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Can you solve literature’s most famous crime? You are world-renowned Detective Hercule Poirot, aboard the famous Orient Express and have just solved the murder of Mr Ratchet, a man found stabbed to death in his cabin after being proved guilty of abducting and killing a young child - Daisy Armstrong - the daughter of a WW1 hero. However, just as you are preparing to deliver your verdict, you find out about a more deadly plan. From earlier investigations, you’re able to narrow down six suspects, but now, you must find the killer and repair the brake lines to stop the train before it speeds off the railway. Failure means certain death for all, while success means solving the most famous crime in history, and saving everyone aboard. Will you gather the evidence and catch the murderer before it’s too late?
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This was my first ever escape room. With it being the most difficult room it wasn’t insanely difficult in my opinion after we got the hang of how it flowed. I really enjoyed the theme and all props worked well
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49 escape rooms
This is probably one of the most difficult escape rooms I have ever done and overall did not enjoy this room. My enjoyment is directly tied to Escapology employees seemingly not paying attention to what we were doing. Our gamemaster asked us if we wanted free clues, we said "No, but if we are getting behind just let us know" so that we know to ask for one if we want to. She agreed to this and well they just never did this, so we thought we were doing fine, then all of a sudden they started sending us multiple clues back to back to back (over the course of 5 minutes). As someone who works at an escape room this is a clear sign that we were REAALLLLYYY far behind and they were just trying to get us to a certain point, which felt frustrating because for some puzzles we didn't even get to attempt them before being rushed to the next part. A few puzzles we were on the right track, doing it right, but a clue was sent to seemingly get us moving. We definitely were supposed to be at a certain point 20 minutes ago and they weren't paying attention to get us on the right track earlier. A lot of puzzles involve at least 3 elements and it was overwhelming at points. The final puzzle did not work when we did the correct order. I give the employees credit that they did give us extra time and even paused our time so we could complete (once again it seemed like they knew that we struggled for far too long and were trying to make sure we at least had a good experience). We probably spent 5 minutes on the final puzzle before it eventually worked. We mentioned it to the worker and she said "yeah it's finnicky", not her fault, but shows it's a known issue. Very frustrating especially for the final puzzle of the room!
The gameplay of the first room doesn't flow at all, in my opinion. As the room goes on the flow does get better, but the first room is debilitatingly difficult compared to the rest of the room.
This room may be Escapology in Orland Park's best room visually. It really does feel like you are in a train. Love the moving windows.
The staff was overall friendly. I will say that we did multiple rooms and the same day. Once we finished the first room, the staff didn't say much to us (they knew we had multiple rooms). We got out early so we knew we would have to wait, but the staff didn't talk or acknowledge us for the full hour of waiting. it was clear that the previous Orient Express Group was running behind and that this was going to push back our time. I would've liked if they communicated to us at some point in the hour we waited. After waiting a full hour, a gamemaster finally acknowledged us and said that they needed to reset the room and they would get us started. They eventually got us started 10 minutes after our room was supposed to start. Felt frustrating that we got punished for a late group when we were early. Like mentioned in my overall review, it didn't seem like our gamemasters were paying attention to what were doing, so that's always a frustrating experience.
Yes
Expert
High tech
4
Not scary
20
Yes
The final puzzle just straight open wasn't working for a solid 5 minutes. Some of the props are worn and important things are difficult to see.
No
Not at all
Lots of color, for the colorblind folk
Yes
Easy
529 escape rooms
I’m a fan of Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot, and Murder on the Orient Express (both the book and the movie), so I’m a little biased into liking this room. However, it did also have its issues. My favorite part is downright solving the mystery, and as a huge mystery buff, I loved the logic puzzles involved in solving this case (which by the way is not the same case as the book proper). But some of the puzzles leading before it are annoying to say the least. One of the puzzles took us about 20 minutes, just because we couldn’t completely understand what exactly the room wanted us to do. We tried multiple ways until we realized we did it right the first way and just mixed up 2 numbers because of the vagueness of the puzzle itself. It would have been nice to have nudges for this one, which we said were ok beforehand. Instead we had to press the hint button several times while the GM tried to figure out what part we needed help with. Had we not been train wrecked by these 1st few puzzles, I would have much more enjoyed the mystery to come and would have had more time to solve it. Set wise, the first room was fun with a video of the outside as the train chugs along. The further in you go, the less it resembles an actual train. Much of the decorations, even important clues, are cheap paper wall stickers, which are disappointing with regards to immersion. I still would say this train ride is fun for mystery buffs and fans of the source material, but other less-enthused players may not even want to get a ticket. I much prefer this location’s Scooby Doo escape room for mystery fun.
No
Expert
High tech
Not scary
Maybe one creepy moment, but not really
Yes
Some puzzles seemed finicky
No
Not at all
Yes
Easy
C
50 escape rooms
We really want to like this because we are fans of Agatha Christie. The set design was nice in the first room, but the game play was awful. It is very linear from the start so a group would not have fun. We made it to the end and the last puzzle, which just turned into a time waster matching game. A lot of the puzzles made no sense or were just not fun to solve at all.
No
Hard
Mechanical
2
Not scary
20
No
No
Not at all
Yes
Easy
156 escape rooms
We loved the book so we were excited to check this escape room out! Of course as luck would have it, we picked the absolute hardest room at this company as our first visit here. 😖 It was fun nevertheless! Very hard, but we felt rusty not having done an escape room in a long time. 😅 We really appreciated the game masters giving us a few extra minutes to finish the room! 🙏🏼 We’ll definitely be back for the other rooms! Thank you!
We loved the book so this was fun!
We appreciated the game masters giving us a few extra minutes to let us finish the room! Sorry we were a bit rusty! 🙏🏼
Yes
Hard
Mechanical
3
Not scary
No
Some mechanisms required a bit of jiggling!
No
Not at all
Yes
Easy
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