So I have been sitting on writing this review for a bit. Their are a few things that I want to touch base on but their is also a lot to say.
As a person who has played escape rooms all over Minnesota, I would say that I have a bit of experience under the ole' belt.
I've been to the Escape Game, Breakout Games, Escape Game; Dallas, TX, Mission Manor and then some. So in total probably about 10-12 escape rooms total. And most escape rooms have a general type of safety within them. Most of the places you will go will nail/glue everything down so solidly that you will be unable to remove them without extensive force.
The thing about Tactical Escape was that it was not like that all. In fact, their were many possibly breakable items within the room, that even I felt a bit uneasy about it. Booty bump there, and hip movement here and you could easily knock a vase or lamp over and it would come crashing down.
But that wasnt the worst part. In fact the part that the three of us disliked the most was out game room operator.
Like I stated before we are pretty experienced in our escape rooms, and we throughly enjoy them. Most of the time a game room operator is helpful without being TOO helpful.
But ours was very condescending and patronizing. It made you almost want to stop the escape room and just leave. When we asked for hints they werent helpful what so ever and were obvious things like " "TZ__" is not a word."
Often times the game operator would just drop in mid discussion about something to give us a hint or clue. And although that is great at times, each time this occurred we would have to ask for them to repeat it since we could not hear them due to us discussing with one another and not expecting them to say anything. And when we would ask them to repeat it they seemed very bothered and upset that they had to repeat themselves.
Not to mention, when we first arrived the game operator, who was the only one there, insisted that we not do the room that we have scheduled and paid for because we were below the recommended amount of people for the escape room. And when I mean insisted. We spent a good amount of 10-15 minutes arguing with the game operator that we still wanted to do the escape room.
The immersion of the game was really broken too. The ceilings werent full. They left about 2 feet of wall away from touching the ceiling. And many of the items in the room did not fit the time period that the game was set in. (We played a Sherlock themed game, so that should help to visualize the time period.)
Many of the items that were used seemed like they were Frankensteined together to fit the escape room appeal but didnt fit the time that the escape room theme belonged in.
Bottom line: Nope. Not doing this escape room again. I would check out others, and more professional ones. read more