Yokai Izakaya

The immersiveness and atmosphere of the room was great! Big step up from City of Ashes, not gonna lie. We had 5 people in the room and I would not recommend - abit too cramped for 5. Ideally 2 or 3. I cheated a bit because I know mandarin, and kanji overlaps a little bit so I shaved off about 2 minutes from what it would've been. The room itself was fun, everything made sense, and nothing deterred us too much. Not much red herrings which I appreciated. Overall, fun! Best design at the place and it's not particularly hard at all so I wish I went with less people.

This was our first time playing a room at Mystic Escape and they certainly did not disappoint! As one of the newer escape rooms in Brisbane, stakes are always high but Yokai Izakaya really surpassed our expectations as an incredibly creative and unique concept. Drawing inspiration from Japanese izakaya culture with supernatural elements, the storyline was intriguing and developed throughout. The puzzles themselves we found to be quite straightforward, and our host was extremely helpful and friendly before and during the game. Even though some of them require translating Japanese, the room was still very enjoyable for the native Japanese speaker in our group. We will definitely be back to play the other two rooms - thank you Mystic Escape!

I loved it. Our host was awesome. Super friendly. I really appreciated the explanations of the room after we escaped. You could tell there was a lot of thought put into the puzzles and the story flow of the room. The details of the puzzles were great. It was really cool how almost everything meant something. It was great that I played with really smart and sharp friends.

A spooky room with a delightful Japanese restaurant theme, the game slowly introduces the supernatural elements whilst offering up a run of enjoyable thematic puzzles along the way. ‘Yokai Izakaya’ stands out with its unique use of Japanese. Rather than deciphering symbols or ciphers, the game leans into its theming and enables players to translate Japanese hiragana and kanji. Without giving anything specific away, the choices players make in the game have some impact on the ending and it’s exciting to see escape rooms exploring player agency.

Really liked the high tec puzzles and the themes. Great story based room!

Room was fun, not a favourite unfortunately Theme was very fun but most of the energy was given in the first and kinda died in room too

Interesting set up and theme. Tricky as the language was in Japanese