The Temple/ Artefact

What an adventure in the “province” of Bad Steben. From the outside, it looks like an old shoe cupboard – but instead of shoes, it now offers cinema-worthy immersive rooms. The entry into the dream world, the dreaming itself, and the gentle waking-up again were a flawless experience. At some points in the dream we got stuck, but Lasse, our gamemaster, always managed to keep us within the storyline of Metropolis. The follow-up afterwards, where our remaining questions and uncertainties were addressed, was very well done. We’ll be happy to return.

One of the best escape rooms ever!!! This escape room is a must in Bucharest. Lots of room to explore, excelent puzzles, perfect difficulty. The owner is a very passionate man about escape room. It was an amazing experience

Glad to see this room. Finally getting the recognition it deserves and appearing as a finalist with TERPECA. This is easily my favourite ever Egyptian themed room and one of the top games I've ever played.

This Escape Room is an absolute must-play by puzzle-lovers. The puzzles are not particularly hard. We managed to finish the room in 49 minutes, but everything is amazingly incorporated in the room and we absolutely loved the game. This is a very unique Escape Room experience with an eye for every single detail.

One of my favorite rooms ever. The puzzles are very fun and it’s riddled with both classic and completely unique mechanisms. The fact that the room is linear makes it a lot easier to solve since there’s never too many noisy or intersecting elements that are stumping you or that you can’t use yet. The rooms keep coming one after another and along the way they tell a fun and compelling story which is really adding to the experience.

The Artefact is more than just an escape room; it's a true experiential journey. Tremendous effort was put into creating an atmosphere worthy of a movie set. You feel like a genuine explorer searching for the cursed artifact in the pharaoh's sarcophagus. Everything is automated and incredibly realistic.

"The Artefact" transcends the typical escape room; it's an immersive experiential journey. Remarkable effort went into crafting a movie-like atmosphere, truly making you feel like an authentic explorer hunting for a cursed artifact within the pharaoh's sarcophagus. The room's automation and lifelike elements contribute to an incredibly realistic and captivating adventure.

The Artefact is one of the largest rooms in Bucharest. The owners managed to fill this space with varied puzzles, cool props and enough adventure to satisfy even the most die-hard fans. It’s one of the rooms that should not be missed while in Bucharest.

Absolutely beautiful escape room made by people with a lot of love for the genre. The setting is incredibly immersive, looking like a real ancient Egyptian tomb. And the GM told us that the attention to detail was impeccable: the hieroglyphs are genuine, the paintings on the wall follow the myth of Egyptian death, hieroglyphs are carved with low relief and figures with high relief etc. Even the duration of the escape room (93 minutes) is not randomly chosen. The room is the largest in Romania currently and it took 3 years to complete. Despite this, the business does not charge more than the normal escape room rate in Bucharest. The room is shaped like a long corridor that opens up gradually towards the tomb as you solve more and more puzzles. The puzzles are great and are very heavy on actual thinking and pattern matching rather than observation. There is also a timed section where you have to move fast across the temple (or have many people around different spots if you have a bigger group) which is exciting and really gives that Tomb Raider feeling. The game also features a very novel hint system: the first room has scrolls with the solution for each puzzle that players can access at will, so their progression does not depend on the GM. It's up to the players how much time they want to spend with each puzzle. More escape rooms should employ this! We ended up using only 3 hints. We used up ~50 minutes with the first 3 puzzles because observation puzzles keep stumping us 😤, but we were very good at all the others and managed to finish within ~103 minutes. You also get to keep a souvenir at the end, so it's perfect for players like us who love having keepsakes from their adventures! Thanks Edi for being a great host! :)