The Ladder

The Ladder is more of an experience than an escape room, where each room is a 15-minute container and you are moving through each decade with your chosen character. It’s the best of both worlds in my opinion with the “choose your own adventure” and escape room/arcade game feel. There are multiple pathways to win so you never really lose and you’re doing something the entire time either to get more story or more money. Do it for the plot takes on a different meaning here. When we played the experience, the technical pieces ran smoothly and we came in with the expectation that this was a linear immersive video game. Our game master, Chelsea, is probably the most amazing human ever so that definitely made our HR onboarding a seamless one. We also came on a Wednesday, which significantly reduced the price point for our group. I see the vision of how this is meant to be played more than once and now I want to back to see what other lives I may have lived! I always have completions tendencies so I know there is always going to be that part of me that’s hesitant to shift to a new focus or let a task go. One feedback I would have is to have a much more obvious signal if the games and puzzles were solved. Sometimes, we were not sure if it has already been solved or we messed up along the way. The point is to have fun and we did have a lot of fun. Thank you so much Chelsea and Hatch for a great 50 years 😭

In simple terms... not worth the money for a group of four, almost impossible to do everything in your first try for the room, the mini games are not innovative but rather arcady. And they dont honestly make sense with the story line as one might think. The puzzle part really doesn't make sense to be solved on a first run in the alotted time. It might have been a group size issue, but having done more than 50 escape rooms and finishing them with time remaining, finding ourselves here not able to finish anything feels disappointing. Adding to that the fact that some parts of the " experience " in this room can be accessed only on playing it a second time... Before going into this room, just keep two things in mind: 1- this is something you have to play again ( basically double the already high price ) in case you want to achieve something and have the actual full experience. 2- its a 75% mini games and 25% escape room type of deal ( you would understand what this means if u do the room ) Room design and theme are one of the best we have ever done though, kudos to that.. Bonus: Lab rat is a definite masterpiece though.

Loads of fun. Less of an escape room and more of a choose your own adventure book almost. Would absolutely recommend giving it a try. There are multiple paths all with different endings along with upgrades and modifiers you can earn along the way as you climb the corporate ladder. The room is designed so you play the entire time so you goal isn’t speed but high score. We managed to get just over $1.2 million dollars by the end with the “Messiah” ending.

A truly unique experience that has something for everyone, which is both praise and criticism. If you’re a die hard puzzler and escape room fan, you might leave a little bit disappointed, but if you go with an open mind and know that it’s not so much an escape room as it is a linear immersive video game with puzzles that you can play with up to 10 of your friends, then you’ll have a great time. It’s a unique story, some good twists and turns, really incredible tech and integration, and a great host. I’ve done it twice and thoroughly enjoyed both times, and it is explicitly designed to be repeatable. But your mileage may vary, and a few people in my group enjoyed it but didn’t rank it as high as other escape rooms in the complex like lab rat.

This was a real letdown after this same location's Lab Rat, which is a gem. This is an interesting concept but trying to be too many things to different people, leaving pretty much everyone in my group unsatisfied. Noting that perhaps we're in the minority, for me it was either a very expensive mediocre arcade, or an expensive and unsatisfying puzzling adventure - which nonetheless still makes you play a dull minigame to end the experience and listen to a lot of unnecessary flavor text which hinders rather than supports the experience. The dialog cuts off gameplay and won't give you "credit"for anything you accomplish after the dialog begins - an unfun design for a. escape. My thought: play Lab Rat here, then go to Level 99 or Dave & Busters. This is nominally an "escape room," but it's best to think of this as an arcade here in each room you choose "arcade/minigames" or puzzles. The puzzles are good but too sparse, and you really need a dedicated team focused only on the puzzles to solve them. The minigames, sadly, are boring - think of an expensive arcade with less fun puzzles (stacking boxes, scanning barcodes, clicking buttons - seriously). Even worse, it's not always clear which items pertain to the puzzles and which to the minigames. In one particular room, the hint leading us to the puzzle track led us to a minigame - and we lost about a minute before we realized the minigame was repeating again and then found the puzzle track we needed hiding under the minigame. In this same room, we actually finished the puzzle track, but we didnt get credit for it because the ending audio had just begun - artificially cutting off our "successful" puzzle. So we were forced to listen to the audio while we were still trying to get the game to register our completed puzzle. Naturally, this isn't fun... We had told the GM ahead of time we wanted to do the puzzles, but little help was given when we found ourselves offtrack due to the lack of clear sign posting. A bummer all around.

Very fun experience! we have a replaying friend and she had explained the rules and assigned the tasks so we didn’t scramble too much (but still a lot lol). We’ve chosen the “right” character, made “right” choices, worked hard, and finally achieved the success ending! It’s definitely repeatable so I’m ready for the superior ending next time!

Not your typical escape room. The puzzles are very unique and innovative, none like I’ve experienced before. As stated there are 2 tracks you can follow. The puzzle track is definitely not beginner friendly and was difficult for my group of friends even though we have completed many escape rooms previously. They stated that this escape room is meant to be replayable and although the puzzles and games were fun, I left the escape room feeling disappointed and that this “replayable” aspect is just a money grab. There were also 2 rooms that had machines that were not functioning correctly.