The City of AshesThe City of Ashes
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The City of Ashes

Mostly positive (70 ratings)

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Welcome to the City of Ashes. Population: none. Your road trip went south when you crashed outside of a small town. You could tell right away that something was wrong. The fog is thick and you can’t go back the way that you came. The sound of screeching tires and rattling metal follows you everywhere, but you can’t find any other people. Yet somehow, you know you are not alone.

  • 2-8
  • 60 mins
  • Spooky

Ratings

All ratings (70)

Mostly positive

Gameplay
Mostly positive
Atmosphere
Very positive
Customer service
Mostly positive

Reviews

@dimitrash
dimitrash

142 escape rooms

loved the puzzles and scary ambiance!! this game is decently challenging, but the puzzles and concept were very original. we are definitely coming back here next time we visit brooklyn

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Aug 17, 2025 | Experienced Aug 17, 2025
@escapereb
escapereb

25 escape rooms

𓆜𓋘𓄁 𓊛𓇙𓋸𓌤𓌥 𓌦 𓅐𓆢 𓆣 𓀉𓆤 𓆥 𓅑𓆘 𓆙 𓅒𓄙 𓄚 𓄛 𓅓𓃺 𓃻 𓅔 𓅕 𓃕 𓃖 𓃗 𓎷 𓄁𓎸𓅖 𓅽 𓅾 𓅿𓅗 𓅘 𓇆 𓇇𓅙 𓅚 𓁵 𓁶𓂵 𓂶𓃝𓋲 𓋳𓀬 𓅛𓁃 𓂺𓅜 �𓅝𓃄 �𓄁𓅞𓂙 𓅟𓂿 𓆜𓋘𓄁 𓊛𓇙𓋸𓌤𓌥 𓌦 𓅐𓆢 𓆣 𓀉𓆤 𓆥 𓅑𓆘 𓆙 𓅒𓄙 𓄚 𓄛 𓅓𓃺 𓃻 𓅔 𓅕 𓃕 𓃖 𓃗 𓎷 𓄁𓎸𓅖 𓅽 𓅾 𓅿𓅗 𓅘 𓇆 𓇇𓅙 𓅚 𓁵 𓁶𓂵 𓂶𓃝𓋲 𓋳𓀬 𓅛𓁃 𓂺𓅜 𓂨𓅝𓃄 𓄁𓅞𓂙 𓅟𓂿

May 5, 2025
@TriniJanel
TriniJanel

39 escape rooms

Fun with a splash of spooky and creepy, very dark, with - few jump scares!

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Gameplay

Fun and engaging

Atmosphere

Creepy and dark

Customer service

Great customer service from Jeffrey!

Was anything broken?

No

Oct 12, 2024 | Experienced Oct 12, 2024

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wasunakagawa

57 escape rooms

Adored the Silent Hill vibe and had a few scary moments! The puzzles were fun and engaging

Aug 22, 2024

K

Kari

80 escape rooms

I thought this was a terrible room. The puzzles were arbitrary and so were their solutions. They tried to make it spooky by being dark, but this was way over the top. In addition, some of the sound pieces to the puzzles were broken and the game host was arguing with me they weren't. Honestly, this room just was a miss, the host was bad. She didn't have a pulse on the room and was nowhere to be found when you needed a clue or something wasn't working.

Jul 7, 2024

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fantasticfallacy

24 escape rooms

Expect jumpscares! I enjoyed the various aspects of this room, and how the horror elements were weaved into gameplay. The puzzles were largely fair and flowed well.

Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Particularly interesting or different

Yes

Story
Difficulty

Medium

Game tech

Mechanical

Ideal number of players

4

Certain rooms can feel tight

Scary

Spooky

Minimum age

15

Was anything broken?

No

Live actors

No

Physically active

Somewhat

Accessibility

There is a moment where stepping up is required

Easy to find location

Yes

Jun 24, 2024
@madiescaped
madiescaped

46 escape rooms

I said I loved this room because NYC is hurting for good escape rooms and THIS was one of the first times in the city I left not thinking it was a waste of money! I had been looking for a scary escape room without live actors and this was the perfect amount of scary but not so scary that you can’t focus on the puzzles. Also there were a lot of rooms and really fun surprises. Some of the puzzles seemed worn down but overall I had a great time!

Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Difficulty

Medium

May 25, 2024 | Experienced May 21, 2024
@Furies75
Furies75

46 escape rooms

We were a team of 2 solving this. This room was very basic, good theme, a little on the scary side. It was pretty dark, so be warned. Clues were pretty basic, this was a basic escape room. We got out with about 18 mins to spare.

Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Story
May 11, 2024 | Experienced May 11, 2024

M

MrDanvers

4 escape rooms

This was fun and I liked the setup but some of the features were a bit worn as mentioned in other reviews. One jump-scare in particular is quite ingenious. Not very hard.

Dec 28, 2023
@ferdevega
ferdevega

39 escape rooms

The room was heavily influenced by silent hill. Horror themed and immersive. That was good. However, gameplay wise the game was bad - the game master had to enter the room 3 times because of malfunctions or badly designed tasks. Also- there was no timer in the room so you were basically clueless of how much time had elapsed. Ultimately it did not live up to expectations.

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Gameplay

Game master had to come into the room 3 times because of gameplay malfunction and bad game design. Very immersive breaking unfortunately.

Atmosphere

Atmosphere was great - horror themed and immersive. Very dark!

Customer service
Particularly interesting or different

Yes

Story
Difficulty

Hard

Game tech

Mechanical

Ideal number of players

3

Scary

Spooky

Was anything broken?

Yes

Live actors

No

Physically active

Not at all

Easy to find location

Yes

Jan 1, 2023 | Experienced Jan 1, 2023

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Editorial

  • I can comfortably recommend that you play any of their other offerings ahead of this one... Skip it.

    Room Escape Artist
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