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Prison Break

Prison Break

The Escape Game - Orlando

  • Escape room
  • IRL
This is an amazing room. ​ Start to finish this experience is a thoughtful romp of escaping a prison, room-by-room and the logical journey throughout the game play. ​ There is fair and fun split-room start experience which is arguably the best split-room we've played in terms of it's balance, tasks to accomplish and what collaboration is needed to continue the journey. ​ After your initial jail break you have a smart journey to the exit. I'll not spoil the rest of the way but it's a great collection of jail break movies in terms of tasks and environments. ​ The puzzles and tasks offer a nice mix or challenges and some physical ones (crawling is involved for all team mates. ​ A few very smart puzzles which a few were new to us which was fun to experience. ​ This is a great game and while we tackled as a couple, this is definitely a good four to six person room. ​ Highly recommend this room.
The Depths

The Depths

The Escape Game - Orlando

  • Escape room
  • IRL
Such a fun game Might be my favorite sub game. Not that I’ve played an overwhelming amount of submarine games but this one stands out for a few reasons Reason one; this was not a “now press this button” game I’m not a personal fan of escape rooms that feel like an arbitrary “push the button” now mini game. This room really weaves in exploration, story and the sub so well. 2) there is a story and logic for being under water and what happens when you leave the sub 3) it’s a great game There is an abundance of fun puzzles, variety in task and some very unique elements that I can’t describe to avoid a spoiler or two (or five) This is a great one for the whole family. Highly recommend Tidbits: We played a private game which is affordable if you play durning the week Easy parking Lots to do near by Fantastic staff
Crypt Of The Vampire

Crypt Of The Vampire

Mystique Escape Room

  • Escape room
  • IRL
What a fun romp to celebrate Halloween season. The game itself was really fun. Very spooky atmosphere but nothing too scary. This is a good room for those whole like their immersion with some thrills and chills but nothing to be frightened by outside the timer. The story; very thoughtful with some really smart choices for puzzle mapping. I'll share no more here to avoid spoilers but let's just say some very thoughtful storytelling and puzzle mapping are used to make for a fun escape room experience. The puzzles themselves are intuitive, flow with the story and have a good logic. This helped to keep us in the story from minute one through minute 45 (we finished with 15 minutes to spare). This is a fair room and plays a smidge easier than their other rooms - less layered puzzles. This is more straight forward in task and challenge. This is probably best for 3-4 people; 4 if you have some new people you are playing with or the younger crowd. I found this to be the most enjoyable room at this location but would recommend all four here for a fun day. Tidbits: Parking can be a challenge so I'd suggest parking in the Publix parking lot which is right next door Plenty for food and drink options; great one across the street with The Friendly Confines (a Chicago themed spot). Staff is warm and friendly Two clean bathrooms
Space Team One

Space Team One

The Escape Company

  • Escape room
  • IRL
Very fun room - super enjoyable Fun, atmospheric room. Very “alien” vibes for this space room Go into this room understanding this location has very home brew builds which offer strong stories, fun puzzles and good set design. This is their space room which is newly repuzzled and it’s a fun game This played more as a first gen room but it’s still very enjoyable. Good puzzles and puzzling, fun variety of challenges to tackle and the story carried throughout the experience — this was just fun (did I say it was fun … maybe a few times). lol Not my favorite room here but I certainly would recommend it (CSI and Neverland were my favorites) This room plays best with 3-4 but we finished with two (we used nudges to help us finish as this has a high volume of tasks to tackle) If you haven’t been here before it’s really a great spot. They have a lovely bar and fun rooms; great way to spend a weekend
Hillbilly Mayhem

Hillbilly Mayhem

Pemberton Haunted Acres

  • Haunt
  • Haunted house
Amazing location Highly recommend spending the night here or plan accordingly and hit this and Sir Henry’s as they are not too far apart Very thoughtful builds and immersion Generous spacing so you can take it all in. No-contact with the haunts. I was very fond that the actor screaming was at a minimum which frankly really set this one apart as it lets the tension of the environment really do its work. Cannot recommend this location highly enough
The Heist

The Heist

The Escape Game - Orlando

  • Escape room
  • IRL
What a fantastic heist room. Full disclosure, we totally had an off day. Maybe I’m exaggerating a bit but we were not at our best. Regardless, this is an amazing room and I kinda want to replay it when my brain is fully operational. One thing Escape Game does so well is to logic everything. Every element in the room, the puzzles and clues all tie back to not only the theme of the room but the story. This is such a hard thing to do and the team here made it look easy. Laura was our GM and honestly was basically the third member of the team for the day as we missed some obvious elements. If you play this one, and this is something I forget, if they tell you not to touch an item it basically means everything else is fair game. After some other locations I’ve played, I don’t do a good enough job of remembering the rules for what is off limits changes based on where you are at. This is a room you really need to play with the environment and you are rewarded for it. I highly recommend this room. Also wear something warm as one of the two rooms that host The Heist is kinda cold and this is coming from someone who loves the cold. Tidbits: Great location and large parking lot in the back (entrance is off the parking lot not the street front) Plenty to do nearby Rebooking discount These are public rooms. Plan accordingly if you are trying to be an introvert.
Trapped In Neverland

Trapped In Neverland

The Escape Company

  • Escape room
  • IRL
What a phenomenal room. Arguably their best room. Fun theme, some truly unique puzzles and one of the better pirate experiences I’ve played. They did an excellent job of connecting the story to the setting and characters. They gave a thoughtful purpose for the story connection to the puzzling and theme of the room. Genuinely some of the more unique puzzles I’ve played and crazy there was not a lock, key or any usual mechanic in the room. Yes, the room is a bit older and yes it does not have some of the bells and whistles of other contemporary rooms however, this is still a great room. This is roughly our 160th room and this could rank in the top 20 for me in terms of just fun game play and diversity and variety of really cool puzzles. Highly recommend this room to a new to escape room player or someone with more games under their belt than we have. Would pair this with their Suburban Serial Killer room (not for the kiddos based on the subject matter of that room) but Neverland was safe for all ages.
The Basement

The Basement

The Ocala Escape

  • Escape room
  • IRL
What an absolute fantastic room This is peak immersion for a frightfully wonderful spooky story Flawless connection of story to room to puzzling and it’s really even more impressive based on a fairly small foot print This is roughly 165 ish or so room for me and honestly this is in the argument for most immersive scary room Also, this room only shared the name basement with other rooms in the area - completely different story and experience Room probably best for a team or three Our Gm Jasper was amazing Cannot recommend the room highly enough
Cabin in the Woods

Cabin in the Woods

The Ocala Escape

  • Escape room
  • IRL
Super fun room As I understand it this is one of their older rooms but you would not know it from the experience Great story, strong connection to the puzzles and immersion throughout and a nice variety of puzzles for the whole experience This was just a super fun one to play and as I also understand this room might be shuffled out next year so definitely get out to play this one and the basement at this spot Also a big thank you to Jasper our GM who was wonderful
Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper

Lockbusters

  • Escape room
  • IRL
So this was an interesting one. The immersion and build was beautiful. There was awesome fx throughout and great ambience to help really bring you into the setting. For game play, we went from concerned we might not finish to accidentally solving the last puzzle skipping two-three bigger puzzles and finished the room in 40 minutes. We had enough information to solve a puzzle, unbeknownst to us - that was the final puzzle. I did enjoy the room up until that last bit. I would highly recommend The Collector & Cremlocke if you are here. We played them recently and they were fantastic rooms. Tidbits: Rebooking discount Tight parking (there is parking across the street behind Red Robin which is a 1/3 block walk so very easy walk) Lots to eat/drink near by Escape Game is in walking distance
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