The Bayou: The Legend of the Midnight Raven

This was a fun room! Bayou was my 48th escape room (43W - 5L) but I still consider myself a bit of a novice - mostly because I ride the coattails of my teammate, Baby Squirrel. :) I played with four other teammates with similar statistics ranging in age from 10 to 59 years. We consider this room to be on the hard side of medium difficulty, mostly because of the number of puzzles needed to be solved. The room was mostly non-linear so everyone had something to work on. In fact, after we escaped the room, we went back inside so people could explain what they did on their puzzles while I was working on another one. The room decorations and props were impressive and immersive. The puzzles were a mixture of high tech and mechanical (lock & key), but maybe slightly more tech-y. Everything was in working condition and the story flowed very well from the intro video.

The immersion and decoration going in was well done but almost all the puzzles/locks were broken and the GM had to unlock manually after watching us struggle when we had the correct answer or the puzzle wouldn’t start to give us the clue. The clue giving mechanism was also hard to deal with.

Very well themed room. This room is insanely difficult so not for someone who's never done an escape room before. We had a lot of technical difficulties during our visit that hindered our progression in some areas but if those are fixed I say rhe room is incredibly solid!

I really liked the first half in this game. The second half of the game got confusing and difficult

The Bayou was an awesome experience. The writer really created a whole backstory to this room (and others). Felt more like you were stepping into just one chapter in a larger story. Puzzles were challenging, but attainable. Thought 4 was a perfect number for the room.

This room has incredible ambiance! It’s clear that the game designer is passionate about what he does and is very talented. I thoroughly enjoyed this room and would highly recommend it!

You can tell the owner loves the stories behind his rooms, the story is VERY in depth and intricate. The opening video itself was a good 5 minutes, might have been less but if you love escape rooms for the story of the room, this is your place to be! I saw a lot of people review that its a lot of reading, it can be but if you don’t want to do all the reading theres pretty blatant context clues your looking for so its really not much reading, more skimming. Decor and immersion were good in this room! Pretty average as far as looks wise goes. As well as the first part of this room is more completing tasks that are asked of you rather than looking for puzzles, which we enjoyed it just got a little confusing at times, along with the hint system can be a little confusing. We were able to escape with 2 of us with 30 seconds to spare!

I enjoyed this lengthier 90-minute escape room. We played with 2 people and escaped, so probably wouldn’t be too challenging with a larger group than that who is good at escape rooms.

Quite a cool, very swampy set. A lot of patience is needed since you need to really listen into the speaking portions. Plenty of puzzles and only complaint was that some of the mechanics malfunctioned. This one is a solid medium.