Tomb Raiders

A fine game with a few fun moments, it's nevertheless my least favorite at Lock, Clock & Peril... but it could be the theme. An Egyptian room has never wowed me, and tragically no escape owners seem to research the subject matter prior to puzzle design (which anyone moderately interested in ancient Egypt would find distracting).** I also found this room the least fun and silly out of the five rooms here, and fun and silly is where this company excels! The decor had a more "handmade" feel to it than their other games. **One example - Hieroglyphs are indeed phonetic, and it would be quite easy with just a few hours of Wikipedia'ing to create puzzles requiring transliteration of real glyphs to latin letters, but no owners seem to do that work. One glaring example: Egyptian words don't use vowels, yet most Egyptian rooms create fake glyphs to conveniently overlay over the entire English alphabet. Why not use the REAL, actual words for "Osiris" "Ra" "Horus" instead of making them up? (These words already exist!) I've never seen a room use fake Spanish or Chinese words, nor should games start doing that... MINOR SPOILERS An artifact used in one puzzle of the game is a replica of a real art piece depicting Akhenaten and Nefertiti, which I'd never seen in a game. When I brought this up with the owners, I'm not sure they knew the story behind the couple -- and so this puzzle might unintentionally have some deeper meaning than intended! (See the depiction at the top of this article, if interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarna_art)

Of the three rooms we did (A Not So Fairytale Ending and Teleporter Trials being the others), I think this was my favorite because it best delivered on its core fantasy. The space felt tomblike, and the puzzles remained (mostly) tightly themed throughout. There are lots of props to handle and manipulate, and the mostly mechanical workings of the room felt perfect for a tomb (a couple of light effects notwithstanding). The Egyptian tomb is probably one of the hoariest tropes in escape rooms, but this room executes it very well.

The only set design for an Egyptian game that was better than this was 13th gate, which says a lot about this game! And this game was sooo much more fun to experience than 13th gate. Great puzzles that flowed really well, great hinting system and tons of surprises! We loved it and I highly recommend it to anyone who is traveling on 95!! You will leave LCP in a daze after these games❤️

Absolutely loved this room! It’s easily in my top 3 of all time! The set design was stunning and totally immersive, transporting us straight into an ancient tomb adventure. Every puzzle felt purposeful and was incredibly fun to solve. This room doesn’t have any physical locks or keys and that made the experience even more fun. We tackled this as an experienced group of two and managed to get out on time. This room leans toward the more difficult side, so if you’re newer to escape rooms, you may want to bring a couple more people along. That said, it’s absolutely worth it. This is one I wish I could do again for the first time. We had a blast!

Amazing room! The staff, including the designer of the rooms, are incredibly nice and accommodating (we have done several of their rooms) Not only are the puzzles unique, there are multiple rooms to navigate. These puzzles aren’t just keys and lock boxes, they have lots of thought behind them. Paul the owner is wonderful and we can’t wait to finish all of the rooms! One of the best ways to spend a date night in Sumter, SC. If you love Indiana Jones, you will love tomb raiders.

I loved the environment for this room! The set was incredibly impressive and immersive. That being said, the puzzles were not my favorite. Even though this room is mostly linear, it wasn’t always obvious what puzzles came next and there was an excess use of hieroglyphics which felt more tedious than exciting. I would definitely recommend this room (I adored the set!) but acknowledge that it was not my favorite room at this location.

An absolute must-do! Tons of well-integrated puzzles, with several awesome twists and surprises along the way. Truly an incredible use of space that makes progressing through Tomb Raider super memorable and exciting!

It was a pretty good room! Very unique set up with the puzzles, but there were a few times when things seemed difficult for no particular reason.

A really incredible use of space. So many clever, unexpected elements! 4-5 people room!