White House Down

It’s hard to do this room justice with just a summary. The atmosphere is fantastic and draws you right into the story within seconds. So you find yourself hoping for a room that will blow you away. While some puzzles were really cool and fitting—reinforcing that hope for greatness—others were surprisingly unengaging and didn’t always make sense in terms of the storytelling. It was also unclear what needed to be done first. We would have liked more confirmation during the longer puzzles that we were on the right track. The host was great. He chimed in at just the right moments and made us laugh. Overall, a very good room that, in my opinion, could even be great with just a few changes.

A huge rooms with a lot of puzzles to work through in this 75 minute game. The puzzles were fine but similar in that they mostly relied on observations

At the core this is an “office” themed game without much depth. The game is very dependant on number combinations, and overall the puzzles to figure out those combinations aren’t too exciting. There’s two neat puzzles that form the exceptions, but solving some of the others feels like busywork without much excitement or fun. Unfortunately the finale to the room is quite anticlimactic and is missing some clear direction, so it ends up being a bit of guesswork without much logic behind it. Due to how the room is split, also expect to crawl quite a bit when you book this game!