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You’ve been hearing disturbing rumors about your neighbor. Once you see him leave his house, you decide to check things out to see if those rumors are true. Find out what secrets your neighbor is hiding before he comes back and finds you snooping around. Just stay away from the shed out back or you may never leave.
- 2-10
- 60 mins
- Medium
- Spooky
Reviews
omgbutwht
37 escape rooms
This company is inflexible when it comes to starting on time which is not shared at the time of booking. The room makes some logical sense at the beginning and then your imagination needs to stretch to figure out the room. Loved the size of the rooms and the spooky elements.
Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Ideal number of players
3
Berin
74 escape rooms
Fun but definitely a little spooky. You’ll be doing a lot of puzzles in a darker room
Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Parking
Easy
mollems
486 escape rooms
I’ve enjoyed games at this venue in years past, but hadn’t been here since before the pandemic. Unfortunately the design and execution of this room is firmly stuck in the past. I would have given it an “okay, nothing special” in 2015, but in 2023 it’s a “don’t bother unless you are really desperate to play an escape room” kind of situation. The plot is minimal, the design is linear, most of the puzzles yield four-digit combinations or keys to padlocks, and the scenery is in somewhat shabby condition. The few non-lock (put the objects in the right place) puzzles are fiddly, requiring precise placement. It’s a decidedly non-horrifying horror theme. All in all, I didn’t *hate* it, but I can’t think of any reason to recommend it, either.
Gameplay
Basically a series of linear puzzles, each of which either gives you a code or a key to unlock the next one. A couple of non-lock puzzles. More use of blacklight / UV ink than I would like to see in an escape room in 2023. This might have been a passably decent room in 2015, but it doesn’t do anything that you haven’t seen in a dozen other rooms.
Atmosphere
Overall the set does enough to convey the theme and that’s about it. Several pieces of scenery are in poor repair. If there was an intro video or any other explanation for why we were in this location, we didn’t receive that story briefing: the game just started. You do find some story as you go along in the form of newspaper articles, police reports, a diary, and so forth, and those at least add something. But overall this could have been any random room full of arbitrarily locked objects.
Customer service
Particularly interesting or different
No
Story
A few of the puzzles are integrated into the story. Most aren’t. Several are nonsensical (as in, they have no plausible reason to exist within the game world except that four-digit locks need four-digit combinations).
Difficulty
Medium
There is a lot to do; though the game is linear and the puzzles are mostly not great, there are a lot of puzzles. This is sort of like the old “the food was bad and the portions were too small” complaint, but I genuinely don’t think the designers set out to make a simple or easy room: there is legitimately a lot of content to plow through in an hour.
Game tech
Mechanical
Ideal number of players
3
Scary
Not scary
It’s a horror theme but unless a few plastic “severed body parts” scare you, you’ll find little to be afraid of.
Minimum age
13
Was anything broken?
Yes
One “put the objects in the right place” puzzle was exceptionally fiddly, to the point where the game master told us to just keep repeating the same action until the thing finally opened. Several of the locks are in rough shape. Some of the scenery is falling apart.
Live actors
No
Physically active
Not at all
Accessibility
About a third of the game (including the ending) is in a smaller area that isn’t accessible (it’s not a full hands-and-knees crawl, more of a “stoop and shuffle” situation, but low and narrow nonetheless). They do disclose this on the website, to their credit. About a third of the game takes place in a dark (not pitch black) area. You’re given a lamp but it didn’t do much for us.
Easy to find location
Yes
Parking
Easy
jsummrs
75 escape rooms
This wasn’t a favorite of mine. The initial room could use a little more of an immersive feel given that it is supposed to be dark and creepy. Feels more like a waiting room in a doctor’s office. The GM gave way too many clues that we didn’t ask for to ‘try to get us moving along’… yet we escaped with 13 minutes to spare and were 8 minutes late (thank you, Fogo de chao) so they started the clock. We finished the room in 37 minutes. I don’t think we needed any help. The second we stopped to think we got a voice above pushing us along. The doors to the next rooms were readily available to enter yet once we open it, we get a voice saying we aren’t ready to go in there yet. This room would have been a lot more fun if we had to actually think about the game and puzzles. We are not novices and didn’t ask for any clue but one. Which is not the clue we needed at the point we were at. I never leave negative reviews and I didn’t hate the room, just didn’t like the way the company plays the game, I guess.
Gameplay
Atmosphere
Hard to give this a thumbs up just because of the initial reaction I had to the room as we entered. Of course, the atmosphere got better as we played through, so a thumbs up is warranted. I was definitely underwhelmed by the entry.
Customer service
Welcoming? No. Friendly? Yes. Way too many hints we never asked for. Finished the room in 37 minutes… we felt as though they were pushing us through like cattle. The waiting room was packed at all times and you watch the pre-video in the waiting room with other guests. It was a strange feeling. As we are watching our video, we have another group who just finished their room watching our video with us while their GM was commenting on our game and we were getting their commentary. Not a fan of this method.
Particularly interesting or different
No
Story
Difficulty
Easy
Game tech
Mechanical
Ideal number of players
4
Scary
Spooky
Minimum age
13
Was anything broken?
Yes
There was an element that was broken and when we completed a task, we were told to move the item ourselves even though there is a do not touch sticker on it.
Live actors
No
Physically active
Somewhat
Easy to find location
Yes
Parking
Easy
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