아마존의 잃어버린 도시 [The Lost City of Amazon]

Mixed (23 ratings)

Seoul Escape Room Hongdae 2

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IRL

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Season 2 Episode 3 With the time machine you built in the Time Traveler’s Lab, you traveled back in time to year 1988 to meet your father. Although you weren’t able to meet him, you found his travel notes that indicate that he could be in Peru, Italy, or USA in different time periods. You choose to travel to Peru and turn on your dad’s time machine that creates a portal connecting to a specific time and place in Peru as saved in the machine. Walking out of the time portal, you find yourself in the middle of a dense rainforest. First thing you notice is the vast amount of lush vegetation all around you, immediately followed by a thick wall of heat and suffocating humidity. You also notice countless birds chirping in the background and monkeys howling in the distance above the trees. This must be the Amazon rainforest. You start desperately looking for any clues that could be left by your dad. The time portal will only hold for 1 hour so you must hurry up and get back, otherwise you will be stranded alone in the vast Amazonian rainforest to God knows what end. Then, behind a large tree you find a backpack, and inside archaeology tools and supplies for a single traveler. It must be him ! In your dad’s last letter you found in the 1988 Room he talked about discovering an ancient Incan city of Gold. Could that be true ? You have 1 hour to find out.

2-6
75 mins
Hard
Not scary

Ratings

All ratings (23)

Mixed

Gameplay: Mixed

Atmosphere: Positive

Customer service: Positive

Reviews

EscapeRoomExplorer

228 escape rooms

As an ambitious design, ‘Amazon’ succeeds in making players feel like a tomb raider. There are moments where you feel as if you are Indiana Jones or Lara Croft amidst an Amazonian jungle. However, the laborious reality of symbol-decoding holds ‘Amazon’ from being a truly incredible room. Many of the rooms feature unique and memorable props or set pieces that stand out among the English-friendly escape rooms in Seoul. The physicality of the room was delightful, but the puzzles were predominantly centred on deciphering, which proved difficult at first and became tedious as we progressed through the 75-minute experience. The initial sequence of deciphering puzzles was challenging and felt grinding, but the middle and end phases of the game were comparatively stronger. The level of English in this room was excellent and didn’t impede any puzzles at all. While the diversity of puzzles could be improved, ‘Amazon’ is a must-play in Seoul, if only to experience the set design. It’s worth noting that Seoul Escape does lock you into the room—you cannot open the door and leave at any time. However, you can request that the staff leave the door unlocked. We asked, and they ensured it was unlocked for us. (Disregard the time remaining and number of hints, we did escape and didn’t use that many hints.)

Gameplay

The physicality of the room was delightful, the puzzles themselves were predominantly deciphering puzzles that proved difficult at first.

Atmosphere

The sets were wonderful, and the expansiveness of the experience was impressive.

Customer service

Staff were kind.

Particularly interesting or different

Yes

Story

This room offered more of a theme than a strong narrative, but it certainly delivered an Indiana Jones-esque experience!

Difficulty

Hard

The deciphering become taxing at times. While it certainly makes sense that there would be deciphering of symbols when exploring Amazonian ruins, it can become difficult at times.

Ideal number of players

Scary

Not scary

Minimum age

Was anything broken?

Yes

A puzzle wasn’t functioning as it should, and the GM was quick to investigate and bypass that puzzle for us.

Live actors

Physically active

Very

You need to be able to crawl and navigate uneven ground.

Accessibility

Not accessible.

Easy to find location

Yes

Parking

Limited

Dec 30, 2024 | Experienced Dec 30, 2024

Cheng2202

38 escape rooms

Too much code deciphering and repetetive tasks. Also irritating that you have to go back and forth. Plus side is many rooms and super well decorated and you feel immersed in the room.

Gameplay

Atmosphere

Customer service

Game tech

Mechanical

Jul 25, 2024

RichardK

73 escape rooms

Alot to do in this room. The decoration and jungle features are really nice and worth it. But there is way too much deciphering needed to make this room work and you constantly have to go back and grab things from earlier and some of the puzzles could really need a proper hint as we just figured out the solution by pure chance or elimination of even stupider solutions. Nevertheless a nice room with alot to do! If the puzzles would make more sense and the clues would be better given, this would really be a topnotch room.

May 16, 2024

potato8

94 escape rooms

The cool set design didn’t make up for the puzzles in my experience. There was too many of the same types of puzzles which was code deciphering based on symbols. The room itself had a moldy odor to it and felt too dimly lit. We started sneezing when we got inside and only stopped sneezing after leaving the room. Hints were on an iPad and the host could not give clues maybe due to language barrier. At one point felt very stuck.

Mar 11, 2024