Atlantis Rising

The staff was great but the room had technical difficulties when it came to speakers

Fun room, great set. After having completed all PanIQ rooms, I will say they’re not my favorite but not bad at all either. We had fun solving all the puzzles in Atlantis and found the secret treasure with 4 minutes to spare

As usual with PanIQ rooms it looks fantastic. Puzzles can be a little vague, some feel designed for brute force solutions over providing the information needed to solve it otherwise. This room had no locks or keys, all things automatically triggered, but some didn't trigger the first time and need to be fiddled with. There is a musical clue, which while annoyingly repeating until you solve it isn't clear enough to hear. GM also comes in very quiet and hard to hear over background sounds. Similar with audio instructions can me hard to hear/understand. Puzzles are varied and interesting. Some have obviously been changed over time as things broke. Overall it is a fun game, but be prepared to ask for more hints than you would at other rooms in the area. Mostly because of your inability to hear a clue or something not activating the first time. GM was nice and seemed to fully understand the challenges.

Was a very well decorated room, but if you are a traditional escape room lover- this wouldn’t be your top pick.

Fun game, glitchy electronics

This was our first time going to PanIQ (it appeared to have good Google reviews). The room feels very amusement parkish, which at first was exciting since initially it felt immersive with visuals. They lean heavily into technology for the puzzles, many with built in timers that made it very frustrating since the room has very poor lighting and if you don’t solve it within the timer it resets. The hints were way too much information, which can ruin the puzzles. Things don’t stand out enough in the room for triggered events, so at times you don’t even realize you solved a puzzle. Some puzzles are slow to trigger, so if you’re trying to move quick, you might unsolved what was actually solved.

PanIQ is a relatively basic company that typically manages to make fun games better than some other chains (like breakout or mystery rooms). This is the worst game I played, with a frustrating mix of an unhelpful gamemaster and poorly clued puzzles. I would recommend trying their other games or tackling this game with low expectations.

Room was immersive and beautiful but SIGNIFICANTLY delayed for things to “unlock” so it felt like you did the puzzle wrong. This room had fun and interesting puzzles and would recommend to other with the caveat of “be patient”. The room was very dark and a prop flashlight should’ve been given vs us being told to use our phones for flashlights. Audio was also poor and it was hard to hear.

Pretty close to the line between recommended and not. Some very good set design and a lot of cleverness in puzzles but no real clueing, remnants of a removed puzzle, and difficulty sometimes in understanding what was solved. This led to frustration too often. Please fix lighting instead of telling us we can use our phone flashlights.