Timeliner: Train Through Time

We played this game with four strangers because TEG will fill the room unless you by it out or no one else signs up. It felt pretty crowded with six people in the room, so I often had to stand around because there was either nothing for me to do or nowhere else for me to stand. I think this experience should be capped at four people to make it the most enjoyable for all participants.

It's a fun, pretty normal escape room. Nothing that will probably make you feel super immersed or say wow, but it's the general kind of good quality puzzling and pattern-recognition that The Escape Game rooms generally are. If you've played other rooms from The Escape Game, it'll probably make it much easier to solve this room since the way the puzzles are written and structured is somewhat similar.

Time travel train is a great concept, but the execution could’ve been better. Many (most?) time periods you “travel” to are just screens in the same room. One puzzle/sequence was confusing/ambiguous and dragged on too long. Still fun overall. 3/5.

Very fun. Attention to details is needed!

with a larger space and unlimited production budget, this could be the sickest room. i crave a little more WOW when it comes to time travel. regardless, it was a fun low stress time. great for smallllll groups

8/10 overall for the experience, difficulty, and cohesive storyline. I liked how there were a variety of puzzles that all tied into the story rather than the room being a bunch of lock and combination matching puzzles.

I’ve got a love/lukewarm relationship with Escape the Game. They’re all very proficient, but for the most part, you’re in a rectangular room doing pattern recognition for an hour. It’s not a spoiler to say in time travelers, you’re going to travel in time. The problem it’s they put 0 effort into immersion. When you arrive to a new place in time, you’re walking through a door with a few posters on the wall. Like an honest to god, standard size door. With posters. There’s some cool elements in there too but you’ll never feel like you’re transported somewhere else. You’ll feel like you’re in midtown, in a basement closet, doing mostly fun puzzles with friends and truly great staff. And that’s good enough.

6.8/10 We had high hopes for Timeliner: Train Through Time knowing how good The Escape Game’s rooms usually are. Although this was still a good room, we were a bit let down with it overall. This room is definitely on the easier side with really only one puzzle that had us stumped for a bit, but did make sense after we got a hint. We felt the biggest problem with this room was that they tried fitting way too much into it and most of it felt oversaturated. It felt as if they chose quantity over quality. We loved the idea of being able to time travel to different places, but other than the final room, we didn’t really feel any “Wow” moments during our experience. As mentioned before, this is not a bad room whatsoever, but we would definitely recommend other rooms from The Escape Game over this one.

Enjoyed the overall theming though the endgame was by far my favorite part. The time travel theme felt fresh and unique. As always with the Escape Game the staff was wonderful and attentive. The theming was on point and wonderfully excited.