The Lost Expedition

Really really frustrating that the reviews here have so many unflagged spoilers about this room and Morty doesn’t automatically flag certain content. I would strongly suggest not reading other reviews if you want to avoid any spoilers. This room has some incredibly novel components that place it in a separate category of escape room. It’s a must try in the area.

Awesome room!!! Split start with lots of collaboration necessary. Very inventive timer mechanics based on fuel utilization. Great puzzles- challenging but well laid out with solid clues in the room. Room definitely designed for 4 people, but doable as a team of 2. Our GM was great as well- thanks Manny for an amazing experience!

Lovely experience. Essentially linear gameplay, puzzles each individually satisfying. Unique split start- required independence (maybe because we were a team of only two?). We each had to solve a couple puzzles on our own before reuniting - which we enjoyed! Thanks Steal and Escape - we can’t wait for your new room!

Fun room with a unique spin. The puzzles are good, the atmosphere is good, the ending is great. My favorite at this location.

Most of the reviews already cover the main points of this room. It's an adventure type escape room where everyone has a different assigned role, and there is the really novel concept of having a certain amount of Fuel instead of a traditional timer. The more things you keep on (mainly lights), the faster you burn fuel and the less time you'll have to finish the escape. We had 30% fuel remaining when we finished (and had been inside for 58 minutes supposedly). Depending on your fuel usage, your game experience can be anywhere between 10-90 minutes. Note that our group was super conservative with fuel, to the point it was slightly detrimental. Word to the wise, this room is REALLY REALLY DIM/DARK if you don't turn on more lights. And this room requires noticing a lot of DETAILS. So take those things into consideration. There are a decent amount of things to do, and they are of a good variety. Note that different roles have different tasks and are given different tools, but after the initial split-start (surprise!), anyone can help out anyone else and roles can be more fluid. I was the geologist, and I certainly could have done better. The geologist definitely has to do the most thinking and a lot of communicating for the team to complete core parts of the game. That's a good note to have when assigning roles among yourselves at the start. Other roles have more straightforward responsibilities. But once again, anyone is free to help another out and you should work together anyways. This was a very fun game. We played with 4 people. It can go up to 8, but I think 4 was a solid number due to the size of the physical space. Overall, it's a medium difficulty but there are parts that are definitely tricky and I could see teams losing valuable time/fuel being stuck on them. Just like Missing Season, it's not really a combo lock room. A lot of the puzzles are physical puzzles or built into the set. The set is themed well, but not the most impressive visually haha.

Our GM was enthusiastic to show off the room. I love the idea of introducing roles for players, and I think there’s room for more usage of the roles. This room is best with 4-6. It’s not super techy or immersive, but it doesn’t need to be. The puzzles were intuitive, creative, nonlinear, and required communication between players. The timing aspect of the room is really cool and interesting. The room is a lot of fun, and they offer difficulty adjustments. We enjoyed ourselves a lot.

If you bring kids make sure to have one adult with each kid We finished our room with “time” to spare, but I felt a lot of insecurity about if we were going down the right paths of figuring out.. like we wasted a lot of time trying to do a puzzle and it was on the wrong …. …. and that didn’t need to happen, also, low light. I liked it in general though, despite the low light. We all had fun and there were many innovative aspects. I loved the neighbor more. Seemed like the puzzles were not quite clear I guess, in some cases The lobby has a puzzle!

A good room for teamwork. We liked this room a lot but preferred The Neighbor at Steal and Escape a bit more. An innovative way to control the time countdown.