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56 escape rooms
This is a 30 minute room. As long as you are moderately acquainted with how escape rooms work, this is not a bad room. The fact that you can “choose your path” means that half of the items and puzzles in the room are irrelevant to the game you are currently playing, which I personally think would be confusing to beginners/amateurs and might ruin the experience. My experienced group of 2 players escaped with 8 seconds left. Otherwise gameplay was mainly intuitive. The set design was nice and definitely fits the alien encounter theme, a certain puzzle related to eggs and the final puzzle were especially nice touches. However not all technical puzzles were functioning properly, costing us time. Our game master was mostly helpful but we had to ask for clarification several times when things did not trigger and he could have provided it to us sooner than we asked. Overall I enjoyed this room even though it left me a bit frustrated at times. Not sure it is worth $26 for a 30 minute room, but if you also go through their haunted house and do their haunted mini golf, all three things are $40 and will take you 1-1.5 hours total.
Gameplay
Most things were intuitive. One puzzle is color related and there were unrelated items also in the same colors. The “choose your own path” experience means half of the puzzles in the room are essentially red herrings, potentially very confusing for beginners or amateurs.
Atmosphere
Customer service
Gamemaster was nice and helpful, but some clues were pretty delayed for this only being a 30 minute room.
Particularly interesting or different
There is a pretty cool surprise at the end of the room
Difficulty
Medium
Game tech
High tech
Ideal number of players
4
Scary
Not scary
Was anything broken?
Yes
Doors did not open automatically when they were supposed to or with 2 fingers of force. A button was extremely sensitive and made the final puzzle much more difficult than it should have been, nearly cost us the game.
Live actors
No
Physically active
Not at all
Easy to find location
Yes
Parking
Easy
There is a public lot behind the boardwalk, and when you enter the boardwalk the ER location is right around the corner
