The Istanbul Gambit

The Istanbul Gambit

Very positive (96 ratings)

  • Escape room
  • IRL

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Anton Semenov, leader of the infamous international criminal syndicate Red November has been captured entering Istanbul. Under interrogation, Anton has revealed the location of his organization's base of operations, an old Soviet-era bunker, deep in enemy territory. Despite Anton's capture, we believe a deadly attack by Red November is already in the works. Time is critical, and your team of CIA field agents will be inserted into Red November's hidden bunker immediately.

  • 2-10
  • 60 mins
  • Medium
  • Not scary

Awards

Ratings

All ratings (96)

Very positive

Gameplay
Very positive
Atmosphere
Very positive
Customer service
Mixed

Reviews

r

rmill020

28 escape rooms

While not quite as good as the pirate room at Enigma, this was still a really fun room! We were kept busy and enjoyed the variety of locks and clues.

Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Scary

Not scary

Jun 8, 2025 | Experienced Jun 8, 2025
@Squirtlehudgins
Squirtlehudgins

197 escape rooms

Fun room but not really my theme as it takes place in a bunker. There is a bonus puzzle you can solve once you can escape the bunker but there didn’t seem to be any special thing we got for doing so. The game master was fairly terrible, ngl. He came in after we finished with about 15 min left on our time and didn’t really congratulate us or anything. He was super monotone during the entire experience and seemed like he didn’t want to be there. (Still better than the GM we got for the game before who was just rude) 😭

Nov 19, 2024 | Experienced Nov 19, 2024

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debmiedema

75 escape rooms

Very fun puzzle. Good production quality. Lots of attention to detail.

Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Story
Difficulty

Medium

Game tech

Mechanical

Ideal number of players

6

Scary

Not scary

Minimum age

8

Was anything broken?

No

Live actors

No

Physically active

Not at all

Easy to find location

Yes

In the Whirlyball building, inside and to the right.

Parking

Easy

May 22, 2024
@katiedew02
katiedew02

29 escape rooms

Enigma escape rooms are incredible. The story was amazing and was so interactive. Things just kept happening and it was so fun. I was one of the first groups of 2 people to escape.

May 14, 2024
@kaileemartens
kaileemartens

73 escape rooms

Secret agent rooms are so common, and the story of this room doesn’t offer anything particularly interesting to the genre. But the gameplay itself was interesting and enjoyable. There’s a subplot going on the whole time with optional puzzles you don’t have to solve to win, which is a pretty cool aspect.

Apr 14, 2024
@marenkae
marenkae

63 escape rooms

This particular theme for an escape room is pretty overdone in my opinion and it's not my favorite. That being said, I still think this is a really high quality room. The prop design is extremely impressive and while there were some elements I've seen multiple times in similar rooms, there were still some others that were unique and interesting. Bottom line is that if you aren't interested in this room based on the theme, I think it's still worth playing. Enigma Adventures has really special rooms. And if you ARE interested in this room based on the theme then you simply cannot miss it.

Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Particularly interesting or different

No

Story

Overall story was fine but one really neat thing about this room is that it gives you optional story objectives to solve. I don't think I've played a room like that before!

Difficulty

Hard

Game tech

High tech

Ideal number of players

5

Scary

Not scary

Minimum age

12

Lots of reading and some tricky puzzles so I think younger kids could play but it wouldn't be well suited for them.

Was anything broken?

No

Live actors

No

Physically active

Somewhat

A couple moments require crawling/ducking.

Accessibility

I believe at least one puzzle uses sound. Must have at least one player who can crawl.

Easy to find location

Yes

Parking

Easy

Apr 13, 2024 | Experienced Apr 13, 2024

R

RobbMorris

84 escape rooms

This is a great room. Lots of good puzzles, good story.

Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Particularly interesting or different

Yes

Jan 2, 2024

C

Clockstoppers

47 escape rooms

an amazing room, one of the more difficult in the area. beautiful and well designed with a well done story. do this room

Nov 15, 2023

p

petersweiners

54 escape rooms

Boring at first but was super fun at the end! Lots of papers to manage though which I am not a fan of

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Physically active

Very

lasers

Physically active

Very

lasers

Physically active

Very

lasers

Physically active

Very

lasers

Physically active

Very

lasers

Jul 9, 2023 | Experienced Jul 6, 2023
@Dl0399
Dl0399

61 escape rooms

Very surprising and well made room. We werent expecting much with how dead whirlyball was, but dont let that fool you. This room was amazing and the biggest sleeper escape room ive done.

Gameplay
Atmosphere
Parking

Easy

Jul 9, 2023 | Experienced Jul 6, 2023

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