Boda Borg Boston Quests

Incredibly fun. Kind of like a low tech version of Level 99. Basically a bunch of themed mini escape rooms with all you can escape passes for the day.

It is a unique experience in the US (though some more like it are popping up). It is a day of quests instead of straight up escape rooms - though some of it will feel familiar. They break down the quests for you, so you can focus on things you want to try (some are VERY physical). What we had to get used to was that no room tells you what to do. A buzzer goes off if you fail and a new room opens (or you complete the sequence) if you succeed. That's it. But since they are super quick, that didn't matter. We were there four hours (you can book different amounts of time and then the rooms are unlimited) and we completed only three rooms. They told us that was average, but who knows. Part of the fun is definitely figuring out what you have to do, followed by then figuring out how to do it. I'll tell you - when you get to that stamp (finishing each room allows you to put a stamp on your passport) - it is a real feeling of accomplishment. If we lived in Boston, we would have already been back multiple times. Loved our exhausting day there.

I’ve been to boda borg several times over the years and it is always a treat!

It is entirely possible that we visited the place on an unfortunate day but most of the family did not find the experience enjoyable in the least. We focused on about 3 of the easier rooms, and by the time we realized the tech in the rooms was broken (and therefore unsolvable), we were thoroughly frustrated. The concept seems on paper like it'd be a lot of fun so again, it might have just been a bad day to go for us!

Overall concept was neat. Some of the rooms were frustrating and, like others have said, it was unclear where the failure lay as sometimes it was the tech and others just part of the learning process. Staff were not as readily available as we were lead to believe. Don’t go on the weekends or during school breaks!! Groups of young kids rudely knock on doors and run around, despite rules against this (again, no staff presence). Some rooms were very worn out and are in need of cleaning and upkeep. But there was some fun there, for sure. Absolutely not ADA compliant.

Boda Borg quests are a fun and random time. Be it climbing on a web of bungee cords, answering questions, or hiding from a demonic doll you never have some challenges and you will fail often, but try, try, and try again.

This was my first experience 'questing' or anything similar. I went with some friends who weren't comfortable with the physical quests so was unfortunately relegated to the more lightly intensive or mental quests. This still was a delightful experience that enraptured me.

Boda Borg is cooler in concept than in execution. It has some incredible rooms but there were also some extremely tedious ones with tech that didn’t always work. Additionally, we made the mistake of coming on the weekend where it was busy with a lot of kids. I’d recommend coming on a weekday if you can to really maximize the time of solving! However, the rooms that work really work, it pushes you to accept failure and retrying, and just is a very fun way to spend an afternoon.

We knew Boda Borg was an escape room adjacent experience, and that was the case. Really enjoyed our two hours of Questing. Our team of four completed three Quests successfully and tried many of the others. Looking forward to coming back again sometime!

I get the appeal for kids and teenagers, but for us, Boda Borg was like the worst parts of escape rooms - incredibly high ratio of process to a-ha moment, with the added frustration of having to wait in line to try again. Being there Saturday afternoon also meant that the screaming, squealing and banging on doors by the approximately billion young’uns there seriously intervened with the audio puzzles. For adult questers, it’s likely best to go during the week and definitely do the four hours - otherwise standing in lines is the quest you’ll spend the most time doing.