Carter's Haberdashery And The Curse Of The Ancient Gold

This room is sublimely decorated at the very start. The Haberdashery looks right out of a movie set. Large scale puzzles were very satisfying to solve.

The room design and tech were on par with other escape rooms. It felt like some puzzles had red herrings, but we worked through them quickly enough. The main highlight for me was the staff. Nancy, the owner, was kind enough to work with me on certain adjustments for a marriage proposal. Needless to say, between her and our GM Dannie, I was able to pop the question without a hitch. They even set up a congratulations banner for us!

Not a super memorable room for me honestly.

This room was very well themed and had a good story line. The puzzles were not too challenging but there was plenty to do for our group of 5.

Good build and momentum. Definitely worth playing, no complaints.

We traveled an hour to play and were severely disappointed by the room. There is no indication of where to start, first off. I’m normally totally fine with this if it’s a non linear room, however, this wasn’t that. After they clearly tell us not to use excessive force in the room, you then have to pull somewhat decently to get things off the wall to use for the first puzzle. This caused us to use a lot of time since we try not to ask for too much help (I’m not above clues, but I shouldn’t be using a clue for that). Some of the technology didn’t function correctly either. All in all, I couldn’t even enjoy the design of the room, which was beautiful, because the puzzles were infuriating. The design was beautiful, but some of the props, mainly the technology, didn’t function well/properly. This was a time consuming puzzle and for it not to work caused a lot of time to be wasted. Staff was nice but did absolutely nothing when we told them we didn’t enjoy the room. Seemed like they just wanted us out as quickly as possible. We weren’t asking for anything, by the way, but it would’ve been nice to pass on some frustrations with the company so they could potentially do something about it. I really wanted to like this room, but there’s no way.

Super fun, very surprising, the puzzles were unique and pretty challenging, and BEAUTIFUL set.

I enjoyed the experience of the room. However, none of the puzzles felt overwhelmingly hard. The story itself was also slightly confusing, but the rooms were well themed.

CHATCOTAG was a game with incredible set design. The rooms were all beautifully detailed from top to bottom, and totally sold the Indiana Jones story from beginning to end. However, the rooms didn’t feel as full of puzzles as I wanted, and the puzzles that were there felt a little too simplistic. There were a few good ones, including one really fun communication puzzle, but by the time the room ended I was left wanting more (especially since the ending was incredibly abrupt, and I don’t think anyone expected that we were solving the last puzzle). This is a game I would recommend to smaller groups and people who want to see some really cool spaces, and who are ok with more of an experience and less of a puzzle adventure.

First, our game master was amazing! She did an awesome job and that was the best part of the experience. The game was very expansive and had great theming but it definitely was a challenge to complete with just two people. We got stuck a few times because some things just didn’t make sense to us or sometimes something would get revealed and we didn’t hear or see it.