Spymaker

Unfortunately I think this place was a waste of money. The first room was average for the rooms I’ve done, and I had a good time. The room is marketed as more difficult than most escape rooms, so we were expecting a challenge. But we weren’t expecting things to not work or take exceedingly long. There is a point in the room where you need to decode a message, and the method of decoding broke. We spent around 15 minutes trying our hardest to piece the message together, and had to have our game paused so staff could come in and look at the room. It just ruined the experience. Staff were super nice and accommodating, but our hearts just weren’t in the room after that. When linear rooms have something broken, it messes the entire experience up. And then we had another piece of the game where we had the right “code,” put it in, and it didn’t work…so we wasted another clue for them to tell us we were right, just keep trying and we would get it eventually. Just left a bad taste in our mouths. Aside from that, when we were still in the room, someone came into the room to “reset” the room. Love it when you pay to be immersed in a realistic room for someone to burst in breaking the 4th wall.

I really liked the beginning of the game and it flowed well. There was a puzzle that was broken and it really made us waste so much time. This ruined the experience for me. Even though they gave us 5 of the 15 min we wasted back, it didn’t make up for the bad experience for me. Sad, because this was rated so high and I was excited to try this one, but I couldn’t get back in the swing of the game after multiple GMs had to come in and fix our game. I’m all for tech and fancy puzzles, but only if they work. Lock and key never does me wrong lol. Also, about 15 min into our game a different GM came in to start resetting it. After she realized we were playing she left quickly. But I just feel like that should never happen lol. Immersion? Who is she, we didn’t know her for this game lol.

This game was really fun, my friends still laugh about our experience!