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Endurance

Endurance

Locktopia Escape Room

  • Escape room
  • IRL
Olivia was an excellent game master. From the moment we walked in asking if we could make two game work at the end of the night. She offered to stay 20-30 minutes late to give us time to play back to back games. The endeavor: thematic and narrative through and through. Such a fun experience and totally recommend it to all escape room players. It should be considered for a golden lock award by Terpeca and Morty. Project Gateway: less in every way. Still fun. But lacking a lot of connective reasoning. Some puzzles were just illogical and didn’t fit any narrative sense. Sequencing DNA? The story is shut off the gateway. It felt like a nonsense time waster with no explanation as to why we’re doing that. All in all we had a great time and wish we had as fun a game master as Olivia any time we come back to Houston.
School of Magic

School of Magic

Escape Room San Antonio - Stone Oak

  • Escape room
  • IRL
School of Magic is an incredibly immersive experience that gives STRONG Harry Potter feelings. The set design is incredible and has made me think about what’s possible in this game space. There were a good balance of number locks and tech puzzle. But a large amount of reading. Each step created another page of lore to read to lead us to each new puzzle creating a very linear experience. We observed a puzzle solution out of order. But worked methodically to get ourselves back onto the linear path. I loved most of my experience in the room and being the first group to play it commercially (just launched room) I am very comfortable overlooking any speed-bumps from the Murphys law protocol.
Sherlock Holmes: Dark Shadows [prev. Parliament Games]

Sherlock Holmes: Dark Shadows [prev. Parliament Games]

The Exit Game

  • Escape room
  • IRL
First, I want thank the manager/owner for talking with us about the escape room industry while we were deciding to open our own. Second, I agree with the negative reviews about this experience. Puzzles were disjointed, had no flow, some just broken. Game-master wasn’t paying attention and asked us “where are you in the game” if I had any idea where I was in the game, I wouldn’t be asking for a clue. I really hope they take to heart the bad reviews and fix up the experience. Or close it and open a new experience that doesn’t rely heavily on outside knowledge of how escape rooms work. I love this industry and would even offer some help sometime if the owners want direct feedback puzzle by puzzle.
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