Nocturnal Keep

Nocturnal Keep had some great puzzles with lots of variety in puzzle type! The GM (possibly owner?) is an enthusiast herself, which is always a major green flag in my book. I really appreciated the clarity of the task and steps to accomplish it, and thought the hint system was fun and clever. The room theme is pretty generic, but is still worth playing for the puzzles themselves. There was one point where I was asking for a hint for two minutes straight and had to ask three separate times before receiving a response. While I can appreciate that they were short-staffed and the GM was juggling a lot at once, it's also stressful when the clock is ticking and you're trying to get the attention of someone who isn't there. Additionally, there was one puzzle that required color differentiation in which it genuinely felt impossible to differentiate the colors because they were too similar. Even using the provided lanterns, we could not tell which color was which. I ended up having to go to my jacket and get my phone flashlight to have a strong enough light to tell which color was which, which was a bummer because it kind of broke the immersion. If you, like me, are someone who prefers to play the rooms at a location based on the quality of the room, ending with the strongest room, the order I would recommend is Nocturnal Keep, Baggage Bandits, and then Mole of the Mountain. Nocturnal Keep was a nice room and we enjoyed ourselves, but having played both of their other rooms already, it didn't live up to what we know the designers here are capable of.

This is a must do room if you're visiting Cape Cod! The set design is amazing! It is absolutely gorgeous and you feel as if you're in a medieval castle. The puzzles are a great mix that really makes you think and lead to amazing moments of discovery. I love their clue system and think it's a neat little extra that soothes the sting of having to ask for help. Loved the room! Please go do it!

This is a good room just be aware that if you have happened to do the Dragonborne room at Lara’s Labyrinth that many of the same elements and puzzles appear in this room. I was a little disappointed because all of the other rooms I have done here were unique and seemed proprietary to this independent escape room so it took me by surprise to find exact puzzles and props from a chain escape room that I know buys full rooms from overseas companies that specialize in escape rooms. Nevertheless the room itself was immersive and fun with still some surprise elements.

Fun room with a medieval and wizard type theme. We did it with 2 people though the minimum online is 4. They charged us more per person but less than it would cost for 4 people. Though realistically the room isn't physically much larger or more puzzles than other rooms and it wasn't being booked anyways and required the same staffing as other rooms so the extra fee shouldn't be needed. The game itself is a lot of fun with some interesting and different puzzles. Some obvious clues and some very vague ones. Some are just hard to see due to the lighting and novelty lanterns given. There were a couple slow reactions to solving puzzles; either due to a slow main computer for the game (which was definitely the case with the wizard video animation) or just the GMs not actively monitoring the game for things they manually trigger. We used a couple hints foolishly, both for things we already knew the answer to. And the vague hints just forced us to focus and try again (or in the case of one lock shine a better light on it to see what was really needed). Overall finishing in under 60 minutes for a 75 minute game with only two people (on a game they only let you book online with 4 or more) isn't too bad. And we had a lot of fun doing it. We did another of their rooms on the same day and will be back for the third (and hopefully fourth) soon.

Great theming, fun room, some unique tech which makes it super special!

This game was wild. It was so awesome to meet one of the owners/designers after the game, Taylor. He was incredibly passionate and he was happy to show us the inner workings and the “behind the scenes” of the game. Seeing his enthusiasm made it all the better for us! We had a great time working through the puzzles.