Black Dragon

Both the production value and the puzzles were great! Minimal staff help, which is exactly what we wanted. He was so in character too, so good! It really felt like he belonged to the set. I highly recommend this room!

This is an exceptional game. One could argue this is one of the best 385 games in the world.

The production was sooooo good! I loved the theme! The concept and the puzzles were so smart and cool! Definition you forget where you are! It so many puzzles! It's nonlinear and that is very complicated when you are smaller team to achieve all these puzzles. I feel 70 minutes is ideal for shorter groups based on the amazing number of puzzles that you have to deal with it

Loved this room- a diverse set of puzzles with some more challenging than others. It was perfect for my group of 6 - four members of our group were new to escape rooms but still had a blast and had puzzles they could tackle. Set was nice, and the Chinese elements were surprisingly accurate and made sense (my Hong Kong-native parents were impressed). Absolutely worth doing, though you’ll probably want at least one experienced member for some of the harder puzzles.

As a huge fan of the movie Bloodsport when I was in high school, I couldn’t wait to try an escape room themed around Kowloon walled city. Right off the bat, I can tell that Escape Room LA is really, really good at theming. From the first room to the alley, the details were amazing. What they also do really differently here is instead of cameras and the “voice of God,” your GM is actually in your room with you, acting as a character. I think it’s definitely an interesting spin on things. We ended up not interacting too much with him since we only needed one hint, which actually turned out to be that we solved it correctly, but just had an alignment issue. The room starts with a very cool and unique intro, that’s perfectly themed to its setting. It’s not a knock your socks moment, but it did make me smile. Once you open the alleyway there are tons of non-linear puzzles to do, though as you near the end, things get a bit more linear. I think the sweet spot for this room is about 3-4 people. In terms of the puzzles, I think everything made sense for the most part, and had a range of high tech to combo locks. There is some use of Chinese language involved, but be aware that you don’t need to speak it, and that the puzzles are designed for non-speakers, so don’t overthink things. My main knock against this room is that some of the mechanisms are very finicky. I’m not a fan of where you can “fail” a puzzle if a rectangle is flipped the wrong way, and there are a couple of those types of puzzles at play here. Overall though, my son and I, and the meetup group we were with, had a great time and managed to escape with around 9 minutes to spare with no real hints used! Definitely recommend this escape room.

Another really well designed room. Puzzles were a little better than Atlantis and set design was just as immersive. I will say there is a lot to do, and there is a lot to overlook. GM being with us was not as akward I will say, there was a level of immersion with the GM to be in the room with us.

How fun was this! Thanks so much!

This was a nice room. Lots of themed decor and very different room types. I went with a group of 3 and it was tough. The puzzles make sense for the most part but there’s just a lot to do. I think it’s doable with 3 people but you have to be good about filling in others about what you’re seeing/finding. A lot of the times we were in different rooms doing our own thing and it took time to figure out the current situation when we got the opened room that someone else was already working on. There were lots of unique puzzles and they made good use of the space. I’d recommend it to people looking for a medium difficulty. It’s probably easier if there’s more people.

Could’ve been an all timer but some things made this a good but not great room. Our starting point was unclear and we wasted some time in the pre-room when we thought it was still the pregame briefing. The actor is annoying and totally unecessary. More a flaw of the system than the GM himself. This system is just worse than the normal camera system. Best done with 4-6 people. We did with three and was a bit challenging to finish on time with the amount of time we wasted in the preroom. 7/10, but could’ve been 9.5/10 with some easy fixes.