Lab at Loch Ness

COMPLETELY different than any other room I've ever done. Story-based, no clock, split start, projection mapping, communication challenges, and no physical locks. Loved the concept.

Started our marathon with this game and not disappointed, thanks for a fun time!

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This one was okay. Cool concept, puzzles were meh

There’s a split start in this room. I’m usually fine with split starts, and some of my favorite games even use them. However, this one was probably one of the most frustrating I’ve ever experienced. Communication between the team is largely done through headphones and microphone that are wired to an unmovable base. The puzzles are esoteric and complex enough that it’s difficult to communicate without being next to the puzzle data that you can’t reach with the headphones and mic. So basically, in this scenario where communication is important, the designers have made it inherently difficult to communicate… The rest of the room is basically guess and check surrounded by a checklist of tasks, so I assume the split start part was skewed hard to account for how easy everything after is. The tech is nice as always in their rooms, even though its implementation here was more confusing than not. I liked the ending, but I cannae recommend the journey to it.

We found The Bureau on a previous visit and were impressed from the start! It felt like a puzzle from the moment we walked in the front door. Lab at Loch Ness was very fun. The technology and graphics of certain things involved made it very exciting and immersive. Even with a larger group where some puzzles weren’t even touched or looked at by everyone, everyone felt like they were involved and contributed.

Maybe it was just us, but boy we had a hard time with this at the beginning! It starts as a split room with your group in two separate rooms, and your communication has to be particularly clear to each other. Harder than other split rooms we’ve done. Really great theme though and lots of clever puzzles.

Special effects were really cool, but felt some additional puzzles would have helped. Communication was difficult at first since it was hard to hear. I didn’t feel like that added to the theme.

Very fun!! Splitting up wasn’t my favorite because the communication device was only accessible to one person but the theming was AWESOME and it had very fun and immersive effects!!!