Ruins: Forbidden Treasure

We were paired with two mothers and their four kids. It's always a mixed bag when you do rooms with strangers, but luckily they were a great group and we all worked well together. The story was good and added a nice touch of humor to the game. The set, as always, was amazing. It always feels like you're in a movie. The puzzles were fun and for the most part flowed well. I had two complaints. Please slap some paint on the circular puzzle pieces. In the dim lights it was really difficult to tell the difference between the pieces. Also, if there is a puzzle that is broken, please let us know up front so we don't waste our time trying to solve something that is impossible. I had friends do the room a few weeks before and it was broken then as well. Overall, the room was a lot of fun and I look forward to trying their other rooms.

One of the most immersive rooms and best sets out there. Gameplay made sense. There's enough going on that it works for either small groups (taking things on linearly) or big groups (taking things on in parallel). Only thing I didn't love was that it wasn't obvious when you'd "won." Small criticism.

It was fun. The room was rated as a 6/10 in terms of difficulty, which is the easiest of the rooms available here. I would say that it was absolutely harder than some others. Good variety of puzzles.

If I hadn’t played Nashville Ruins first, this game would’ve blown me away a bit. It’s easily one of The Escape Game’s best sets, I’m always thoroughly impressed with their jungle stuff. While the Nashville Ruins feels like something crazy and premium, this feels more like a classic TEG room. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, since this game is still very well done. It’s notably shorter and has slightly smaller reveals, but even compared to all of TEG’s other stuff, the special effects in this game are quite impressive. It’s still probably in my top 3 TEG games, and either the top 2 or 1 at this location (haven’t played Cosmic Crisis yet). Check this one out, especially if you haven’t tried the Nashville version yet.