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    Alice In Wonderland

    Alice In Wonderland

    60Out - Melrose

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    The atmosphere was nice but most of the puzzles felt worn and disjointed. Nothing really flowed well. It was actually a little jarring to have such a beautiful room have such poorly thought out and janky puzzles. Most rooms this low quality look much, much worse. Some puzzles were not puzzles at all (you just folllow instruction), some puzzles dragged on wayyyy too long, and some were poorly synced and difficult to complete. GM was friendly but the room was an uphill battle due to its poor game design. 4/10. Would not recommend this room, even to experienced escapers trying to finish out all the nearby rooms.
    Area 51

    Area 51

    Maze Rooms - Robertson Blvd

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    Hands down one of the best rooms we’ve done. This room is straight up phenomenal! It’s incredibly rare that tech is so well implemented, and this is one of those rare rooms. Bravo
    The Reel

    The Reel

    Puzzle Effect - Denver

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    Black Dragon

    Black Dragon

    Escape Room LA

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    Could’ve been an all timer but some things made this a good but not great room. Our starting point was unclear and we wasted some time in the pre-room when we thought it was still the pregame briefing. The actor is annoying and totally unecessary. More a flaw of the system than the GM himself. This system is just worse than the normal camera system. Best done with 4-6 people. We did with three and was a bit challenging to finish on time with the amount of time we wasted in the preroom. 7/10, but could’ve been 9.5/10 with some easy fixes.
    Cartel: DEA Undercover

    Cartel: DEA Undercover

    60Out - Silver Lake

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    Horrible room with easy and lame puzzles. Confusing and broken puzzles
    Chapter 1: The Bunker

    Chapter 1: The Bunker

    The Bunker Experience

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    Hands down the worst experience at any escape room ever. There is a strange man who follows you around and actively prevents you from solving puzzles or having fun. He won’t give you hints either, but is happy to stand right in the way of anything you need to solve. Do. not. come. here.
    Cyberpunk Samurai

    Cyberpunk Samurai

    Maze Rooms - LAX

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    In a word, yikes. Countless broken puzzles combined with an actively rude and hostile GM made this an all-time low experience. Several (and I mean actually more than I can count) puzzles were broken or not functioning properly. One battery operated gun tool was so worn out you could see the thing turn off from the slightest movements from the batteries being disconnected. “Janky” would be a generous understatement to describe this room. We had several puzzles that clearly had bad sensors or bad installs. Lots of visible wiring with incredibly questionable connections made this pretty unsurprising… I would be shocked if this room ever got beginning to end without a technical glitch, and frankly I’m not sure that a lot of this place’s DIY exposed electrical isn’t a fire hazard. There was maybe only two puzzles where we were NOT jiggling things into place. One puzzle was outright broken. We had to get the GM to reset it, but only after she attempted to gaslight us into having broken it or after first accusing us of doing it wrong. Only when we told her the correct solution for a fourth time did she snap back and say over the microphone “WELL IT WORKED FOR THE LAST GROUP!” She was pretty clearly not engaged with the room, and I suspect she was running several rooms at once or on her phone giving the long delays in response times. The puzzles themselves were all incredibly easy. The only challenging part was getting the shotty puzzles to trigger correctly. We’ve been in some pretty bad rooms, but this is one of the worst I’ve ever encountered. This is the first room I would call a legitimate embrassment. 0/10
    Down The Rabbit Hole

    Down The Rabbit Hole

    Trapped! Escape Room - Upland

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    Fun, but all of the hints have this god awful squealy rabbit voice changer over them that makes the GM literally impossible to understand
    Escobar: Part 1 (The Betrayal)

    Escobar: Part 1 (The Betrayal)

    The Escape Revolution

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    Good but not great. This is one of the few rooms that neither impressed nor disappointed. Most puzzles were straightforward; a were couple non-sensical and convoluted.
    Frost Base Z

    Frost Base Z

    Rabbit Hole Recreation Services

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    Just terrible. Nonsensical logic jumps and a terrible GM. Every clue we received was completely misleading and a waste of time. Perhaps with another GM this room could’ve been okay, but even then it is definitely nothing special.
    Ghost Stories

    Ghost Stories

    Brain Games Escape Room

    • Escape room
    • IRL
    Overall very fun experience. A very linear room. Not a ton of the “aha” or feeling clever moments, but overall still very fun. Great game master. 7/10