Jurassic Outpost

Jurassic Outpost was our final room at 60 to Escape Woodfield we needed to experience, and it was solid as usual. Jurassic played most similarly to Magic Heist, and there were little easter eggs to many of their other rooms and the original JP movie, which made searching fun. Jurassic is the hardest room at the Woodfield location, with a good amount of puzzles to work through, but we did not panic, finishing with just under 1 minute. Many puzzles were similar to the Woodfield location’s other rooms (which was fine) and we really enjoyed the skeeball puzzle. Although there were a lot of props and puzzles, the flow of the room was good as we seemed to always know what to work on next. There was lots of tech in the room and you had to pay attention to what you uncovered after completing a puzzle, as things sometimes open up slowly/softly. The final sequence in the room delivered a cool experience. Customer Service at Woodfield continued to be fantastic and our GM (Caroline) had great energy and provided us 2 nudges at just the right time, but we really did not need much assistance. I appreciate knowing that your GM at the Woodfield location will always be actively monitoring your room, as they are very quick to deliver a clue when you ask. Looking forward to experiencing the Woodfield location’s new room opening up in late 2025 or early 2026

A solid game from 60 to Escape, great flow and multilinear. A bit on the difficult side. Fun story beats, clean gameplay and cinematics. Definitely worth the play!!

There's a lot of promise to this game, but the implementation is a letdown. There were some things I liked: Dinosaur themes are neat, my inner child was pleased. The finale was neat - I saw it coming, but it was still executed nicely. The set is great to look at, and the room feels dense with things to do and explore. The biggest flaw with this room is (lack of) feedback: both when something happens and when something's not happening. There was a point in the game when we did the right thing and didn't realize anything had triggered/changed, so kept trying to do it (the GM eventually had to point it out to us). There was a point in the game when we were doing the right thing but not quite in the way the game wanted, but we didn't realize our input wasn't being read at all so kept trying to do it. Both failure modes are frustrating -- you can't tell if stuff is working but you haven't noticed, stuff isn't working because your input is being parsed differently than what you think, or stuff isn't working because you're totally on the wrong path. I thought the room was unnecessarily dim. Dimness might make sense in a horror room or to spotlight particular parts of the set, but I don't enjoy squinting to make out details - darkness shouldn't be a puzzle. Because of all this, Jurassic Outpost was my least favorite of the games at 60 to Escape Schaumburg. It's a shame, because some small tweaks would make it much more enjoyable.

Rating: 3.5/5 - Enjoyable room, but there are better rooms at 60 to Escape. Pros: ➕ The set was detailed and fairly immersive with good use of lighting/sound ➕ Had easter eggs from their other rooms and Jurassic Park ➕ Mostly tech based puzzles with only a couple of padlocks, but they were used where appropriate ➕ Strong theming, almost everything was dino related ➕ Cool ending with something I've yet to see in the other 150+ rooms I've done ➕ They let you choose the ending to the story ➕ More than 1 room to explore ➕ GM was friendly and helpful Could be better: ➖ No animatronics like in some of their other rooms (they set the bar too high for themselves 😂) ➖ I didn't love the puzzles, nothing stood out to me as particularly interesting or fun (but nothing bad either). They tend to do a lot of "figure out the order or "put in the right position" type puzzles. ➖ Too many puzzles/items are available before you have everything to solve them, this leads to a lot of wasted time. The GM warned us about some of it though. It's playable as a team of two, I'd recommend 3-4. It feels like one of their more difficult rooms. My ranking of 60 to Escape rooms (all locations) so far starting with my favorite. 1. Lockbuster Video ❤️ 2. Cheesie's Pizza Party ❤️ 3. Invasion ❤️ 4. Mystery Manor ❤️ 5. Hidden Temple ❤️ 6. Blast From The Past 👍 7. Jurassic Outpost 👍 8. Arctic Expedition 👍 9. Magic Heist 👍

Cute theming and a great room overall. Ranked as their hardest room online but is certainly not the most difficult by our experience. It was smaller than expected but had fun theming and a good storyline. Fun puzzles albeit a bit straightforward for experienced players.

My least favorite room here, but still a good experience if you’re a Dino fan!

Fun, yet challenging room. The set design is awesome. I would rate this more of an 8 for difficulty, rather than the 9 they gave it. Overall a fun room with some interesting puzzles.

Great room! Fun theming, difficult but satisfying puzzles. We had about 10 minutes to spare as a team of 2 with a lot of experience. Really fun “wow” moment at the end! Not a super big space physically so I’d recommend a smaller group for that reason.

Jurassic Outpost was another extremely solid and fun game from 60 to Escape. The theming was on point, the decor and lighting was extremely well done, and the puzzles were a perfect combination of challenging but not unfair - our group had some incredible flow throughout the entire game. The central narrative is also kinda interesting, and plenty of Easter eggs around the room give the whole thing life. A great room to play if you are in the Schaumburg area!

This is a fantastic room. Themeing is awesome. High tech and games are very appropriate for the room. My family of 4 is very experienced— 50+ games and this one took us 52 minutes to escape— the longest it’s taken us in a long time. The puzzles were challenging but totally doable. Really enjoyed it. We’ll be back to do more rooms there.