For two hours my family got to really enjoy working the rooms together to pass and get as many…read morepoints as we could get. Each room is as different as you could imagine from the other rooms. Staff was way cool and even helpful at times when we really didn't know what we were looking for. Not to be confused with a typical escape room adventure way more.

1 star awarded for the staff being upbeat, fun, easy to work with and talk to. Very helpful…read more Amazing staff. 1 star for the ambiance. From Fox Valley Mall into Mish Mash, this place is awesome. The art, digital lighting, signage, and aesthetics are so cool. They did an incredible job with designing it. Mish Mash feels like a liminal space sometimes. I have to dock 3 stars for the complexity of the games, the speed of the games, and the setup of the games. 1 Star Docked for the Setup. The rooms each have a card scanner with a code you enter. That's easy enough. But some rooms require you to push buttons to select teams. Each room handles this differently. It was confusing. Stuff like this needs to be decided outside the room. By the time you go inside the room, you should be playing the game. I don't want to spend an additional 1-3 minutes learning how the setup works. 1 Star Docked for the Complexity of the Games. This makes me sad because the rooms look amazing. The soccer game's fence is too low, so balls ricochet easily. The ropes rooms are too intense for bigger adults, and quite frankly, a liability. The sewer room is a cool concept but way too difficult to climb for adults. The cathedral room we solved, but the game penalized us for not pushing the buttons at the end. We didn't know and the staff didn't give us the points. The biblioteca and crime wall room's tablets froze and we couldn't finish the games. The room with the white cables and colors doesn't give you enough instructions. In fact, please don't give us riddles. Just tell us what to do. I don't want to be even more confused than I already am. Please just forgo the riddles entirely. 1 Star Docked for the Speed of the games. From entering a room to start, the games take forever. 3 minute countdown becomes a 10 second countdown, which then becomes a 10-15 second riddle, which then becomes the room turning on. It's a lot of time docked for just waiting. I was getting impatient. New rooms made me nervous. I'm sad. This place looked so cool. The rooms are beautiful, but disappointing. If I could change mish mash, I would instead do a museum style approach, where the tablets are removed, the magnet doors are removed. And players are instead given an app or a tablet, and each room can be freely entered and played with. And maybe have players solve a mystery and learn to communicate with each other and perhaps with others. And maybe each room has a sort of solution or goal that works towards a greater goal? Or doing a set number of instructions will flash a code that can be used in a phone or tablet to open up more clues or something. That way the whole exiting and re-entering can be alleviated. Either that or take a road trip to activate games down the street and create games that are a little simpler in design. Mish Mash is a good concept but it needs more time to cook. Thank you for the experience, but until they fix things, I wouldn't recommend coming back.

We took my kids and a friend, and they had so much fun. We did the Steam room, and we loved all the…read moredetails, well done. The owner was super friendly, and nice! We can't want to go back and try more rooms.

Me, my wife, and 2 kids went there and did the easy room. Both kids (7 & 10) were able to…read morecontribute. We loved it. Would recommend.

Did the prison escape room and it was super fun and very well done! Jamie was great definitely will…read morebe going back.

Awesome games , owner was very friendly and accommodating my daughter cake cutting at the lobby…read morearea . Very friendly and highly recommended.

Great place to have fun and let the kids burn off excess energy. Don't eat the pizza unless you're…read moreinto raw dough. Very disappointing for the money we spent. My wife took my daughter to the rest room and found it not only disgusting, but everything was broken. That tells me they have no management staff Be careful of this place. If they can't get the little things right, what else safety wise is going on?

The employees on the floor were very rude. They had no respect, very snarkey. I brought my own…read moregrippy socks, not knowing their rule. I was there for my grandsons christmas break. I got rude looks the WHOLE time before a young lady came up to me and nastily told me to put on epic air socks or I would have to leave. I was not intentionally breaking their rules and I got greeted with a rude slap on the wrist instead of kindly telling me that they have a rule. I was shocked at how this generation has no respect for accidents. I will NOT be going back or recommending it to my grandsons friends.

We had a great time! The Jurassic room was quite a challenge. We didn't win but I would definitely…read moreagain!

This was the most fun I have had in a long time! I highly recommend going if you want a fun…read moreactivity to use your brain. I will say if you are autistic, the lights and sound effects could be triggering. But if you are solid and not off your meds, you're going to have great fun!!

My husband and I went to try our first escape room together at Odyssey and I thought it was pretty…read moregood! It's located across from Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg, in the 999 plaza next door. There's plenty of parking which is always a plus. As soon as you walk up to the entrance you'll see a sign for Odyssey. We came 15 minutes before our reservation time. During this time they just want to review the safety guidelines with you before they taken you into the room for your game. We did the "Towering Inferno" and unfortunately did not make it out alive. The rooms are clean and the staff are all friendly. I don't have other places to compare to but in my opinion I can say this place is low key in technology. When we first entered the room, a staff member gives you the plot by reciting the story. I guess I wanted a more dramatic storyteller but it felt like a low key lecture I guess? 2 people can definitely solve it but it would've been better if we had at least 3 or 4 people. For this challenge, I would say about half of it is solved on computers. The other half are lock combinations. At the end we were told the last bits of info of how we could have finished and escaped. They will take a picture for you inside the room at the end and also offer a group picture with signs in front of their Odyssey sign in the main lobby. I felt like this was a pretty good experience. Again, the space is clean and I am interested in coming back to try their other escape rooms. Don't try to walk-in, make sure to make a reservation on their site! Google for a discount code before you reserve a room. I also saw people mention something on Groupon for deals.

The Titanic was a decent escape room but it didn't flow well. A lot of back and forth. Interesting…read moreconcept for an escape room though.

I have always wanted to do an actual escape room, rather than playing the board/card games. I…read morefinally got to experience it for the first time for my birthday and it was such a wonderful and amazing time! With the pandemic happening, we weren't sure what to expect. I was in a group of 4 with the youngest person being 10 years old. We all had our masks on and we were greeted by the hostess. She and the other people working there also had masks on. We were given the option to take our masks off once we entered the room to start the game. Before we were shown to our room, they played a small video to teach players the basic rules and guidelines, such as no climbing on furniture and no cell phone use during the entirety of the game. Once that was over, the hostess explained a few more rules to help us understand parts of the game. For example, the function of the different locks. Another useful thing they told us was that we are only given 3 hints to ask, but throughout the game, there is a display that'll have directions to sort of help us get on the right track! The theme we played was called, "The Quest for the Throne" which was a 3.5/5 for difficulty rating. Now, we're not allowed to say anything specific about the puzzles so new players can experience them. But we enjoyed them a lot! Some of them were challenging, others we figured out immediately. There were two puzzles in particular that ate up a lot of our time, and we ultimately failed. Though if we had completed them, we only had two puzzles left before we could escape. Overall, the party and I really enjoyed our time there!! Definitely a place for people of all ages. The facility was nice and clean, and the people working there were super nice. I really hope this place stays for a long time! We already can't wait to try out the other themes!

Awesome escape room, this place is a gem in Sycamore! We did the Prison Break room with a group of…read more5. It was a really creative and challenging (but not impossible) room(s) design. Our group had a ton of fun! Plus this is all a family-owned business, Casey was wonderful!

My first escape room experience, which I found to be about the right amount of challenging as our…read moregroup did the Arkham Asylum room. I liked many things about this spot like the parking wasn't too difficult, the attendant was very nice and helpful, and the overall quality of the room I thought was good. There was a considerably amount of red herrings here that prevented the room from being solved too quickly - definitely promoting better communication and teamwork, and great attention to detail in order to successfully solve the rooms. I liked the wide variety of different puzzles available and the vastly different feel to each room. Overall, fun experience and although not cheap -- I feel the effort put into designing the room justifies the cost. I would do more experiences here again in the future with more friends.

Excellent experience! Challenging with just enough jump scares! Had a great time! Our group was 7…read morepeople and there was plenty of space and enough puzzles to engage everyone.