Crustylamb
46 escape rooms
Out of the 50 + escape rooms I have done, this is easily the worst experience I’ve had. I booked 2 rooms back to back and asked for a refund on my second room after we completed this one. Between the messy, linear, boring, attempt at an escape room, I didn’t want to continue this horrible experience. This is definitely nothing like the other TRAPPED escape rooms I have done. The very least the owner can do is fix the broken pieces and props and clean the room up a little bit. I could forgive the mediocre puzzles, and homemade decorations, but to leave a door handle half hanging out and ripped posters on the walls, etc., it’s completely uncalled for and unacceptable. I understand they charge a little bit less than normal escape rooms, but that is completely justified after this experience. I just pray that somebody sees this review before going and saves their time and money. I wouldn’t go back and do the rest of their rooms if they offered them for free. My heart hurts for this place. GM was awesome though!
Gameplay
I made a home brew in 2 of my bedrooms and the gameplay was way better than this. A couple of the puzzles were ok, but as a whole it was terrible. Very linear box to box play with locks. Absolutely no technology in this room.
Atmosphere
The foam wall and door to enter the room were broken and almost falling over. The door knob was hanging out of the hole on the door and the door didn’t stay closed. We could see into the mall hallway during gameplay. Also the dirty mall floor tiles, the half displays and brackets on the walls, the ripped posters, broken props, and crap laying on the floor didn’t add to the atmosphere. Terrible.
Customer service
GM was the only positive to this entire experience. She kept an upbeat, positive and professional attitude, even though she was surrounded by horrible half broken escape rooms. She really needs to go get a job at a real escape room when this one inevitably closes.
Particularly interesting or different
Yes
It was very interesting that the owner of this place decided that these “escape rooms” are good enough to actually charge money for.
Story
The story was fine. It was exactly what you would expect from a Wonderland theme. Nothing special though.
Difficulty
Easy
My 7 year old was able to do some of it. It is made for kids after all. Our party of 3 and my daughter finished it in 12 minutes. We weren’t in any rush or really putting forth much effort either.
Game tech
Mechanical
Only manual locks. There was no sounds at all. We played in silence and there was no technology.
Ideal number of players
1
I would say 0. Trust me, you don’t want to play this. If you’re going to ignore this obvious warning, I would say no more than 2 people. It’s only one small room with about 5-6 puzzles.
Scary
Not scary
Definitely kid friendly. The only sounds in the room were the click of the locks and us talking.
Minimum age
6
While the puzzles are easy, a couple of them do take a little bit of thinking.
Was anything broken?
Yes
One of the puzzles included a couple things on the wall that were ripping and peeling off. I honestly feel like the owner gave up on the room.
Live actors
No
Unless you count the GM that would have to run into the room to give a clue……yes that is correct, if you need a clue, the game master will physically come into the room to tell you the clue. If there was any immersion to this game, it would’ve been lost on this alone. We don’t ask for any clues, but this is still a very unprofessional way of giving clues. (Walkie Talkies - $20)
Physically active
Not at all
Not a negative, but nothing harder than opening one of the many manually locked chests.
Accessibility
It’s one room with a prop in the middle of the square room. There should be enough room for a wheelchair to get around. Most of the puzzles are lower to the ground so that’s also a plus.
Easy to find location
Yes
Parking
Easy
