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Laura W (she/her)
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Storyteller's Secret
Boxaroo
Escape room
IRL
The atmosphere, story and aesthetics were A+ - a really lovely, immersive experience with a satisfying, inspiring ending. With just two players, some of the gameplay was slowed down by us running back and forth between areas trying to figure out what had changed after certain actions (the otherwise lovely background music was so loud it masked clueing sounds) - thankfully the great GM helped us with nudges. The hint system was one of the nicest I’ve seen. Bring a flashlight if you have trouble with vision in darker spaces! One piece of equipment apparently didn’t work as intended in our game as we were able to get an item slightly out of correct sequence. Overall very highly recommended and well deserving of its multiple accolades!
The Body Shop
Red Fox Escapes
Escape room
IRL
This was only the third escape room we’d ever done, and months later it remains a gold standard for us - immersive, unique, humorous, with diverse, logical puzzles and good flow. I don’t remember any bottlenecks for our two-person team, and the room scales for bigger/smaller teams. The owner who ran the room is great, and took the time to talk to us about the design and philosophy afterwards. The Body Shop tends to be my top recommedation for a Boston area room (along with Boxaroo).
The Heist
Red Fox Escapes
Escape room
IRL
The Keeper And The Fungus Among Us
Headlock Escape Rooms Online
Escape room
Virtual
This was a unique, fun, quirky experience! I had some pre-game concerns about the fit for our team of one escape room enthusiast and two retired parents with minimal escape room experience and varying attention spans, English being none of our first language, and us being in three countries and on two continents. The game was a great success! It worked really well for everyone - the pace was great, music and visuals engaging even for the team member with short attention span who is less of a puzzler, and we really felt we were doing something together. Extra plus for subtitles for the songs and cut scenes! The peek behind the scenes at the end also really added to the experience. I’ve already made a date with a friend new to eacape rooms living in another city to do this together.
Boda Borg Boston Quests
Boda Borg - Boston
Escape room
Other
I get the appeal for kids and teenagers, but for us, Boda Borg was like the worst parts of escape rooms - incredibly high ratio of process to a-ha moment, with the added frustration of having to wait in line to try again. Being there Saturday afternoon also meant that the screaming, squealing and banging on doors by the approximately billion young’uns there seriously intervened with the audio puzzles. For adult questers, it’s likely best to go during the week and definitely do the four hours - otherwise standing in lines is the quest you’ll spend the most time doing.
Threads of Fate
PostCurious
Escape room
Tabletop
The best at-home experience we’ve done so far. It lived on the dining table for days as we came back to it to do an hour or two at a time, and I really miss it! The puzzles were overall fair and satisfying - doable without hints if we slept on it whenever we got stuck. Of course there were a couple of frustrating ones, but even then there was fair clueing (you REALLY needed daylight for one). The world was rich, immersive and emotionally resonant. We actually paused the game for a while before the ending because there was a decision that felt… existential and important? That’s not your everyday puzzle game, and this is not your everyday puzzle game.
The Heist
Red Fox Escapes
Escape room
IRL
Our team of five had a lot of fun with this room that was clearly designed with thought and crafted with care. It hit all the right dramatic beats for a “heist” and contained very nice wow moments that could be shared by most or all of the players. Enough to do for five, with intuitive flow for what to do. Our team struggled with two puzzles, one a bit process-y and a cekestial one where the GM (not one of the owners) seemed to not be responsive for a few minutes despite us asking for a nudge multiple times. These lower notes did not mar the experience and the fun final act - I would definitely take another group here!
Something Wicked!
PuzzlEscape Hudson
Escape room
IRL
We played this at the “less scary” level, which made it delightfully creepy and eerie but not scary-scary (we talked to the GM afterwards and it seems like we could have survived the more scary version; there’s no insane clowns coming at you with chainsaws). The puzzling and the flow were one of the cleanest we’ve seen - most of the puzzles made thematical sense in the game world and we were never at a loss what to do next. There were a few surprises that were just delightful. The one exception to my general love for Something Wicked was a very process-y mechanical puzzle that was very hard for our team of two to complete; the psychologically savvy GM was able to read the frustration mounting in the room and help us out so we could move on and not have the whole game ruined (with a team of four or more, this particular puzzle may not be an issue at all). Highly recommended!
The Mischievous Elves
Ocean State Escape
Escape room
IRL
If you are anything like our team of two - which particularly liked the incongruity of being whisked into a cinnamon-scented holiday landscape in the middle of a hot summer afternoon - you could do much worse than play this room. Sure, it is a bit lock-y/Gen 1, and one bit of one puzzle we believe to be genuinely ambiguous (not great when you’re trying to find a digit). However, there were aspects of the room design that were genuinely charming, a couple of cute wow moments, puzzles that fit the theme, and the owner/GM was super nice. It’s likely great for the kids, or a nice warmup game for adults.
The Inheritance
Mystery Soup Escape Rooms [prev. Lock & Clue Escape Rooms]
Escape room
IRL
This was a really nice, expansive room with satisfying, logical gameplay, several moments of fun a-has, and no puzzles that felt like a miss. Different parts of the room felt distinctive, and clearly a lot of thought had been put into the design, immersion and even a bit of a story unfolding. The first part of the experience was low light (not completely dark), but after that all was thankfully well lit. Everyone on the staff was really friendly, nudges on what we were missing came at the right time but not too intrusively, and care and thought had been put into how we were introduced into the room (as well as the other room we did.) Doable with two people with a bit of experience.
A Linhagem de Nostradamus [Nostradamus Lineage]
Enigma Box
Escape room
IRL
This was the second escape room our team of two had ever done, and we figured it would be too hard for us to finish but wanted to do it anyway as we were vacationing in the town. Yes, it was hard, and too dark for our middle-aged eyes, and had math in it, but in hindsight it was this room that started us on escape rooms as a hobby. First, we truly felt the owner/GM was on our side: there was no penalty for taking hints, and when we didn’t escape in time, he walked us through solving to the end so we could get the theatrical experience of the “final act”. Second, there were zero combination locks. The puzzles were varied and mostly interesting, and though we were new to them and slow, we got to feel smart in different ways. A mechanical puzzle that could have seemed childish was just a blast to complete and fun instead of tedious. Again, despite failing to solve in time, the owner/GM helped us feel we were a good team with good communication (which obviously helps build room escape enthusiasts out of newbies…) This room is clearly an intelligent labor of love and craft by its owner and I would recommend it (unless your pet peeve is dark rooms without flashlights).
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