The Collector

TLDR: Escape room with too many clues for its linear approach, but good atmosphere. While I did thumbs down it, i still recommend this for any experts looking for a challenge. Just not any casual groups. A group of six of us did this room, all of us with pretty good escape room experience. I had a hard time figuring out if this was a thumbs down or thumbs up as it was by no means a BAD room. Just… not good. Gameplay: the gameplay was pretty frustrating at times. There was one clue where the words were kind of dull and smudged, so you couldn’t even really read the order. There were a LOT of locks, so we wasted so much time in the beginning, figuring out a clue, but then having to try it on 10 different locks. None of the clues were unique or stood out because of that (with one exception). There were also just too many clues for the amount of time you were given. We had solved a bunch of clues, but when the game master came in and showed us what we had missed, we still had about three or four more clues to solve. Now, having a lot of clues is not bad. However, in this room, it was very linear. So for the most part, you couldn’t be working on other clues while someone was trying to figure out another one. So that combined with the amount of clues just made this a challenging room in the fact you had to steamroll through these clues with little time between. (The game master even gave us 5 extra minutes). I will say none of the puzzles themselves were too challenging. They were pretty fair in their difficulty and weren’t super vague for the most part. Atmosphere: I will say the atmosphere was pretty good. They did a good job of making this room resemble a beach house of a person you were stealing from.