We came for a family outing during the holidays and had an amazing time. Perfect activity to have some fun and share a few laughs. Two in our group had done other escape rooms previous but a new experience for three of us. Lori from 417 escape could not have been more pleasant, gracious and helpful. Kudos to her for assisting us in this process. We chose one of the "hard" rooms and i must admit, it is a challenge. We had to utilize clues a few times in order to complete this. Once again thank you to lori for making our visit super fun. Its a great team building activity for sure! read more

417 Escape Artist - Escape Games Near Me - Springfield, Missouri

Go! If you like escape rooms and great service just go. The rooms are creative and personally crafted by the owners and the difference is notable. I hope the community supports these folks as we need to have more creative people making great entertainment options in Springfield read more

Wow! Just wow!! Our first escape room and WE DID IT!! SOO MUCH FREAKING FUN!! SOOO hard, we barely made it out and may not have without a little help from the amazing game master!!! Advice: Work together! Be organized! Use your hints wisely!! And slow down! The difficulty to this room is Hard, but you and a good team CAN do it!! Once you escape from some handcuffs that is!! read more

So much fun!!! None of our group had ever done an escape room, but we will again. It was quite challenging, but eventually solvable (with help with the game master). I totally recommend this place for family and work groups. BTW, it was very clean! read more

Truck Driver/Escape Room Enthusiast here! I travel the country and scout out the best rooms in the US. At this location my usual escape room partner and I did 2 rooms (Deadly Seven and Springfield Secret Warehouse). These were claimed to be their hardest and easiest respectively. Want an honest review of where they stand compared to others in the industry? Read on. Did we escape: I'm going to count it as Yes on both. First one if we had 15 more seconds we would have (I'll explain later on that), and the other we escaped with somewhere around 15 minutes to spare. Decor: 5/10: you got the feel of what they were trying to set the mood as, but did they go above and beyond? Absolutely not. It was very average. Technology: 2/10: Don't expect anything fancy here. In fact, I think it was a baby monitor that they used as a way of talking to us. Technology isn't always an indicator of how good/bad a room is, but it's usually a nice bonus feature that these rooms did not have. Puzzles 4/10: 1 room majorly lacked on the puzzle side. It was basically just a big hide-and-go-seek game. Couple puzzles, but they weren't anything to write home about. The other room... I don't really know how to describe it. Loaded with puzzles, some of them genius, some of them made no sense unless you got more info from the game master that wasn't provided to you within the room. Mostly, it was infuriating, not fun. Flow/Rhythm 1/10: This is one of the most important elements of a room, and they majorly dropped the ball. The flow is determined on how the clues, puzzles, and opened locks correlate with each other and you ultimately escape the room. It was chaos. So much in fact that not in one but BOTH rooms we were able to escape without ever opening all the locks and solving some puzzles (this is why we didn't officially escape the first room because we had the exit code, but couldn't figure out why we had it with locks still in play). This should NEVER happen. There was no process, no structure, just complete random and hoping your moving in the right general direction. Game masters 6/10: A game master can really set the tone of the whole experience. Are they upbeat and excited or is it just another day at work and you are kinda a bother to them? They seemed to be both. It was actually kinda impressive how they could be excited and annoyed by your existence all rolled into one. Hats off for that talent! Price 5/10: It is completely on par with the industry norm, but I have seen MUCH better technology, equipment, and decor for the same price as they are offering. Final Score 23/60 (38.3% F): This isn't the worst place I have ever been, but it does rank in the bottom 25%. I would investigate your other local escape rooms before coming here. If you have never done a room before, you could go ahead and try the Springfield Secret Warehouse for a first room. It could get your feet wet, but it isn't how a typical room should go, and you should know that before going. Happy Escaping Everyone! read more

Amazing! So fun and the clues are really clever. I love the variety of rooms because they have easier ones for kids and harder ones for adults. Even a scary one themed for the Ozarks Howler! They are family owned and I felt like it was clean, fun and worth every penny. read more

Made a reservation to go for my husband's birthday with some friends and we had a blast. Everything went very smoothly from the time we got there to when we left. Pleasant staff and fun to be around. If you have not tried this business, you should for sure. Very impressive. Thanks for a fun evening 417 escape artist read more

My Brother just proposed to his girlfriend here. The staff were amazing in making every single detail perfect so things went smoothly. They even prepared "She said Yes" signs for pictures afterwards. Great place that went the extra mile to make our experience special and memorable. read more

I'm a HUGE murder/mystery fan. A group of 6 of us did the 417 Lounge room and it was SO much fun! Anne was our guide, and she was watching us the entire time and giving us little hints as we went, and she was just a doll. The story itself was interesting, the clues weren't terribly hard, and the room itself was large enough for all of us. We made it out with 11:17 to spare! I can't wait to go back and do another one! read more