Το Σανατόριο [The Sanatorium]

8.8/10 There is only one way to play this escape room. Midnight Mode. More Monsters, More Puzzles, More Fear, More Pressure, and overall an incredible experience. The performances by the actors are outstanding. Every character in their element, immersing you deeper and deeper into the experience. The scares are well balanced, from terrifying jump scares to psychological manipulation, to situational pressure forcing you to make quick decisions and adjust play style accordingly. Puzzles are not strong points in the majority of Greek rooms, but the Sanatorium was a breath of fresh air. Their puzzles were anywhere from simply straight forward to complex and thought provoking. And don’t even worry about the production and set design. As Lockhill once again outdid themselves, proving themselves once again as one of the best Escape Room companies in Greece, if not the world. And yes, bring an extra pair of shoes.

Great experience. If You love the game "outlast", you are going to LOVE this escape room

Great set design, part of an overall story that connects all rooms at lockhill. We played in day mode but for those into more horror experiences, night mode should be right up your alley. Would have hearted but room was uncomfortably hot at times.

We did midnight mode! What we experienced in that room it is difficult to describe! It was very scary we felt we are in the horror movie! Great set and interesting puzzles staff was very helpful and friendly, we enjoyed it more than chapel & catacombs. If you don’t like horror movies you would not enjoy to be constantly scared 😱 but we loved it 🖤

We played on Midnight mode (both horror and puzzles enabled), which I would highly recommend if you're an enthusiast who wants the full experience. Newer players might want to opt for the less stressful Day version (puzzles only), while haunt fans might appreciate the simpler Night version (horror with very simple puzzles). This was the only game (out of ~20) on our Athens tour where I had a moment (early on, shortly after we had made our way into the sanatorium and had done a tiny bit of exploration) of "Oh God, this is terrifying, get me out". I'm glad I stuck with it, though - this is definitely type 2 fun. The set is fantastic - large, atmospheric, and spooky. That's before the monsters and fog arrive to kick things up to the next level. The intense fog also means the GMs can't necessarily visually monitor players - there's an alternate means to contact them that becomes available pretty early on, but players have to be proactive. The game was extremely tense, which of course made it harder to focus on and solve puzzles. Even more so than many Athens games, they really like their fog machines - there were times I could barely see my hands. I kind of wish I had brought a mask, because I don't know how healthy the fog is to breathe. I should note some safety problems. The timeout room (where you get put if you're caught by a monster) is somewhat cramped and physically locked from the outside; if a fire happened, it would be bad. At one point in the game, one of my teammates was fleeing from a monster and injured himself by running into a door (it was very foggy and he thought he was further down the hallway than he actually was) - nothing major, just a small cut above his eye, but he did have to call the GM and get taken out of the game to get patched up. We played in English with no problems.

We did not love this room. We played in day mode in order to experience more puzzles because there are so many horror experiences in Athens. Since day mode didn't have live actors, I didn't experience it, but I can imagine that it's really frustrating to solve puzzles when you have to move between rooms while avoiding actors. In day mode, the flow wasn't great. There's also a good chance that you're going to get wet which I did not appreciate. We have really mixed emotions about this room, but I think it disappointed us the most that staff wasn't nearly as welcoming as they've been at other escape rooms. For us, talking to the actors, owners, and employees is a huge part of the experience.

Still one of the best escape rooms in Athens.

Not sure what to think about this game. The atmosphere was really good (though the fog made much of the trick), in the beginning it was scary a lot. But after some time it became frustrating. Some of the puzzles were hard to solve because of a bad game design (some clues not visible, some puzzles on the trial and error basis) and hint mechanics was also not working the best way. It has innovative game mechanic idea of acting, though after some time it's not scary anymore but mostly frustrating. But I hated that at one point of the game (no matter how quick you were before) you are given limited time to solve known number of puzzles without much chance to solve them all. And when the time is up, you are basically at the end of the game. So you can finish your game with some 30 minutes left of the time you paid for without having opportunity to solve many puzzles you've seen in the game. Maybe it's better to try other mode then midnight one.

One of my top games, still after 600 rooms played. Great acting, team puzzles, and full of surprises

We played midnight mode and it was the scariest thing we did that year bar none. Had little nightmares for a month. Would recommend 👍👍