The Gift

cute room with fun but simple puzzles. I had a fun time!! story is kinda nonsensical and irrelevant tho which left me wanting in the immersion aspect. theres one puzzle that seems to require being tall 🤔 this room is listed as hard but I thought it was on the easy side. that being said, we had the full 8 ppl and I felt like we were all constantly doing something, which was nice parallelization wise!

This was so so much fun! This was our first escape room with Red Door and we enjoyed it so much that we came back the next day. The GM was great and we loved the puzzles. There was a great flow throughout the game. The last part was difficult for us and we got out at the last minute. Can’t wait to be back!

We’ve played 4 other rooms at red door between San Mateo and Sacramento. This was pretty fun! We used all two hints. Played with a group of 3 which was a good size. We are pretty experienced players and some of the mechanics of how things might work helped a lot, you likely wouldn’t make it out if this was your first game. Lots of locks but a few other mechanics as well. Overall this felt worth it!

My group and I didn’t make it out, partly due to the fact we had a faulty reset that prevented us from moving forward. We didn’t get the minutes back for it and trying to flag down a GM was so difficult; it certainly felt like no one was paying attention to our game and when someone finally addressed our problem with the reset, it really took me out of the immersion. However, I will say the room flows well, the set is nice, and the puzzles range from simple to boss level puzzles.

Nope. I didn't enjoy this escape room at all. I thought they tried too hard with the puzzles and should've given people 75 mins to solve puzzles. Or I probably just didn't jive with the theme, storyline, or the puzzles itself. Overall, I've never liked any of the Red Door Escape Rooms I've done. Not my cup of tea. 🍵

As extremely experienced players that literally travel to other cities and states to play escape rooms, Red Door San Mateo is too difficult. Failed 3/4 games there.

Overall this was a good room. I think 3-4 players is the sweet spot, if you’re an experienced group. Except for one spot, there are enough puzzles to engage multiple people simultaneously. My group of 4 made it through with only one real hint (for an obvious puzzle too!), but there were a few good head scratchers that took us some time. I thought it was a good mix of easy and challenging puzzles. The presentation was clean and well finished. With one exception, everything worked well. The room doesn’t have the “high tech” feel that you get (and I look for) with some escape rooms. I felt like it leaned a little heavily on padlocks as objectives. The exception was that the final puzzle broke which, unfortunately, killed the experience for me. Because it wasn’t clearly broken, we ran through several hints, but the hints we received just told us to do what we were already doing. Eventually, our GM came in, confirmed something was up and… we just walked out because it was the final puzzle. That’s how it goes, however, and I wouldn’t de-rate the room for it. Overall, I had a lot of fun and would recommend this room to friends.

Had a lot of fun. Only asked for one clue and also got one from the game master when we were stuck.

Intricate room with lots of great puzzles. Had to use a clue on a difficult puzzle and would never have figured the challenge out without the clue. Enjoyed the room alot.

Awesome room and so much fun! The room was very well built and the GM was great. It was difficult but not impossible!