East End Express - Good Guy

This room has two different outcomes, and we have played them both. This version of the room is fantastic. The room is extremely immersive; the flow of this version of the game is awesome; and the variety of puzzles is great, regardless of what type of room you typically prefer. The room does have some minimally physical elements, so this would be something to consider if you have mobility issues. There were a couple of very minor administrative things that slightly impacted the game. First, as is typical for many rooms, a video is shown before the room giving instructions as to what you are and are not allowed to do in the room; however, one of the puzzles in this room requires that you perform an activity you are explicitly warned not to do during the video. It would be beneficial for this to be addressed before the room or somehow with instructions during gameplay, as we avoided this initially based on instructions. We also had some difficulty with one of the activities registering that we had completed the task, but we only had to work with it a little before we were able to proceed. I would definitely go this route with this room, as the other storyline of this room was the only bad experience in a room we have had with this company. This storyline, however, was one of the best.

Great room. I wish we could do both scenarios but we have a total of 11 rooms booked between Friday and Sunday. 9 of them with MER! We love their rooms. I would recommend more than 2 people for this room if you are a beginner. Very immersive. Highly recommend.

The subway set was so realistic, including the feeling of motion. The neat idea in this room is that it offered a choice of being the good or bad guys. That may have been a "big decision", but afterwards it still felt like a normal escape room. In palying, we realized how much we try to "game the system" and guess what is left in a room and what is going to happen next because there were obvious puzzles that it turned out we didn't need because they were for the other version.

For this game we picked no which is the good guys. You can technically play either game before the other one. This room was frustrating to play because a lot of the puzzles were mechanical and very finicky which was very frustrating. We had to do the puzzles more than once and then eventually the system would recognize we had did the puzzle correctly…we even asked the GM about it later and he said that’s just how the puzzles are in this part of the game

This room is so cool! It’s crazy how there are two totally different rooms in one room, based solely on your choices. We liked both versions a lot, and even doing them back to back it felt like 2 different rooms which was super cool. It does mean that this is a harder room because there’s a ton of stuff in the room that’s only related to one, but as long as you follow the story it works well.

Would not recommend as first game at location. Loved the other rooms played but debated not playing any other one because of this room. Disliked because of a few puzzles specifically. Would not recommend for mid experienced players.

Solid room from quality company. One puzzle was overly ambiguous with necessity of discerning subtle color differences and gauges that did not work properly because it was thunder storming outside.