N
Noviv
5 escape rooms
This escape room was fine. It felt like a set of iPad mini games, the background noise for some of the puzzles was too loud, and some puzzles seemed to not even work for us. Notably, 2 of the puzzles were completely solved for us before we entered the room - this meant we missed out on the rewarding feeling of solving the puzzle and on the story behind those puzzles. The GM gave us little story to go on but the automated narration gave us a bit. Overall, this room had many issues and was poorly run - the GM did mention this was either their first time, or the company's, running this room. That would be a valid excuse but they did playtest and seemed to just leave puzzles solved. If the iPad games are removed and the room is fixed/reset properly, I might recommend it to new escape room gamers. Otherwise, I wouldn't. I definitely wouldn't recommend this room to experienced escape rooms visitors.
Gameplay
The puzzles were less problems to solve and more highly compartmentalized mini games. Combined with the overly loud noise provided by the first half of the room, the mini games felt frankly overwhelming and unrewarding when solved.
Atmosphere
There was a lack of narrative throughout the room - it felt like elements were just slapped onto a wall where there was space instead of put where they would make sense for the story. And the final few puzzles were basically iPad mini games which completely ruined the immersion. I also think some of the final mechanism wasn't working as intended because the GM couldn't explain how the game ended for us.
Customer service
The staff was friendly and accommodating.
Particularly interesting or different
No
