
ProfessorEnigma
30 escape rooms
No way to sugar coat this one, this room was awful. I tend to stay away from Escapology in general, cause they're mass produced franchise stuff anyway, but this is the worst one I've done here. One of my worst of all time. Most of the activities were not puzzles. Which can be fun, not every activity in an escape room has to be a puzzle, but they should at least be fun, original, creative, or enjoyable in some way. These ones were just boring. There wasn't enough for multiple people to be doing most of the time. Nothing was clever or unique. The whole draw of this was the Batman theme. But every room was so dang loud we couldn't hear any of the "plot" elements that were conveyed through dialogue over the speakers. So that fell extremely flat. We got to the final room in under 20 minutes, then spent 15 minutes each on the two final puzzles, because they were so poorly designed. There is no feedback to the players, so there's some major guess work on when and how to input your solved answer. And **minor spoiler** the final puzzle has an element with colors, but the lights in the room are colored, so it's hard to see what color anything really is, or even figure out that color should be used here. Just awful. Stay away from this one at all cost.
Gameplay
Clunky, lots of guess work. Just bad
Atmosphere
Escapology has budget to spend on rooms. So things look flashy. But DID NOT save this room.
Customer service
GM was nice, but didn't pay any attention while were playing to be able to provide relevant assistance.
Particularly interesting or different
No
Stock standard puzzles, nothing innovative
Story
Who knows....? We couldn't hear any of it.
Difficulty
Easy
A horrible blend of the puzzles not providing a challenge, while also being frustrating to execute
Game tech
High tech
There were a couple old school locks, most things are digital. But they still weren't good.
Ideal number of players
2
Very little for more than 2 players to work on at once. Very cramped.
Scary
Not scary
Was anything broken?
Yes
A chest opened in room 1 that wasn't supposed to.
Live actors
No
Physically active
Not at all
Easy to find location
Yes
Parking
Medium