I have to say, I was really disappointed in this. I've done one other room escape here in town and thought it was pretty good, so I wanted to give this a try.
First, the good: the staff was helpful. That's really about it.
Now, the bad:
1) The location is completely hidden, and completely exacerbated by having different addresses on the tickets, the confirmation email, and on their website. In the parking lot, there's no signage or anything.
2) When we got into the room, I was SHOCKED at how small it was. We only had 7 people and it was next to impossible to move inside this room...and they take up to 12 people at a time. This also makes it really stupid when you're trying to dodge the "zombie".
3) This is very minor, but, we were told when we went in that the "zombie" would get you out if he touched your foot with his hand; so, my strategy was to just stay away from his hands. I was quite surprised to find out that he could touch me with his feet and get me "out" as well.
4) I had understood that the zombie would get an extra foot of chain per 5 minutes...well, after the first 15 minutes, the zombie had full range of the room...we were only surviving, simply put, because the zombie was being nice and having fun with us.
5) Their clues/riddles/puzzles are really, really bad. Like, god-awful bad. There needs to be at least SOME logic to the puzzle, but there was none of that here. I wish I could go into detail, but that would obviously ruin things, but, I'll make up an example: if you're trying to escape a room, it doesn't make any sense at all to do things like require you to count the number of ceiling tiles and electrical outlets in the room...but there was something very similar to that we encountered. There should be a logic and a flow to things, as the other room escapes do.
6) This was particularly bad. As we were completing tasks, one of the guys running the game was continually re-setting puzzles for the next game. This lead to members of our team stumbling upon a key or other new clue and trying it, only for the guys running it to say, "You already used that key." Gee, thanks! We just spent several minutes trying to use it....
7) Two of the puzzles were essentially broken.
It was pretty rough there. If these guys seriously want to run a good show, they should eliminate the zombie (or use a bigger room...and follow their rules on the chain), and they need to revamp their clues in a big way. read more