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    Dante | Atlanta, GA

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    A Quest For Freedom

    A Quest For Freedom

    Olde City Escape Games

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    A bit different, since you are trying to find seven items instead of one item or a passcode to escape. But in practice this means it felt like we were regularly hitting dead ends and then having to reassess what to do next. Also, some of the clues we found we didn’t end up using, but we still finished the room, so in other words they were not all that intuitive. Still, an okay room.
    Baker Street Mystery

    Baker Street Mystery

    Expedition Escape

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    This isn’t a bad game, but after Lucky Dice Diner at the same location was SO awesome, it was fairly disappointing. The theming is very basic, and most of the puzzles involve finding laminated pieces of paper. On top of that, we needed more hints than we usually do as some of the puzzles I did not find intuitive. This feels like a much older game than Lucky Dice, and like one you could play anywhere.
    Grimm

    Grimm

    The Lost Room Escape Adventures

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    Bunker B-57: Expédition Plutonium ! [Bunker B-57: Plutonium Expedition!]

    Bunker B-57: Expédition Plutonium ! [Bunker B-57: Plutonium Expedition!]

    The Little Red Door

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    As a fan of the Fallout game series, I got a kick out of this legally-distinct-from-Fallout room. It had a really unique mechanic for making sure you have the full 60 minutes to escape, which I won’t spoil. There was a good puzzle variety with very few locks, lots of props, and even some video and audio clips. Also, very accessible to non-French speakers, with all relevant info in English as well. My wife and I finished with two minutes to spare and no hints needed.
    Classified: Operation Nine Lives

    Classified: Operation Nine Lives

    Escape Artist Greenville - Downtown

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    It’s hard to talk about this room without spoiling it, but it’s simply one you have to see for yourself. Innovative, whimsical, and a little challenging. The prrrfect room? I dunno but it’s a lot of fun!
    Darkcade

    Darkcade

    101 Escape Rooms - Oaks Mall Location

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    Fairly linear, lots of various locks and combination locks, but still a lot of fun. Flowed well, puzzles made sense, and some creative interactive elements with the arcade theme. Only needed one hint and it was something we probably should’ve noticed on our own. Would do more games with this company.
    Die Kunst Des Stehlens [The Art of Stealing ]

    Die Kunst Des Stehlens [The Art of Stealing ]

    TeamEscape Köln (Rheinauhafen)

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    A nice-looking room, decent theming. It’s always hard to judge a room without bias when you failed to escape. I do think there were issues with the translation to English that held us back, and some of the props were stuck and needed more force than we’re used to using. Without spoiling it, one of the large puzzles probably needed us to get pen and paper and draw out a logic-problem grid, but by that point we were too flustered to do so. If you’re German, you may have better luck with it than we did.
    Dr. Fratelli's Cabin

    Dr. Fratelli's Cabin

    Escape Artist Greenville - Downtown

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    We’d done a dozen escape rooms before, but this was the first one my wife and I did on our own. Fantastic time! I won’t spoil anything but it was a really impressive room. The GM (wish I had her name!) was amazing and really enhanced our experience.
    Gold Rush

    Gold Rush

    The Escape Game - King of Prussia

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    This was a fun room with a wide variety of puzzles and some interesting gimmicks I’d never seen before. Everything was built around the central theme really well. We only needed one hint, and in retrospect it was a fair puzzle we could’ve gotten on our own if we hadn’t been short on time.
    Grimm

    Grimm

    The Lost Room Escape Adventures

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    This room is scalable, which means there were fewer puzzles for two people than there would’ve been for three, four or more. Even with that, there was way more to do than we could personally achieve in 60 mins. We received very frequent (unasked for) hints, but in fairness there’s no way we’d have seen the ending if they’d waited for us to ask for help. This is still super well-designed room and a great overall location, just a warning that two is not enough unless you’re elite players.
    Illusion

    Illusion

    Timed Out

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    I’ve always had a soft spot for stage magic so I really enjoyed the theming here. A lot of inventive elements, and very tactile. They really got a lot of puzzles into a single room, some of which were quite tough, but I appreciated that the GM gave us nudges in the right direction for hints rather than just telling us what to do. One critique is that there were remnants of a discontinued puzzle still in the room, which proved a bit distracting at times. Overall had a good time!