The Clock Tower

I’m surprised this room has won so many awards. The puzzles and ideas are pretty good but the room feels old and worn out. With a renovation this could be quite a good room, but when I went it felt like things weren’t well taken care of and staff didn’t care that much. There definitely are some cool ideas and moments here but it really needs some tlc. 2/5

This would’ve been great if everything were not broken when we went. It’s a really cool room with fun puzzles… if they weren’t all broken. It had to have been at least 25% of the puzzles with issues. We’d ask for clues and we’d keep getting them for things already solved, but the trigger failed. Many things ultimately manually triggered by the host and one of the last clues was “you already solved that, just reach up and behind this thing and pull it out cause it’s supposed to fall” They might have fixed things since I went in 2023, but I was pretty sad with the state of the room.

fun theme! I like clocks and I liked several of the puzzles. I will say, game play was a bit stymied by some pieces that need some love . some puzzles we did and drawer didn't open, etc.

Listen, I have done over 70 escape rooms at this point. I love them. This is the first one I will give a bad review to. The game-master was terrible and kept telling us we needed to do something else when the order would not have mattered. We entered a certain code about 10 times with them telling us we must not be doing it right until finally out loud we said exactly what we were doing and the letters we were entering as we entered them, and then the GM triggered the clue to work. You also had to have outside knowledge in our opinion. We were so frustrated by the whole thing it lost any magic of the normal escape room. We won’t ever go back to this location.

One of my favorites

Everything was a stretch, tech didn’t work and puzzles were in the room to make the room hard but had nothing to do with story. I felt a lot of the puzzles were trial and error and no clear progression from puzzle to puzzle. The props were old and warn out. I don’t understand how this room won awards. It is a shame as the other rooms at this location are fun. This was unfortunately one of the worst experiences I have had in an escape room.

Successfully escaped with 2 but with some guessing in the last puzzle. My favourite room in this location! Very cool steampunky theme and impressive mechanical set pieces. One of the puzzle reveals was wow-worthy and felt like magic! There's a lot to do in this room with a lot of variety. Definitely recommend!

We had really high hopes for this escape room. First, we were put off because we couldn't actually find the building. We Ubered to the place and the map was wrong, so we were on the wrong end of the block. This resulted in us being about 5 minutes late. When we were buzzed in and got up to the correct floor, the person doing check ins was clearly overwhelmed and was not happy we were late. We got reprimanded for almost being out of our 10 minute grace period. After that, we were told that out of the three wavers we did in advance, only one of them went through because we used the same email address for all three. When we got into the room, it was a rush to get started. I won't go into details of the puzzles, but many of the tech puzzles had to be manually bypassed (you know when you can just tell that it's a bypass and not happening from what you are doing). When we got through the first door to the second room, one of the puzzles was already solved and the door to the third room was already popped. This was very disappointing. Then, after the first ten minutes, the game master decided to start telling us what we needed to do instead of allowing us to try and figure it out. We decided it became more of a guided story than an escape room. We really liked some of the puzzles though...but there was just so much disappointment...when we got out of the room, we were rushed to the exit, a quick picture was taken and then we were given directions to show ourselves out and the GM left (after asking for a 5 star review). Overall, we were very upset with this experience. I don't believe we will be doing the other rooms here after this poor experience.