Shaky Grounds Cafe

This escape room concept is absolutely brilliant! The owner built it inside a trailer, making it fully mobile and easy to transport to different locations—such a smart idea! Despite being set in a trailer, it doesn’t compromise on the quality of the puzzles, the setup, or the novelty of the experience. The room’s theme revolves around emergency preparedness, and the scene was incredibly realistic—even featuring a crashed car inside the room! The owner mentioned that he used to work in the film industry designing movie sets, and it really shows in the level of detail. Every element felt intentional and immersive. The puzzles were clever and unique, all thoughtfully tied into the storyline. There was a lot to do, and the game was non-linear, which kept things engaging. We played with just two people and unfortunately didn’t make it out in time. One of the drawers was a bit stuck, and we assumed it was locked—so we didn’t try to force it open until the very end when we were completely stuck. The game master eventually pointed it out. Having one or two more teammates probably would’ve helped us avoid that kind of oversight! Overall, I’d give this a solid 10/10. The quality of the game is top-notch, and you can really tell how much thought and care the owner put into designing it. I’d recommend this experience to everyone—even if you’re not usually into escape rooms, it’s still an awesome and memorable adventure!

The game itself was fun, and challenging, which is great! However, the man who was running it was unprofessional and rude! After we were done he came in, we felt we did pretty well (didnt finish, but proud of what we did), and said we didn't focus on this or that...he said "not so cocky now!". Not sure where that comment came.feom. we never claimed we were going to finish or be great, and in fact we're claiming inside trailer that it was hard. So for him to make that comment pissed off all of us. Just rude! Spent $200 and they had not been very busy this weekend. A little gratitude for us even showing up to play at this pop up, when we have other local escape rooms where the games are fun and the people are nice and professional.

This was so much fun! We even came back a second time during the week it was in our area, and brought the kids! Fun for all ages! Thank you!

This is just an amazing and unique escape room! It is really cool to do an escape room while learning about emergency preparedness. Tyler is a joy and anybody that hasn’t gone to this one needs to!

Where do I begin...I agree when you think "how is this going to be as good in a trailer" but here size really doesn't matter. The puzzles were great and such a unique and fun room. It is up there with one of my favorite rooms in The US! Doable with 2 enthusiasts and 3 if they work really well together. Tyler is awesome and this room has so much love in it and truly creative and thoughtful puzzles. Highly recommend this one as a MUST do!

We loved this room! It was the first we have done inside a trailer and we were super impressed! The game was well designed and had so many great elements that were very on theme. Well done!

We absolutely loved this room! It exceeded my expectations, especially knowing this was a mobile room and educational. Don’t let this deter you from booking. Tyler was an exceptional host and his passion for this project is palpable. We loved learning while having fun. The experience was immersive and the puzzles were on theme. Even small details scattered throughout the room really made this such a great, clever experience. We hope Tyler has more rooms in the future for us to play!

Really engaging and clever puzzles with a nice detailed environment paired with some useful survival tips

This is a must-play experience for Portland. Don’t let the fact that this room is only the size of a semi trailer discourage you, this room is densely packed with a great variety of puzzles to solve, so much so that the two of us took 59 minutes to complete it. I wasn’t sure how I felt about an educational escape room when reading about this experience online beforehand. After playing, I feel that the geographically relevant and educational nature of the escape room only enhanced the experience. This is just a really cool thing that they’ve done, and I hope they do more of it.

This was an amazing room! The puzzles are all really well done and we loved the parallel nature of it, there were enough for all 5 of us to have something to do without anyone missing out. The theming and props were all amazing. You can tell a lot went into this game. One of the best in Portland!