I hosted my boyfriend's ugly sweater-themed birthday celebration at this venue, and overall, the…read moreexperience was very fun & enjoyable! We selected Christmas-inspired games to enhance the festive atmosphere, which added an extra level of fun and engagement for our guests. The event hosts were professional, enthusiastic, and a pleasure to work with throughout the experience. The party package included unlimited drinks during gameplay, which was appreciated, and the option to add catering was a convenient feature--which I did end up adding. The only area for improvement that I would recommend is greater attention to detail regarding their add-ons. I had added a mini trophy and ribbon as part of our party package; however, these items were not provided until after the event had concluded and many guests had already departed. This was disappointing, as the add-on was intended to be part of the celebration itself. Overall, though, the event was a success, and we'll definitely be back for more:)

We went to Game Show Battle Room for my father in law's birthday with a group of six adults, and it…read morewas an absolute blast. Colby was our host and Justice was our producer, and they completely made the experience. They were funny, engaging, and knew how to read the room and tailor the games to our group. We had so much fun that we decided to stay for a second game. We did both Classic and Prime Time and honestly can't decide which one we liked more. Both were so fun and really felt like you were on a game show. This was easily the most fun we've had together in a long time. What really stood out was how customized the whole experience felt. It wasn't just running through a script. Colby and Justice made it feel personal and special, which took it to another level. If you're looking for something fun and different to do in Salt Lake City, this is it. We can't wait to come back next time we're in town.

My family and I were in town for another reason and we had a few hours to kill and chose to try out…read morethe Gamebox experience. We did the Squid games one and none of us had watched the show, but were able to follow along well enough. We had a blast. We live in the Reno, NV area and wish this would come to our area. It would make a killing. Wish we could try them all. Definitely recommend to others.

This is a great summer event for kids and adults. We got the summer pass and are excited to bring…read moreour other grand kids. They played the angry birds and the floor is lava. The angry birds were fun and kept them engaged But it was a little slow. Lava is a little bit harder but they got the hang of it pretty quickly.

A Great Escape is the fourth escape room place I've been to, and though it was still fun in some…read moreaspects, the Malcom's Millions room was the least fun of any of the rooms I've done. The room was in good condition and clean, but there weren't very many total puzzles to solve -- maybe a dozen between throughout the entire Malcolm's Millions experience. Compare that to the 2-3 dozen that have been in the other rooms I've done, and it just felt like there wasn't much for each member of our team to do individually. Additionally, of the puzzles found in the room, one of them involving a map is incredibly vague -- to the point where we deciphered and solved it, but it wasn't that close to what the code should be, and we had to ask for a clue to decipher the map. Our group had fun, but unless the other rooms here had more puzzles, I think I'd go to other escape room venues first.

May magic is well and alive at Gardner Village in South Jordan, Utah, truly a jewel among the red…read morerocks and wonderful communities around Salt Lake City. We make our pilgrimage to Bridal Veil Falls in Provo every other year, but only this year came upon Gardner Village, a veritable fairyland, that had us asking, why do we not have something like that in Southern California?! A small business complex with plentiful free parking and clean restrooms, Gardner Village is built exactly as one imagines a fairy grove to be. We started off with a delicious lunch at Archibald's before working it off on the A-Z Fairy Hunt: 26 captured porcelain fairies sealed in jars hung in strategic locations, and as we did so, we discovered enchanted pools, fairy houses, stitch and yarn shops, toy and puzzle stores, the prettiest clothes, bags and trinkets, and, right in front of the Floating Island "I Spy" activity, A Great Escape, an enclave of currently four escape rooms that provides family fun in 60 and 20 minutes. We were a little worn out from the free fun that the Fairy Hunt and I Spy offered, so, for our first time with A Great Escape, we decided to try to free a fairy instead. It cost much less money out of pocket than any room we've ever played, but that was because the game was 20 minutes instead of the usual 60. The work put into creating the room was certainly as much as you would expect out of a 60-minute room. It was what we consider a mid-tech room, since it did have both regular locks and computerized elements. I think the two of us only asked for help once, if that - ha! In keeping with the theme of story, movies, books and legends, A Great Escape was unobtrusive walking by, but a lovely spacious lobby welcomed us upon entry. Maile was our games host, and she was great. Once she knew we were not new to escape rooms, she skipped most of the preamble and led us to the whimsical wood where Willow was held captive. The puzzles were the perfect level of difficulty for both little children and the young at heart, and the final reveal completely built to theme. There was a number of very un-fairy-like hardware store locks, and the colour-blind might find some part of the game a little more challenging, but the Great Fairy Escape is the best possible game to start off with if you are new to escape rooms, and just right if you just have 20 minutes to spare between a snack at Biscott's and boba at H-Mart! Our time remaining according to the Leaderboard on their website was 00:02:42, but we clocked us at 17:14 before we realized there was an official time! Maile's picture of us was terrific and we really appreciated her offer of an on-the-spot discount for our next game. Summer scheduling being the way it is, though, we were not able to take advantage of that offer: we had a date to carry on the wonder at the Harry Potter Exhibition nearby in Sandy (on through summer 2025)! We are rating them four solid stars only because they are quite a little more expensive if you count cost per minute. That said, this is only our first visit to Gardner Village and A Great Escape. As an added bonus, all the shops at Gardner Village offer coupons with each other, so this is definitely a place to spend all day at. We can't wait to go back and try out their other rooms, especially since a couple of them are seasonal. We can only imagine how gorgeous it would be at Halloween and Christmas!

When we're too worn out from hiking the Beehive State's gorgeous waterfalls, or if we just want the…read moreexperience of escaping a dark, cold forest getting ready to be roasted in an oven by sister witches without wearing hiking gear, we head to one of the many spellbinding escape rooms in the state. Unfortunately, the cost of an hour is just about as high as that in SoCal now that inflation has hit, but for fun in private, with no waiting and unparalleled immersiveness, escape rooms are a family entertainment we are so grateful is available to us, and, more importantly, for a duo, which we now are, since we are empty-nesting! Our first escape room in Utah this year was with More than Mysteries in Murray, a suburb of Salt Lake City. Hansel and Gretel is a favourite Grimm tale, and we wanted something cutely creepy but not really scary - and did More than Mysteries deliver! More than Mysteries is located on the third floor of an office building, easy to find if you followed Google's breadcrumbs. Upon exiting the elevator (or take the stairs), turn right towards the toilet and it's the business at the end of the floor. We were there about five minutes early on a Monday, and we did something we never thought we would ever do: we did the scaring! Our game mistresses - not one, but two - sister green witches in full garb - opened the door the same time we did, and we pretty much stumbled onto each other. We just had enough time to take in that the lobby was beautifully furnished, and before we knew what was going on (good thing we signed our waivers before!), we were measured (heads and general oven-fitness), instructed on our roles and responsibilities (no videos, hurray!) and shoved (gently) into the candy cottage. We were allowed to keep our phones, but there were lockers if we wanted them. It was déjà vu! We've done other similar themes but this was very original. In spite of the witches' fear, it was not too hot, nor too cold (it was nice they told us they would adjust to our temperature preference) and was decorated just like an antique book illustration, absolutely gorgeous and in-theme. The cat was an especially well-thought-out touch. It was a dim room but, again, plenty of lights were included for ambience and game and there were not so many red herrings as you would think in a room so well-laid-out: many times, what appeared to be a red herring was actually essential to our very simple goal of getting out of the witches' clutches. Hansel and Gretel was what we would call an intermediate G2 (second generation, medium-tech) room, with traditional locks and a couple of higher tech locks, with a good hint delivery system and a timer in the room. We were grateful for the pen & paper provided for notes, because the clues were not that straightforward, and the non-linear aspect of the game meant that sometimes two puzzles were needed to open a third lock. Our favourite puzzles were the ants and the candles - so clever! It was the perfect room for two to four people, very family-friendly (with only one or two locks which needed bending down to access), perfect for a date, to start the day or end it. We made it out of the forest in 50:28, completely forgetting about the chocolates and lemon drops. It was a sad second when we took off our costumes to take our victory photos on our phones and with hand painted signs. For the first time ever, we actually had our photos taken with our game hosts! We had a really good time, and really appreciate the thank-you email sent to us after the game. The room was so well-planned and thought-through, it was as though we were really walking in the footsteps of the original fairytale. We can't wait for the summer to get here so we can visit again for their new rooms: Black Widow Escape and Curse of the Enchanted Artifact. Perhaps if we followed the trail of the spiders instead of pebbles ...

Did this with my husband and two sisters, it was our first escape room and it was AMAZING. So many…read moredetails and sooo fun! Definitely recommend!

We did the Lockdown Escape room, it was SOOOO much fun. I've done 3 and this was the best by far…read more There are a lot of puzzles to solve in this one and they could be solved in any order, so different subsets of people could work on different clues simultaneously. This was great for a large group. Our group ranged in age from 8 to 79. It was scary enough that it was fun, but not too scary for our 8 YO. Everyone from the kids to teenagers to parents and grandparents were able to join in, work on the puzzles, get scared and have fun. Everyone was able to participate in finding clues and solving puzzles. It was challenging for the adults, but accessible for the kids. Our host was amazing (I think his name was Jonah) . We did not escape but still enjoyed it. It was hard but not frustratingly so. The first-timers and regular escape room fans both had fun.

I came here with a group to try out the escape room and it was a great experience! Big thanks to…read moreour host, CJ (or TJ - I think I heard both) for making it a memorable time. We did the Asylum room and started out with one of our members in a straight jacket, intriguing! The room itself was decorated well and looks to be part of their actual haunted house route - super cool! This is their hardest rooms and we were close the finishing, but ran out of time. I would love to come back and try some of the other rooms! The pricing for each person is reasonable (which is what caught our eyes in the first place) and I think the experience was well worth it. Can't wait to go back!

Save your money, this place suck. They basically threw some locks together and called it an escape…read moreroom. Now owned by Escape Utah, I was hoping to have a good time with the family....this is by far the worst escape room I've ever experienced! We did "the Hexed" room. The bad: it's one room. The host is terrible. They are more concerned about you stealing escape room ideas(forced to lock phones), than a great user experience (terrible hints). Everything is locks based. No real puzzles. No real mechanisms. Everything is cheaply made. Lots of random props with no purpose. No real storyline or true purpose of the room. The good: none (this place is so run down, the floor creeks from above). I'm so frustrated, I'll never wast my money at any of this company's escape room again. I'm especially upset at the host. If you get stuck, you will hope that at some point, they just tell you exactly what to do, instead we were stuck for 60minutes on a stupid suitcase that had the dumbest coding ever. Even after failing the dang room, he refused to tell us how to escape the room. He just open the door for us to leave. WTF! Save your money. Go somewhere where they care about you having a great time and want you to come back.

In theory, this place has fun themed rooms with many puzzles that are tricky to solve, but leave…read moreyou feeling clever when you solve them. Unfortunately, our group left after a frustrating experience since our room was quite literally impossible to escape from. Let me explain: Our group of five booked the Fahrenheit 451 online in advance. We checked in, placed our belongings in lockers, and went into a room that was cleverly designed to hide clues. We started solving puzzles, got a hint from the Enigma Escape worker, and were eventually able to open the door into the second room of the Fahrenheit 451 experience. From here, the experience went downhill. Without giving too much away for those who want to try this room for themselves, of the puzzles in this second room requires you to find seven gears before you can proceed in your escape efforts. During our search for the gears, our team asked for a hint, and the screen used to provide hints froze, meaning we couldn't receive hints/communication from the staff (to their credit, they handwrote a clue on a note for us and slipped it under the door while rebooting the system, which later worked). With five minutes of time left on our clock, we had six of the seven gears, but there was a letter-based combination lock on a box we were confident contained the last gear needed for our puzzle. We asked for a clue, and were told to use the information from a couple of specific items we'd collected. We'd already tried all of the letter combinations from those already, but we tried again based on the clue--still no luck. As time expires, the worker comes in to tell us we were out of time. Feeling like we'd spent forever on this gear puzzle, we asked if we could have just a couple more minutes to solve it. She told us no, because she'd felt bad about the screen freezing earlier and had already given us an extra five minutes to compensate for that (which was nice of her). So we asked if we could at least have the code of the lock we'd struggled for so long to open. She asked if we'd tried the combinations from the items we'd collected, and we told her that we had. She said, "all four of them?" We'd only collected three, but we showed her where we found them (turns out one of them was found from a place it shouldn't have been hidden), and she showed us where the fourth should have been hidden, but wasn't (our group had checked there). It turns out this missing fourth item contained the letter combination needed to open the lock. Since it wasn't where it was supposed to be hidden, the employee gave us the combination, and when we unlocked the box, it had the fourth item (containing the combination code) inside of it -- in other words, they very key needed to unlock a box was locked in that box you needed the key to unlock, making it an impossible challenge to solve. The employee told us that our hunch was correct and that the last gear should have been in the box, rather than the fourth item that gave the code. It turns out that the employee who reset the room not only hid the code in the wrong spot, but also failed to hide the last gear to the puzzle, and merely left it in place from where the last group had placed it to solve the final puzzle to escape (the puzzle you weren't supposed to unlock before you had collected all seven gears). So, we learned that our group isn't dumb, we were just given a room that was impossible to solve because it wasn't properly reset by employees. To her credit, the employee who helped us was apologetic and kind the whole time, and offered us a coupon code for our next visit (though we felt as though this coupon is a bounce-back coupon that everyone receives). But we left frustrated and with a sour taste in our mouths from the experience.

You have to go into this experience knowing what to expect. As long as your expectations are set…read moreproperly, you won't be disappointed. The location of this arcade is in a tired, worn down strip mall that has mostly empty stores. It's a little sad, honestly. I'd say most of the action is here and the toy store a few doors down. (There's also a police substation, but I'd hope most of their action is elsewhere.) Anyway, you pay a $3 entrance fee per person. Doesn't matter if grandma just wants to watch, she gets to pay. So plan for that. You can bring your own nickels, or they will supply them to you at cost (you pay for $2 in coins, you get $2 in coins). All the games accept nickels; some only a couple, others quite a few. Most of the games also spit out paper tickets based on your winnings, which you then redeem for prizes at the counter. Don't expect the prizes to be too alluring-cheap candy and toys akin to the dollar store is what you'll find. But it's plenty appealing to the kids-they love this stuff! From my observation, about 85% of the games worked, while a handful did not. That didn't deter my group, they just moved on to the next game. I saw hand sanitizer at the front counter as well as on a couple tables on the game floor. Everything appeared clean, just a little worn. The bathrooms were also pretty dated, but nothing terrible. Overall, if you're an eight year old kid with a pocket full of coins, I can see you finding a few hours of fun here. It would be cool if they had a snack bar or even a vending machine available to us hungry and thirsty moms who are 100% here for the enjoyment of someone other than ourselves.

NOPE! I will not be…read moregoing to this place again. We only went because we thought it was a NICKLE arcade but it was $0.45-$0.65 a game. There was knock-off games and some really old ones that you could barely see on the tv since it was so old. There's a entrance fee to anyone attending even if you're not playing. The cards/computer was malfunctioning since it said my cards didn't have any points when we had been playing games for a while.... They also do not give you all of your points for some/most games. It's clean I will give them that.

The newest escape room in town. This is a franchised location that has duplicate rooms across the…read morecountry, but because the rooms are made in bulk, you also get a refined room with a lot of fun props. I would recommend this escape room for anyone looking for a light hearted room with an emphasis on decor. These rooms would make great rooms for first timers and the location in the mall makes it pretty easy to get dinner after. It's especially good to go on your birthday for a free room. The staff was fantastic and definitely go above and beyond. Shout out to Rayne and Henry, They're the best.

I went with some friends and this was my first ever experience in an escape room. It was so…read moreinteractive the whole time and they gave you clues with you asked, we did the time travel one and it was tricky at first but it got easy a bit. The difficulty was a 7 and I think we finally finished with 3 minutes remaining. I was going to take pictures throughout, but I was thoroughly enjoying myself, so I didn't even think to take pictures. It was definitely a team effort! The prices surprised us at first, but it was genuinely an honestly worth every penny. They had high quality and clean rooms and equipment, I didn't feel like there was germs anywhere , so the upkeep made me feel more comfortable. We will definitely be back. The only thing is that it was next to a game room and you could hear the people in that room, screaming and cheering that was literally the only thing I would say threw me off when we were trying to solve the clues and really get into character of our atmosphere.

Overall, this was a great experience. :) I went with a group of 15 or so friends. We first started…read morewith orientation and an assignment to different groups. I didn't really get the point of the different groups, and maybe would have appreciated a bit more explanation as to why. We didn't stay in those groups once we entered. Inside, the sets were incredible. A few of the rooms felt like something out of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion. I've done a handful of escape rooms but this one was far more technical in its effects, and much more elaborate in its sets. Very cool. I think it's a little challenging to do this scale of 4 or 5 rooms in one larger puzzle with a large group, because it's hard to keep up with what's been solved and what hasn't, and what all the clues are. Lots of duplication of efforts. But that's just the nature of a large group, and it would be the same in any size of escape room. We received a lot of hints we didn't ask for, and they were helpful. The ending was really impressive -- again, moments from classic Disney rides come to mind. Great puzzles with lots to feast on visually.