Outage: No Vacancy

Spend a majority of the room in pure darkness! This hones in more on communication for success, rather than “wits” or putting so & so together. No jump scares in this room (which was a bummer)

I have been looking forward to visiting Escape Ventures and they did not disappoint. We were from out of town and played all 6 of their escape rooms in one day. It was such a great time and I cannot thank the team enough for treating us so well and making us laugh, chasing us around, and giving us the best experience of a lifetime. Now for Outage: No Vacancy If you have never been to a pitch black room, prepare yourself! This is such a different experience in that you really have to depend on your other senses without your ability to see. 90% of this room is done in the dark. I did wish that we could see the room afterwards but my hubby and I communicate pretty well and we were able to get out quickly without too many hints! I’m impressed with how safe they have to make it because folks can really hurt themselves if they are not too careful in the dark!

We really loved this room, did it with just the two of us and had a great time. The puzzles were different and flowed really well.

The theme was decent and did what it needed to do, create a reason for us to be solving puzzles in the dark. The live actor chimed in here and there but wasn't a big part of this room. The puzzles that were solved in the dark were all tactile enough that they are quite doable (once you find them). There were just me and one other person and we bumped into each other on occasion. We had a good laugh, but I bet it could feel tight with a largish group. There was one puzzle that I wasn't sure if I would be ruining my chances of solving it by changing its start state. Instructions specifically for this room make a point of calling out the initial state of puzzles implying that if you change the state and don't remember what it started at then it could be a problem. But honestly I'm not sure I recall any puzzles where that was the case.

Absolutely excellent amazing freakin room. So unique with brilliant puzzles. Played it twice and loved it even more the second time.

This room was very unique! I loved the challend of not being able to see a thing. Luke our game master stayed in character through the entire thing as well and was very helpful.

SO FUN! WOW this was a very unique experience. The puzzles are not hard but obviously a challenge in the dark. Perfect amount of difficulty imo. I did smack my face a few times on things but that’s my bad. Not scary at all and such a nice change of pace from the usual. 10/10 would do it again.

This was one of the most fun rooms I've done. The puzzles are fairly simple but the complete lack of light added an incredibly fun aspect to it. We cackled the entire time.

This is a solid, unique room that does the pitch black experience better than any room we’ve ever seen. It’s tricky trying to convey how this goes without spoiling anything, and how to gauge your interest. Your enjoyment will depend entirely on how open you are to playing what is essentially 70% a (near) pitch black experience. Your initial introduction and the buildout is very detailed, setting the stage for everything really well, and the pitch black portion is also thoughtfully constructed, avoiding almost any head bumps or injuries that anyone could sustain. The footprint of the room actually isn’t that big, but it works to the room’s advantage because there’s just enough for your senses and brain to contend with in the darkness for the duration. Your enjoyment will also depend entirely on how good your communication is with teammates. As close friends we had a great time and a lot of laughs when accidentally bumping into each other and discovering/describing weird items we came across in the darkness, trying to hand off things to one another. Consider playing with people who are maybe a bit experienced with escape rooms. I wouldn’t say the room is really “difficult” because there’s is a lot of basic logic, especially if you’re very experienced with escape rooms. It’s just made harder due to the lack of light and reliance on your other senses. You can opt to use a flashlight but it would make the experience last probably 5 minutes at most. The enjoyment is using your senses and piecing all the mystery together, and it’s done really really well. The Escape Ventures has been probably the most consistent company we’ve ever played, with some of the most high quality, thoughtful, creative and well made experiences. While this isn’t quite as awe inspiring as their other offerings, it’s still an extremely fun, novel, well designed and very entertaining escape room that’s perfect with a small group of good friends.

I can't get over how smart this room design was! One of my biggest pet peeves in escape rooms is when they try to design a room that they don't actually have the space and/or means to create and "Outage: No Vacancy" is a masterclass in how an escape room can make the most out of a limited amount of space. This room was very small BUT the gameplay was still very fun and immersive because of the unique theme. If you are looking for a room that has a super elaborate set, do one of the other rooms at "The Escape Ventures" but if you are looking for a room that will challenge your puzzle solving skills in a different way, I would definitely recommend this one!