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You are a group of adventurers who have gone in search of lost explorers in an old mine.

This adventure will take you through winding paths in fantastic places where no one has set foot for thousands of years.

But beware… some rumors say that the path to get there may be more complicated than expected.

One Hour

L'Expédition Maudite [The Doomed Expedition]

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Our new favorite escape room 🤩 and at the same place where we played our second favorite. One Hour Voltaire really is special! The quality of design and GM work put into both Expedition and Abattoir is astounding. The Expedition in particular is an amazing narrative experience, and, like with Abattoir, the creative use of space makes the tomb feel GIGANTIC, even though it isn't! This room is very story driven and divided into many different setpieces.

An elevator ride "down" builds the excitement for the adventure ahead. The first section is a collection of narrow maze-like passageways where the goal is to do some maintenance in the aftermath of the previous expedition. The use of flashlights and protective helmets completely engrosses you into the setting. After the walkie-talkies are in place, you are delivered the key to the main chamber through a dumbwaiter, but not before you get paid a visit by one of the tomb's residents. 🧟‍♂️

The main chamber room is impressive in how much verticality it has, almost like an actual temple! The puzzles here are mostly observational. The most memorable pieces of the room are a laser harp that you have to play some tunes on, and a sarcophogus that one of the players has to enter and be dropped by the others into a secret crawlspace. As the Brave Piglet, this task fell onto me... and I fell onto some cushions, so it was not so bad in the end. 🐷

Not long after, we were reunited, and soon chased by the mummy into the final small chamber, with another memorable puzzle: the scarabs puzzle. From there, a descending spiked ceiling forced us to backtrack to the main chamber, detonate the dynamite to burry the mummies for good, and rush back to the elevator for a welcome rest and an overview of how many points we got.

I really enjoyed the collectible diamonds aspect of the room. Some of the diamonds are encountered as part of the story, some of them are optional. In the main chamber, 4 of the puzzles have alternate inputs which open up 4 optional diamonds. We managed to find 3 of them on out own, and our GM gave us a nudge for the 4th. The other optional diamonds are at the timed scarabs puzzle, where you have to input scarab-color combinations before they vanish from sight. We somehow managed to ace it with our haphazard approach! These diamonds add up to a total of 40 points. You also receive an extra point for every full minute you save under 60 minutes. Which is how we ended up getting 42/40 🥳 (the record is only around 50!). The piglets were really thorough in their diamond sniffing, and the Sunshine Piglet seemed especially happy with the find! 🐷✨💎

The only feedback I would have for improving the experience would be to have more/scarier mummy attacks. The attacks around the first section are overly telegraphed with the alarm and you are readily informed to use the grill to defend yourself.  The mummy is something you kind of forget about between appearances, instead of creating background tension. However, the room would be amazing even without the mummy, so that's more like a cherry on top. There could even be two game modes: safe-mode (no-mummy experience for people who don't enjoy horror rooms and scares) and scary-mode with more tension from the mummy.

I think everyone should experience this room!

Overall a good room.  GM was very good though towards the end clues came a bit fast given they don't actually stop at an hour.   Horror elements didn't feel necessary to us.   Set design very good and lots of puzzles, would recommend but not one of our top escapes

Gael was a great English speaking GM… the game play a sets were on point… definitely want to go back and play the other rooms…

L'Expédition Maudite [The Doomed Expedition]

One Hour – Voltaire

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