Insane Asylum

Pretty good room for the experience. I don’t think the PanIQ rooms puzzles and my brain necessarily are on the same wavelength so I often find the puzzles not very intuitive for me. The room was enjoyable and unique, though! So totally worth trying.

Hated the first room. Too small for more than 3 people. Once you get to the next room it’s definitely more enjoyable

An okay room with a good mix of locks and some tech. The lighting does make it a little challenging but it does warn you about that beforehand. Even though we found ourselves stuck at a few points, a few hints were enough to get us by. Definitely a spooky vibe but nothing scary.

The experienced focused on the story of a man in an insane asylum who knows he is fine but is still being held and treated with antipsychotics. You must find the four medicines needing to help him. The guards/scientists have been distracted by a break-in on the other side of the building. You have one hour to find the meds. The room was immersive with sound effects and music to fill in the emptiness. The hint system was a unique experience than what I’ve had before and I really enjoyed it and think it worked really well. I don’t have much of any complains for this room as it all fit together and made sense.

Our favorite room at this location! Neat set and puzzles flowed well. Our GM Ili was great!

The premise of this room is that you’ve been locked in a padded cell by a team of scientists who are keeping you drugged. Theres been a security breach and you have an hour to get the cure to your drugs and escape. The set for this room was really well done. It was really creepy, but was just shy of scary. There was no jump scares or things that would make you squeamish. The first room you’re in has a singular puzzle that must be completed to unlock the second room. The puzzle requires a bit of a leap in logic to get the code to the door and we spent the full five minutes on this puzzle before Paniq would allow us to have a clue. This was pretty frustrating - would be nice if there were more puzzles to work on or if it was more obvious what the lock code actually was. The puzzles in the rest of the rooms varied - there was one fun trip that we really enjoyed (no spoilers). Our team wasted a good bit of time trying to move an item that we believed was also a clue based on the previous puzzle that ended up being nothing (not Paniq’s fault, but we still escaped with a decent amount of time left despite that). The lighting in the last room was annoying - it was on a timer so every other minute or so you were in complete darkness and then it was flickering. Added to the creepy vibe but difficult to be able to see what we were working on. We were missing a clue at the end and ended up doing basically every sequence of the one we were missing to get out, but after we asked where it was, it was something I think others might be able to get - although it wasn’t entirely obvious (although the best puzzles in rooms aren’t always entirely obvious). This was a pretty average room for me - I really liked the set design, but I think the story flow and puzzles could use some work.

Rating: 3/5 Very average room, but I still liked it. The set looked good enough and was appropriately creepy, it wasn't just a single room. Decent variety of puzzles with some tech, physical manipulation, and padlocks. Though at least 1-2 didn't quite make sense to us. It was spooky but no real jumps scares. There was little to no story and the ending was kind of anti-climactic. The biggest downside is the lighting is too dark and the strobe lights are really annoying. GM was friendly and helpful. We played as a team of 5 enthusiasts and it was too many, I personally didn't have anything to do for at least 15 minutes and we still finished with 10+ min left. I'd recommend 2-3 enthusiasts.