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You and your fellow true-crime podcast hosts have found the perfect story for your next season. Shadow Hills Carnival was shut down over 50 years ago after visitors started vanishing. Local legend speaks of a mysterious person that runs the abandoned carnival once a year. Can you survive the night and report the true story to your loyal fans?
All ratings (127)
Very Positive
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6 escape rooms
Definitely some scary/creepy components that would not be good for some players.
Linear, which was great for our small 2-person group.
Awesome - way better than expected.
Great GM.
Next level compared to most escape rooms weβve done.
M
24 escape rooms
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32 escape rooms
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29 escape rooms
I can tell my new love is going to be doing spooky escape rooms. I had fun with the room as a whole, but I definitely wouldnβt say that I ever felt truly spooked at any point during the game. This is not a bad thing. I still love a good episode of Scooby Doo as long as I am not counting on Paranormal Activity levels of fright. The story was fun and I enjoyed all the puzzles, with a couple being notably memorable. I also love when there are large changes to a room mid game. This delivers there. Lots of fun, probably my second favorite game at Lock and Key!
Love the flow of the puzzles. Really fit into the story as well
Cool props and vibe, but the room didnβt truly feel βspookyβ. Looking back it may have been the lighting being too bright. Not a huge complaint though
Rachel was AWESOME and so was the person who outroed our game (forgot your name im sorry!!)
No
Easy
Spooky
No
No
Somewhat
25 escape rooms
This game was super fun and the puzzles were unique and our game master Rachel was awesome
Yes
Medium
High tech
4
Spooky
14
No
No
Somewhat
There are some parts of the game where it would be difficult for someone who is not able-bodied to do however not everyone has to do it in the room to complete the puzzles.
No
Southdale Center is just confusing and has no directory but lock and key does everything to help you find them
Easy
64 escape rooms
I enjoyed this room a lot. It did feel pretty easy, but we still had fun playing it. There was some fun twists in the room's progression that were quite memorable, too.
There was a ball toss puzzle to knock over some ducks! Also a really cool one where you have to blindly feel for the answer in order to solve the corresponding puzzle. Pretty linear, but not a bad thing.
Definitely has a creepy vibe to it. I absolutely loved the reveal towards the end behind the tent! Not to mention when everything goes black. The little dummy adds a fun little touch, too.
Very nice staff!
Yes
The tarot cards!!
The 'intro' story was not really relavent to how the experience progressed. There was also some voice overs throughout the game that narrated a completely different story.
Easy
Mechanical
All practical puzzles.
2
We escaped with twenty-five minutes to spare with two of us.
Spooky
Spooky vibes.
12
Yes
One puzzle didn't trigger when we solved it, but got confirmation that we were correct.
Yes
A puppeteer!
Somewhat
Normal amount of moving around.
One puzzle involves crawling.
Yes
In a mall.
Easy
On site mall parking.
R
2 escape rooms
Good variety of puzzles. The atmosphere caused one person to make me do one scary part - that was fun and immersive! The theme was good and the final bits were tricky. I canβt say more due to spoilers. One thing didnβt quit physically work as designed. But other items worked better than expected. Sizes and spaces were used well too!
48 escape rooms
Was an epic room! The story was so silly and fun! The jumpscares were spooky and timed pretty well. I like how the puzzles / room is all very cohesive. We don't care as much about being immersed in the atmosphere so we didn't mind there was a few broken things. But our game guide was awesome and it never was awkward. We've done quite a few escape rooms at this point and managed to escape with 11 minutes!
Yes
Easy
Mechanical
2
Spooky
13
Yes
In a way yes? There are moment where someone's hand would reach through a hole / would make pounding noises
Not at all
It was very easy to move around. However! there were parts where someone needed to crawl / a tent like part that would be difficult to get a wheelchair on. For hearing much of the story is told audibly, I would assume they could give captions but many of the conformations you did a puzzle are audio. It is somewhat dark in this room and you are not supposed to use flashlights, but maybe they could make exeptions for people with vision issues. there was 3 color based puzzles with the 4 colors red, yellow, green, and blue
No
Its on the bottom floor of the mall and we struggled a bit to find it haha
Easy
C
40 escape rooms
Two adults. We had fun in this room. Host was friendly. Puzzles were fun
49 escape rooms
Such a fun place to play a room at. They put a lot of work into their rooms and they are soooo welcoming. We had a major game malfunction in our room but they played it off and made sure we still had a great time
Yes
