Asylum

Amazong escaperoom for a very long time felt like the introductory room system. I reccomended it to new players as the themes and puzzles were rather simple. We were talking three relatively new people with us, so we wanted a simpler room. To my surprise, the Asylum was a lot more than expected. While the puzzled were linear, and the pink dots are still around, the room was excellently themed and had more than a few interesting twists and turns. I would highly reccomend it, but even with a rating for 1 to 6 people I would limit it to 4, just for easy of mobility.... Oh and take at least 1 small person.

The bus aspect was really cool, it definitely added to the immersion on that front. It’s pretty narrow and cramped so less people would probably work better. The puzzles themselves were pretty standard, nothing that was very difficult but nothing I haven’t seen similar before. One of their hardest was right at the end and it was a physical puzzle which almost cost us the win. The game master was nice, but one downside to the room is they cannot see you very well (because it’s a bus and many locks are floor level) so one of our clues we received answers for several things we already solved before getting to the puzzle we actually needed which are up time. Another downside to being in the bus was there were many things that couldn’t open and those that did, we had to close immediately so we could actually walk through the area so we had to keep double checking what we actually opened. The room also required outside knowledge which is always a little disappointing, even when you have that knowledge. A couple of fun effects, although not as scary as I would have hoped and it seemed when the game master mentioned jump scares. Really a unique aspect to be on an actual bus for the room.

Immersive and lots of fun. Only downside was one puzzle was ridiculously hard. Gamemaster told us it usually takes people 15 minutes to do the one puzzle which seems to me like it’s time to change that. Besides that great room