I am a huge escape room nerd and have done 10+ rooms in different cities with various groups over the past few years. I did Space and The Initiation this past month with two different groups of 5, most of which had never done an escape room. My understanding was that these were among the easiest of their games, with about a 50% escape rate (the easiest is apparently Captain's Quarters). I have to say I was honestly pretty disappointed at just how easy these rooms seemed to be. Both times, despite having a smaller group than the maximum and having mostly new players, we managed to escape in about 30 minutes. The challenge just wasn't there and everything was very straight forward and linear in both games. The clues felt overly obvious and when you did get a hint, the answer was literally handed to you rather than just a nudge in the right direction. Do not try to do these rooms with the full suggested 8 or most people will just stand around and do nothing. The rooms aren't big enough and don't have enough puzzles to occupy more than 4-5 people MAX (really could be done by 2).
Space Room: ion Room: 1/5 stars
The Initiation was a bad room, very boring, straight forward, no real thought or effort put into it or the atmosphere, and just down right easy easy. The room's environment was just plain, simple, and never opened any secret rooms or hidden areas. They also didn't play any music or sounds the entire time which made it a lot harder to really get into when things are so sterile and obvious like puzzle, puzzle, puzzle rather than a story and feeling like you've been immersed into something. Basically you are literally just stuck in a small square room the entire time with nothing new to discover and small clips will play on a TV to give you the next puzzle. I would say total there must have been only 10 puzzles to the entire room, which you mostly had to solve one by one in order to unlock the next. Might be good for a small group of beginners (2-3 people), but any group that has done an escape room before will think this is way too easy and not worth the money.
Space Room: 3/5 stars
The space theme was cool, the room design was fairly immersive, but the puzzles were lackluster without really any innovation and didn't take too much thought to figure out. This had more puzzles and a bit more thought involved, but still straight forward. It is very small at first so a large group may struggle here. I would say 3-4 people is the right amount, but if you're an escape room nerd like me then 2 people max or it'll be too easy and not enough to do.
Beat the Room is the closest escape room to me so I will be back to try their more difficult ones. I am hoping these are a bit more challenging and interesting. IF they matched Space in environment with more puzzles so it wasn't so linear, I think they've got a shot at being pretty good. read more