Curse Of Colchester Cemetery

Delightfully atmospheric, including sound effects! Good puzzles, but sometimes we knew what to look for because of the provided run book. Well done story.

1st time at Cryptiq Escapes and it was a great experience! The windows of the building are tinted on the outside so you cannot see in at all and when we walked inside, there is a cool waiting room on the one side and the other side looks like a formal Den with bookshelves with antique trinkets on it. It looked like both rooms went no where until a wall magically opened up and Robin (our GM) greeted us. After this cool 1st interaction upon our arrival, I knew Cryptiq was going to have some cool rooms. The Curse of Colechester Cemetery was their easiest room, but after a day of baseball games, it was a perfect room for us. Cool graveyard environment where the temperature even made it feel like you were in a cemetery in the middle of the night. There were multiple rooms to explore and they were well done with life-sized props. Lots of fun different puzzles, and nothing too difficult, so we were able to enjoy everything and not rush. There was a surprising amount of cool tech in this room where you would use a Ouija Board and something cool would happen. Every time it happened, it was a cool moment. Flow of the game was really good and we used zero hints. Like I said, this was their easiest game, but still a fun experience and a well done room for beginners or couples. GM (Robin) was really nice to talk to before and after our game, talking about her favorite rooms at Cryptic as well as some of her favorite games from California, where she use to run games. She also told us about Cryptiq’s other rooms and what they compared to, so I look forward to trying their other games when we next visit Iowa City.

I may be a little biased here because this was my FIRST escape room. Since then, I've done over 70 since this room, it's safe to say I loved this room! Great production, friendly staff, and engaging story-telling. Solving each puzzle is very gratifying. This room isn't scary, but it has a great spooky atmosphere!

Puzzles flowed very well, made sense, great room. Really enjoyed this one