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The Penitentiary

Mixed (33 ratings)

  • Escape room
  • IRL

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The penitentiary is known as the night stalker and is also the serial killer of the history! No matter what you hear or see, all you need to do is escape!

  • 1-12
  • 60 mins
  • Hard
  • Not scary

Ratings

All ratings (33)

Mixed

Reviews

@BaronAsInRed
BaronAsInRed

69 escape rooms

I wanted to looove this room, but merely only liked it. The major reason for this is the very evident wear and tear: evidence of prior players writing notes on top of photos, broken door triggers, wires/plugs that have clearly been stripped. So all of that was honestly very frustrating. That aside, the room itself was a good experience and intelligently laid out. The laser dodging was also cool, though easy to cheese.

Gameplay
Atmosphere

I wasn’t a fan of the music though — it felt cheesy to me haha

Customer service
Particularly interesting or different

Yes

It is clever that they have the ability to edit this for different size groups (we were a group of 4 so they only separated us into two cells, whereas had we more they could have put us into three cells to start)

Story
Difficulty

Medium

Game tech

High tech

Ideal number of players

4

Scary

Not scary

Minimum age

14

Was anything broken?

Yes

We were warned one of the grates was supposed to automatically trigger, but was broken so we should just use the honor code lol

Live actors

No

Physically active

Very

Lots of crawling

Accessibility

I would not recommend this room if you are movement impaired

Easy to find location

Yes

Parking

Limited

NYC midtown

Jun 24, 2025 | Experienced Jun 23, 2025

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pawsoffkevin

102 escape rooms

Really loved omescape in California so was hoping for a good quality room here, but unfortunately this wasn’t the case. At least half of the technology in the room was broken and had to be explained. Felt like we were walked through the room. The flow of the room didn’t make much sense. The entire space wasn’t used properly. The puzzles were meh or didn’t really make any sense. Had to continually ask for clarification. This is definitely not a high tech room.

Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Live actors

No

Mar 23, 2025

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ella0514

57 escape rooms

honestly this room was horrible, went in the summer was so hot they had not ac everything was worn out L don’t bother

Oct 23, 2024

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