The Warrior's Way

Overall enjoyed the escape room. Ranked 8/10 difficulty online and I can see why. Initially my team had trouble starting the room, leading ourselves in circles. However, once we had a rhythm going each puzzle felt like a small victory after a slow start.

We were really excited for this one because we love a good split start. Unfortunately there were several things that fell flat for us. There was a puzzle feature that malfunctioned early on (non user error) and it not only cost us time asking for help and trying to figure out if we were missing something - but it ultimately resulted in a puzzle becoming unavailable to us. The GM had to provide the riddle to us via screen. Additionally, it was really challenging to make those earlier connections. In the next portion of the room, there was a puzzle we spent several minutes on (partially because of a misleading hint and sticky programming - having to go through the puzzle several times to ensure our timing was exact or pieces placed exactly was frustrating.) After that, things came together quickly and we managed to escape even without having to use the “extra minute” that was granted to us for the faulty puzzle earlier. This room has a lot of potential, but definitely needs some refurbishing/work. Friendly GMs and easy booking.

Love how all of the Red Door Rooms connect so was excited to do this one. The puzzles and flow were great. I’ll let you find out which one tested our patience the most tho lol. Overall great.

The gameplay’s decent, probably one of Red Door’s high/upper-mid tier games, but I’ld say the atmosphere in this one just feels kind of empty.

A well designed/constructed room. Does a great job having you think a little outside the box. Your group will be split in 2 to start, just an fyi. Our GM Sophie was wonderful too.

One of the better escape rooms. You start split up, so make sure your group is okay with that. Very high production values.

I agree with previous rooms about the puzzle difficulty and no clear sense of direction. We finished with two people but definitely would recommend four.

This was our first challenging puzzle. While I think some of the puzzles were super clever, like the koi, teapots, and others.. I do think that the room is ready for some maintenance. There are components that jiggle that are clues, items that are delayed, props ripped off the shelves, and holes in items where you would think a clue fits, but doesn’t. We spent way too much time analyzing broken items or holes that it ruined the flow. But I would say we did enjoy our time and the staff was amazing as always.

There was a feature which we spent a good amount of time trying to make work. When we requested help from the GM repeatedly regarding this puzzle, they ignored us (or didn't hear us). After the game was over, they explained that that puzzle was broken. They then recommended that we play the room again some time to break the time record. Otherwise, the room was great and would have been my favorite experience at Red Door.