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Agent Z.E.N.

Agent Z.E.N.

Mystery Soup Escape Rooms [prev. Lock & Clue Escape Rooms]

  • Escape room
  • IRL
My partner and I had previously done The Inheritance and The Sorcerer’s Curse at the location and wanted a chance to do Agent Z.E.N. before it was going away - I would recommend catching it before it's gone. Although there isn't much there story-wise, the puzzles are varied, pleasing and logically clued, the set well differentiated and expansive, and (this goes for all their games) the staff/GMs are great at reading the room and nudging without overhinting. The Valentine’s duck promotion was also very cute!
A Linhagem de Nostradamus [Nostradamus Lineage]

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).
Agent Z.E.N.

Agent Z.E.N.

Mystery Soup Escape Rooms [prev. Lock & Clue Escape Rooms]

  • Escape room
  • IRL
Boda Borg Boston Quests

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.
Clue - A Walking Mystery [Outdoor]

Clue - A Walking Mystery [Outdoor]

CLUE: A Walking Mystery - Boston

  • Escape room
  • Other
  • Pop up
More of a “walking mystery” than escape room, but several of the nine locations visited during the walking experience did feature escape room style puzzles (on the easier side for family friendliness.) The mystery itself was well designed with red herrings and subplots, and needed the information from all the artifacts to solve correctly. At our Saturday afternoon time slot we had to wait a while at several locations and at the end to get our turn with the solves and the solution verification, so it’s likely better to start early or late in the day to avoid crowds.
Escape from Timeout

Escape from Timeout

Beyond Escape

  • Escape room
  • IRL
The concept of the room is such great fun, and even if it is geared more towards families and kids, our team of two adults enjoyed ourselves very much. As with their other rooms, the puzzle design is logical, well clued in the room, and flows well. There were moments of great delight, and one task that was simple enough, but one I had never done before in an escape room and that was just fun. It was impossible to not smile in this room! Great place to start with beginning escape room players, but well worth doing for experienced ones as a pleasurable puzzle snack.
Escape The City - Boston: The North End [Outdoor]

Escape The City - Boston: The North End [Outdoor]

Escapely - Boston

  • Escape room
  • Other
We did this with a group of 4-6 escape room/puzzle hunt enthusiasts, and found it a really lovely way to spend a sunny Fall Sunday exploring the North End. There was enough to do for four enthusiasts with the rest taking turns carrying the box and navigating the website. Most of the puzzles (except one at the very end) felt connected to the environment and made us look around, which is always a plus. I would definitely consider doing these in other cities I’m not familiar with, but am spending more than a day in.
Madok's Lost Treasure

Madok's Lost Treasure

Society Of Curiosities

  • Escape room
  • Tabletop
This was our first physical game by Society of Curiosities (we’ve done virtual ones before), and they’d packed a lot in the box! It doesn’t come with: a huge box or tons of props, which is great for storage and feels ecologically healthy. It does come with: loads of satisfying puzzles and fun integration of virtual/irl and physical/tactile components in the box, plus nice twists. Hint system is good - we failed in the execution of one puzzle and were able to get ourselves back on track without being spoiled.
Mother Of Frankenstein: Volume 3

Mother Of Frankenstein: Volume 3

Hatch Escapes - Online

  • Escape room
  • Tabletop
I can’t bring myself to thumbs down Volume 3 because it continues a wonderful series (adult, brave, not dumbed down, trusting that people can and will read.) There continue to be aspects that were lovely and not-terribly-frustrating in Volume 3. BUT. There are elements of it that are akin to completely irrelevant can-stacking for the sake of aesthetics, AND the cans are microscopic, fiddly, tear apart easily and interrupt game flow for hours. HOURS. Volume 1 is in our top three at home escape rooms, and Volume 3 is, well, not. We are, however, grateful for the hint system that eventually allowed us to bypass the fiddling and just get to the end of the game without actually setting it on fire in frustration. I love so much about this series, but it is such a shame I can only recommend volume 3 to a person combining the eyesight of a child, finger dexterity of a watchmaker and the patience of a horde of saints. (Or, just bypass the r****)
Pirate Panic

Pirate Panic

Online Escape Room

  • Escape room
  • Virtual
A cute, shortish online room good for kids and beginners - a lot of the puzzles are riddles, but a few need logic and deduction skills. Free!
Something Wicked!

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!