty decent escape room, and the GM was pretty cool as well.
Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Particularly interesting or different
Yes
An entire "house" is the escape room
Story
Difficulty
Easy
Game tech
High tech
Scary
Spooky
Was anything broken?
No
Live actors
Yes
Physically active
Somewhat
Accessibility
There is one major part of the room that requires you to escalate stairs, and there is no wheelchair accessibility for this part.
Easy to find location
Yes
Parking
Easy
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Hella
29 escape rooms
This room was of very poor quality. It boasts being the largest escape in the mid-west, but the majority of the space is not utilized at all, or is only filled with set dec that aren't part of any puzzle at all. The props felt very homemade (grainy text on important clues, deterioration that shows answers through wear and tear, etc). There were very few puzzles all together, which weren't very satisfying or clever. On the other hand, there were several red herrings, so it was not obvious what were puzzles, especially since there were so few. There was zero plot, and a few different glimmers of story of that went nowhere. Unfortunate!
Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Particularly interesting or different
No
escapedefacto (Owner)
Dear Hella; We were surprised by your review, especially considering that House of Things has received over 600 Google reviews with a perfect 5.0 average, more than 100 Facebook reviews, and zero negative reviews on Yelp or TripAdvisor. Unfortunately, we cannot benefit from your feedback to improve our game, as the points you raised are not accurate. House of Things features an interconnected multi-room design with 13 different puzzles in total. Each room contains two or three puzzles, and solving the final puzzle in a room automatically turns on the lights in the next room. Only one traditional padlock and one combination lock are used — the rest are high-tech, electronic puzzles. There is no unnecessary decoration or misleading props; every element in the space is intentional. In addition, we could not find any record in our system showing that you played our game. There is no reservation under this name. If your experience had been negatively impacted by our staff, we would understand such a review — but you actually commented positively about our team. This makes it clear that your review is not objective, and we do not believe it reflects a good-faith evaluation. Out of nearly 1,000 reviews across multiple platforms, none mention the issues you described. Best regards...
Aug 13, 2025
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roughdraft
89 escape rooms
This was a game that left me scratching my head. The puzzles made enough sense, but there was not enough signposting to indicate what to do next or that elements went together. Unfortunately a lot of the set dec felt very homemade, which only added confusion to the situation.
Gameplay
It was totally fine, but it felt clunky at times. There wasn’t enough signposting to make the experience enjoyable.
Atmosphere
The set felt very sparse in such a large space. It was difficult to know what was set dec and what was important to the game play.
Customer service
The GM was very lovely.
Story
The story wasn’t present at all.
escapedefacto (Owner)
Dear roughdraft; We were surprised by your review, especially considering that House of Things has received over 600 Google reviews with a perfect 5.0 average, more than 100 Facebook reviews, and zero negative reviews on Yelp or TripAdvisor. Unfortunately, we cannot benefit from your feedback to improve our game, as the points you raised are not accurate. House of Things features an interconnected multi-room design with 13 different puzzles in total. Each room contains two or three puzzles, and solving the final puzzle in a room automatically turns on the lights in the next room. Only one traditional padlock and one combination lock are used — the rest are high-tech, electronic puzzles. There is no unnecessary decoration or misleading props; every element in the space is intentional. In fact, in every room there is always a logical connection between the puzzles. Solving the first puzzle will reveal or lead you to something that gives a clue for the next puzzle — which is the exact opposite of what you stated. In addition, we could not find any record in our system showing that you played our game. There is no reservation under this name. If your experience had been negatively impacted by our staff, we would understand such a review — but you actually commented positively about our team. This makes it clear that your review is not objective, and we do not believe it reflects a good-faith evaluation. Out of nearly 1,000 reviews across multiple platforms, none mention the issues you described. Best regards...
Aug 13, 2025
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escapeduo
549 escape rooms
Actor in room was awesome. Really enjoyed the interactive puzzles.
Gameplay
NeanTank
29 escape rooms
I would recommend. It was a challenging room, and the room was HUGE. I liked the jump scares. It definitely fit the ‘feel’ of the room. I appreciated that they didn’t use too many padlocks also. It was mostly electronic/magnetic/physical puzzles.
Gameplay
I wouldn’t say it was novel, but the puzzles were good and some were quite challenging.
Atmosphere
This room was HUGE. Like, the size of a small house. They have a clever way to direct you to the right places though. I was worried that just four people wouldn’t be able to do this room, but it worked out. It was a little dark, but it fit the theme. There were some jump scares too when triggering puzzles. It was great!
Customer service
The GM did a good job. He was friendly and not overly helpful, but quick to respond when hints were needed. He gave hints without just telling you how to solve things.
Particularly interesting or different
No
I guess the size of the room made it a little different. It was well decorated also. The puzzles were good, but nothing out of the usual for escape rooms.
Story
No complaints. I think I’ll remember the room better than the plot though.
Difficulty
Hard
I would be surprised if anyone could do this room in an hour without using any hints.
Game tech
High tech
There were only two padlocks in the whole room. I appreciated that. I know padlocks do help give you some direction as to what you need to accomplish, but I felt like they found a good way to give that same direction without using padlocks excessively.
Ideal number of players
5
Scary
Scary
This room wasn’t directly scary, not like a haunted house or anything. However, there were some jump scares mixed with a general spooky vibe.
Minimum age
16
If you’ve got some particularly clever younger ones, they’d probably do okay. This room had some challenging puzzles though.
Was anything broken?
No
Live actors
Yes
Physically active
Somewhat
You have to climb a flight of stairs at one point in the game. Possibly multiple times if you get stuck on a puzzle like we did.
Accessibility
It’s not very accessible.
Easy to find location
Yes
Parking
Medium
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