Dracula

I was initially hesitant to try this room after reading some reviews, but I’m glad we gave it a chance. Dracula’s first room layout is somewhat similar to the opening room of their ‘Jack the Ripper’ experience, but the puzzles, gameplay, and subsequent rooms in the Dracula game offer a unique and engaging challenge. This non-linear room is primarily based on word puzzles, and there’s no crawling or climbing required. While it may not have the physical activity we love, the creativity and complexity of the puzzles more than made up for it. Overall, this was an excellent and thoroughly enjoyable room.

Another disappointing newer room from Lockbuster lacking logical puzzle flow, with uninspired or random solutions and unintentional red herrings. The staff described these red herrings as "oh no, that's just decoration", but these decorations conflicted with actual solutions to puzzles and seemed to be remnants of abandoned puzzles. Using the same floor plan as Jack the Ripper, this game feels oddly familiar with similarly beautiful set design and similarly bad flow, though, unlike Jack the Ripper, this lacks any standout redeeming puzzle. While this provides more playtime than the overly short Jack the Ripper, most of that added playtime will be trying to figure out what the heck to do next and, in our case, waving wildly at the camera hoping someone will explain where to move next... The best rooms at Lockbusters remain their earliest: Bank Heist and Chopper Down. Sad to see that as the company expands, puzzle design is falling to the point where it's a surprise such varying quality can be found under one roof. This game definitely needs a rework and more beta testing, ASAP.

This was an amazing new room! Classic Lockbuster design with beautiful scenic and innovative storytelling. It’s a little challenging to remember what the zodiac signs look like for us non-astrology folks, but we still scraped by with two players just under time. Not too spooky, not too dark, not too hard. Highly recommended.