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Prison Break

Prison Break

The Escape Game - NYC Midtown

  • Escape room
  • IRL
This room was good, but not my favorite at The Escape Game. Fair warning, this room was sequential. There were only 4 of us but sometimes there was a person standing around with nothing to do because only so many people could look at one puzzle at a time. One thing did not trigger for us and we had to call attention to it for the GM to trigger, but besides for that everything else was fine. Room was good, but didn’t super live up to the high expectations I have for The Escape Game.
Geneva Trail

Geneva Trail

Evolution Escape Rooms

  • Escape room
  • IRL
This was one of the most disappointing escape rooms I have ever been to. FIRST OF ALL, this is located inside of an “extreme park.” If you book before you get there, there is no indication that you also need to pay admission to the place itself, but you do. Its only $5 a person but arriving to do a room after having paid hundreds of dollars online and then being told you need to pay an additional $5 a person just to enter the facility is extremely frustrating and felt deceptive. The staff are clearly not trained to be game masters. If you are used to escape rooms where the people working there add anything to your game, forget about it. They don’t tell you the story, they don’t seem to have a way to see you in the room, and they only communicate over walkie talkies. They do not always respond immediately over the walkie and they accidentally gave us a clue when someone else asked for help. Upon escaping, they didn’t even congratulate us or offer to take our picture. They also didn’t tell us how fast we escaped without us explicitly requesting that information. There is no way in the room to see how much time has passed unless you ask for a time check on the walkie. The room had some cool theming aspects but it was ruined by the do not touch stickers that were placed all over everything and things that were clearly falling apart due to age and lack of repair. Finally, the puzzles. There are very few puzzles in the room. Almost everything was find something and do something that is explicitly stated. Ie: find a key and put it in the lock. Or find a code written somewhere and put it in the place it specifically shows you to put it in. There were only 2 puzzles that actually required you to solve for the answer. They both involved some basic math so warning for people who hate math. I am trying to make this as spoiler free as possible, so without saying too much one of the puzzles required using a tool that was set to the wrong setting with no indication of the proper setting. It also was extremely temperamental so you sometimes had to use the tool multiple times. After being frustrated trying the same thing multiple times and being sure we were doing the right thing, we eventually had to call the game masters for help. They didn’t respond the first 2 times we called for help, waiting multiple minutes in between and when we finally got help, that was when we realized it was set to the wrong setting. Overall, a disappointing experience and I would not recommend doing it. It was frusterating because I did an escape room here many years ago and remembered it fondly. I don’t know if this room is just worse, if things have changed, or if I was just an inexperienced player then.
Mayan Temple

Mayan Temple

Red Button Escape

  • Escape room
  • IRL

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 �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 𓅟𓂿

Special Ops: Mysterious Market

Special Ops: Mysterious Market

The Escape Game - NYC Midtown

  • Escape room
  • IRL
The game was okay, though we had a group of 5 and there were times where it was difficult for all of us to be working on something due to limited puzzles and space. And while there were a few collaborative puzzles, many of them were really only for one person. I think this room would work a lot better with a very small group of people. Some of the puzzles needed to be very precise. I’ve done a few games at The Escape Game and I think this is one of the older ones and you can definitely feel it compared to their other rooms. Still a solid room, but not as updated as some of their newer rooms.
Serial Killer

Serial Killer

Break Out Charleston

  • Escape room
  • IRL
This room was recommended to me and I was surprised. Many of the puzzles in the beginning of the escape are not actually something you have to solve, it’s just finding something but there are A LOT of things to find and put. Once you get to the end, the puzzles get more interesting but by then you will probably be out of time. For some of the hints, our DM had to just tell us the answer and couldn’t give us a hint because of how straight forward the puzzles are. Would have preferred something that required more thinking and less searching.
Pirates of the Dark Sea

Pirates of the Dark Sea

Just Escape

  • Escape room
  • IRL

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 �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 𓅟𓂿

Escape from 20,000 Leagues

Escape from 20,000 Leagues - CLOSED

The Great Escape Room - Long Island [prev. Puzzle Break]

  • Escape room
  • IRL

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 �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 𓅟𓂿