Papa Smurf’s Magic Lab

Super Fun experience and really new tech. Really enjoyed the place.

My first projection, tabletop experience, and it was very fun. Creative and high tech.

‘Papa Smurf’s Magic Lab’ is fundamentally a projection mapping tabletop escape game. Players sit down at a table in a private, moderately decorated room for the entire duration and interact with various objects and the projections to play the game. It’s a delightfully cute experience and the flow is carefully crafted to ensure players learn the rules of the game as the complexity is slowly layered on. We thought the central mechanic was quite enjoyable!

Played almost entirely on a tabletop, this is a fun interactive activity. Not the usual escape room. I think you’d come here more for the story then for the usually thrill of an escape room. There are at least two, perhaps three, identical rooms, so we split our group between two rooms and raced each other to finish. Language: We did this in English but some of the speech was in Korean with English subtitles. You definitely need good language skills to understand some of the clues. Dislikes: Too many video cut scenes which took up a lot of time. They contributed to the story but were a bit too long and slow. Also, the system used could only cope with one thing happening at a time, so you can’t do anything else while the story cut scenes are playing.

Fully interactive digital table experience. Decent fun.