Whatever Happened To The Garretts?Maze Rooms - West LAEscape roomIRLCool story progression. Did solo. Puzzles are medium. Really liked it.
Surf's UpSurf City EscapesEscape roomIRLDid solo but needed extra hands at one point. Room was cool dude. Puzzles medium and nice setup.
Flynn's ArcadeBrain Games Escape RoomEscape roomIRLReally fun room. Loved the beginning. Loved the overall story and flow. Very much feels like what i was hoping for with this particular movie theme. Also cool bonus for having a Tron arcade game in the lobby.
Chapter 3: The MorgueOff The Couch GamesEscape roomIRLLoved this room. Much more scary than the first two chapters. Be prepared. No jump scares. Just thematically more scary than spooky (especially if you get into it). This was an amazing room. OTC really cares about its game design. And it shows. Puzzles are unique and appropriate for the theme.
Cosmic CrisisThe Escape Game - MilpitasEscape roomIRLI loved this room. I did this solo and got to the final puzzle with two minutes left (but needed one clue I decided for the sake of time management). Could be done with two people. Best to do it with 3-4 people. 4-5 for novices and beginners. They might add people to your group and anything more than 5 and it gets crowded. Game design was excellent. Puzzles were medium to hard but not very hard. I could see where one would find these puzzles very hard but this is my kind of room so I found them moderately challenging but doable. There is an added challenge in one of the puzzles when you know what needs to be done, how do you do it with what you have. Sorry if you think that could be a spoiler. Something didn’t work quite right on my experience even though I did it right and the gm had to do a minor assist.
Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient ExpressEscapology - San RamonEscape roomIRLGreat average room. Only need 2-3 people.
Agent TokyoLimitless Escape Games - PleasantonEscape roomIRLI tried to do this solo. Which I feel like it should be possible, but I got caught up in the multiple misclues. One the Fri-Sun they’ll add people with you so I tried on a dead timeframe so I could try solo.
Wizard's Treasure60Out - HollywoodEscape roomIRLGreat and fun room but on the easy side. I still enjoyed the hell out of it. Props to Derrick for being a cool gm and for making the very cool lobby decorations.
RobotopiaOmescape - SunnyvaleEscape roomIRLOverall a great room but it does not crack my top 10 (in my bio). While its puzzles are well done and could be considered hard, when I look back, none were extremely challenging. Other rooms at Omescape had much harder and abstract puzzles. I also take issue with the two puzzles that had repetitiveness. In one case it was confusing to the progression, unnecessarily so (at least imo, others on my team weren’t as critical as I). The other repeated puzzles was fine cuz we had 6 people. If we were only 4 I would’ve found the repetitiveness even more annoying. Others in my group had no issue with it. But very very fun room and a well deserved reputation.
The Vanishing ActLocurioEscape roomIRLGreat room that my team sucked at. Even after we knew what belonged to what, which could be very challenging to determine, it was hard. Live actor was amazing once again for their location. Very satisfying room. Not as good as story keeper at this location but still extremely fun.
Mystery At Innsmouth: An Official Arkham Horror Escape Room - CLOSEDHourglass EscapesEscape roomIRLFun room with a cool inn vibe to start. Interesting beginning. A mix of new and classic puzzles both which could be anywhere from easy to hard which (tiny spoiler)….are ranked by difficulty in the game. Very enjoyable room.
Evil Dead 2 - CLOSEDHourglass EscapesEscape roomIRLI can’t remember watching Evil Dead 2 but I loved Army of Darkness. This room was fun for our group.
The StorykeeperLocurioEscape roomIRLThe live actor really enhanced this room and then left us to our adventure. Changed my mind about live actors in escape rooms. Amazing story, puzzles were clever and one was super hard for our group. Truly is an exciting room.
The ExperimentCognition EscapesEscape roomIRLI was surprised by this room. A few puzzles were more challenging than I expected. We left the room extremely satisfied. The waiting area has a puzzle box that was really fun. Go a little earlier on this one.
Rise of The Mad Pharaoh - CLOSEDHourglass EscapesEscape roomIRL𓆜𓋘𓄁 𓊛𓇙𓋸𓌤𓌥 𓌦 𓅐𓆢 𓆣 𓀉𓆤 𓆥 𓅑𓆘 𓆙 𓅒𓄙 𓄚 𓄛 𓅓𓃺 𓃻 𓅔 𓅕 𓃕 𓃖 𓃗 𓎷 𓄁𓎸𓅖 𓅽 𓅾 𓅿𓅗 𓅘 𓇆 𓇇𓅙 𓅚 𓁵 𓁶𓂵 𓂶𓃝𓋲 𓋳𓀬 𓅛𓁃 𓂺𓅜 �𓅝𓃄 �𓄁𓅞𓂙 𓅟𓂿 𓆜𓋘𓄁 𓊛𓇙𓋸𓌤𓌥 𓌦 𓅐𓆢 𓆣 𓀉𓆤 𓆥 𓅑𓆘 𓆙 𓅒𓄙 𓄚 𓄛 𓅓𓃺 𓃻 𓅔 𓅕 𓃕 𓃖 𓃗 𓎷 𓄁𓎸𓅖 𓅽 𓅾 𓅿𓅗 𓅘 𓇆 𓇇𓅙 𓅚 𓁵 𓁶𓂵 𓂶𓃝𓋲 𓋳𓀬 𓅛𓁃 𓂺𓅜 𓂨𓅝𓃄 𓄁𓅞𓂙 𓅟𓂿This review contains spoilers.Unscramble𓀗
Lost CityEscapology - StonestownEscape roomIRLI’m an experienced escape artist. This is such a beginner room. As beginner room as you can get. I did this room two other experienced players and we could have gotten out in less than 30 min if we didn’t overthink it.
Wizard SchoolLimitless Escape Games - LivermoreEscape roomIRLDecent average room. Very cool theme. A couple of cool puzzles.
The MorgueLimitless Escape Games - PleasantonEscape roomIRLAverage room. Not bad. Not great. It’s a public room on the weekend and the maximum people is too much imo. But if you do this room on the weekday it’s private. This place also has an axe and ale place connected to it.
Dragon AlleyKeystone Escape GamesEscape roomIRLAwesome room! Best in Reno. Definitely worth it in Morty medals and Terpeca nominees. I loved it. Almost everything about it I loved. Definitely in my top 10.
Blood of the OriginalKeystone Escape GamesEscape roomIRLDecent room. Not difficult for the experienced. Great for the beginners. Good set design. Very enjoyable. I did solo but if you have more than 3- 4 experienced players then some may be bored. 4 newbies will love the hell out of this room. ***Also found out they have some customizable puzzles so if you’re really experienced just say you want the puzzles on hardest option instead of the medium or easy option just in case.
