Submarine Survival

Just joined this app, so this is a review from an experience from over a year ago. The staff/room may have changed. The room has some really neat technology, but we never really enjoyed it because we finished the game with more than 17 minutes remaining. Any time we would be stuck (“stuck”), the GM would literally give us the answer, so we blazed through the room. I wouldn’t recommend doing this room with any sort of large group, because everything was so linear that there weren’t very many ways for people to spread out and individually contribute. Maybe could do this with three people max and have it be okay.

Way too linear for my liking. That and we were told not to do something by the game master pretty early into the escape room (as opposed to telling us not YET). That (mis)direction just led us down a wrong path and wasted too much time. Overall, I’ve had better experiences.

This game was a little frustrating at times. The guide saw us check a jacket and then let us spend 9 minutes without checking if we missed that key in the jacket, which we did. If he would’ve checked or clarified, we would’ve made it out. We essentially lost on the last puzzle. I do think the room itself and some of the props were really cool looking, but the technology puzzle locks you out for 30 seconds every single time you enter something in wrong, which makes you nervous to put in another code for fear that you’re going to get locked out again. That being said, even if you have the correct idea, it’s hard to tell what exactly to push on the technology puzzles themselves to match what you’re thinking. Alternatively, there were a few puzzles not related to the technology board that I thought were pretty neat, but the game is also extremely linear, so it’s not intuitive on where to start and what order to do things in. It’s also pretty math heavy, so it can feel tedious at times with trying to figure out the math. Overall, it looks cool, but several issues were had with story, game flow, and technology.

Immersive and a variety of puzzles. Did this room a couple times with different sets of friends .

This room was math forward and somewhat frustrating at times.