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    Cabin Fever

    Cabin Fever

    A Game of Rooms - Rockville

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    As an escape room enthusiast wanting to introduce my family to the concept, I was pleasantly surprised to find such a high quality room in Rockville! The cabin has strong set design, a lovely (novel) theme, solid puzzles and very friendly staff that integrates you into the experience. I recommend it, if you're in town!
    Case Closed

    Case Closed

    Case Closed Edinburgh

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    I adore Case Closed's Max Sinclair room. It's not the most high tech room. It was clearly put together on a pretty shoe string budget, but there so much loveliness and creativity in each part of this room! The focus is less on escaping and more piecing together the case (if you like The Return of the Obra Dinn, this game is for you). One of my favorites in the UK!
    Operation Gryaznayavoda

    Operation Gryaznayavoda

    In Search Of An Exit

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    cQ Origenes

    cQ Origenes

    clueQuest

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    First of all, I love this theme - it's the cutest and very well-expressed through the set. This room has the best set of all the rooms at clueQuest. Lots of very fun cooperative experiences and puzzles. My one beef is that the digital puzzle is a little fiddly in terms of the controls, but other than I highly recommend this room.
    Expedition Unknown

    Expedition Unknown

    Encrypted Escape - Bethesda [prev. Escape Quest]

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    Excellent set, solid puzzles, although the room is nearly all combo locks, which is at odds with the caliber of the set. Overall, I thought it was cute and fun.
    Full Experience: The Magician of Paris & The Funhouse

    Full Experience: The Magician of Paris & The Funhouse

    Deep Inside

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    The sets, the sound effects and the acting are absolutely top notch. I can't say that the two rooms really integrate all that well as a story - I mean, they connect them, but it still kind of feels like "oh, look, two places we found in the Cité des Martyrs, go explore them". Le palais de l'horreur was my first legitimately scary escape room, one with a live actor. I absolutely loved the first part of le palais de l'horreur, such a creepy setting used to such great effect. The room overall had so many clever details that add to the effect throughout. I would say the puzzles are less of the main draw for either room (understandably so in le palais de l'horreur), but I really enjoyed my experience. I did this as a team of two, which I cannot say I recommend for your first horror room, but fortunately my cousin is far braver than I am. Also learned that "scaredy cat" does not translate into to french and instead you need to tell them that you are a "poule mouillée" to convey the same concept.
    Ghost Patrol

    Ghost Patrol

    Trivium Games

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    Practically perfect. Immersive, humorous and incredibly creative. Playing Ghost Patrol feels like you've stumbled into a lesser known room the Disneyland's Haunted Mansion.
    Haunting at Haruka High

    Haunting at Haruka High

    Omescape - Sunnyvale

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    A very elaborately done room with some good scares. This room is somewhat tame by European standards, but on the scarier side for the US. Set design is fantastic and the various props and puzzles were very very well done. At some points, it felt like I was in a Japanese schoolgirl horror fever dream and I suspect that was basically the point. Easily the best horror game in the Bay Area, which sounds like faint praise because there really aren't that many, but this one is top notch!
    Lost and Found

    Lost and Found

    Hotel Veloria [prev. Kamer 237]

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    I did a lot of top notch rooms while visiting the Netherlands, but Lost and Found remains my favorite of the trip. Such a lovely story, integrated so well with the sets and the creative use of space (also quite like the callbacks to the other rooms in the setting). Disney-level set design with some very lovely puzzles that, for the most part, felt quite natural with themes. Extremely kind staff, who transitioned in and out of his role seamlessly and very much added to the experience.
    Molly's Game

    Molly's Game

    Down the Hatch

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    I play Molly's Game the day after I played The Dome and the two rooms form a fascinating juxtaposition when played back to back. I never had to worry about following the plot in Molly's Game - it really hit you over the head with the plot (which was, honestly, fairly guessable by the second room). The build is extensive, atmospheric and very detailed (although it got a little campy at points). Every aspect of the experience has been thought through and while not everything works, the highs are very ambitious and are incredibly impressive. Overall, I thought the puzzles were somewhat uneven, with some being somewhat prosaic and others very unique. The experience worked well with four players, I think more would be a crowd and two would feel a little lonely. Our GM was great, although the plot exposition ran a little long - but I appreciated understanding how different elements were integrated into the various puzzles.
    O mistério de Fernando Pessoa [The mystery of Fernando Pessoa]

    O mistério de Fernando Pessoa [The mystery of Fernando Pessoa]

    Escape Hunt - Lisbon

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    This is perfectly fine room (cromulent, if you will), nominally themed around the famed Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa. I liked that there was a variety of puzzles, although the first room seemed like it had maybe been pared down from what was originally staged (there were several suggestive objects in the room we never ended up using). Decor is somewhat spare. Very friendly staff.