Guardian Of Gotham

If you enjoy interactive escape rooms, Clue Chase will not disappoint! I will write a brief blurb about each room below, but overall Clue Chase has been one of my favorite franchises in NYC to date. I hope they open a new adventure soon! The one critique I have of the company in general is that their "theme" is based on finding an "artifact" from different time periods, but that does not really factor much into gameplay. However, there are so many positives about Clue Chase, the #1 being their staff! Everyone is animated and excited to be there, and it just makes the experience so much better! You also get a discount if you book your next adventure that day. The regular price is $35/person plus fees and taxes. Guardian of Gotham - Group of 4 If you prefer superheroes to pirates, this would be my second recommendation! Like Pirates, this room is extremely interactive and the puzzles rely on tech to unlock stuff. 4 is a good number for the room because there are a lot of tasks to do at first. I went with a similar group of people that I did Pirates, and we agreed that the puzzles were a little easier in Gotham than Pirates. Mac was a great moderator!

GMs introducing the room were incredibly high-energy and enthusiastic, but the room itself was basic and uninteresting. Red herring elements of the set looked important but were never used. Things felt pretty run-down and worn-out. 2/5

As soon as you step off the elevator you are transported to the PanIQ waiting room and it’s an awesome transition. Finding it was only possible because we knew it was on the 4th floor, otherwise you’d never know from the street (no signage). We were greeted by Gus who was our very enthusiastic, helpful and attentive game master. The only thing we noticed is that our time kept stopping, I forgot to ask about this before we left, I’m assuming he was typing clues and didn’t want to take from our time but we would randomly turn around just to check the timer and the time was paused. Once in the room it was unclear where to start as there are multiple puzzles just waiting to be solved in order to open a new set of puzzles. Most were pretty intuitive and some were not but I appreciated how they worked once we figured it out. The set design was pretty standard, I noticed there were no audio clips playing when significant changes occurred like after we solved something or whenever the giant screen in the room began showing something new, it took a moment to realize we did something right. The story had a lot of lead up which may not have all been necessary for how standard the room was and the lack of indication that we were progressing. Difficulty was medium and definitely possible with just a group of 2.

ehhh the room looks cool when you walk in but all the props are old and worn out not horrible just mehh

Poorly themed room, unintuitive puzzles. The worst of the four at paniq.

Everyone was super nice, the room is old and rundown. I played solo and made it out with around 10 min to spare. There are lots of puzzles though and this room def scratches the itch.

Not a fan of mostly keypad based rooms. Some puzzles didn’t make sense and asking for clues made us more confused. Lou was amazing though and I highly recommend him to be your game master! His energy was amazing and was our favorite part of the experience.

Our game master was delightful. Thank you, Gus!

Cool room and cool puzzles, the only problem is that some of the puzzles are too similar so once you’ve solved one you’ve solved a lot. We had a full room and there was not nearly enough to do and many people were standing around at different points. Probably better with a smaller group.

I personally am not a big fan of rooms with video game elements. I think it removes some of the escape aspects. And in a lot of ways, Guardian of Gotham does not feel like an escape room. It is a room that requires cooperation to get through. On the positive end, some of the puzzles were a lot of fun to decipher and one of the few that could reasonably leave the whole team feeling useful