A Pirate's Curse

Honestly, this is the best game at Kissimmee’s Escalology location. Good flow on the game play, great theming. Logical steps for each segment. This game is as good as some of the independent companies around Orlando. Pick this one.

We thought the decor was really cool, definitely one of the better pirate themed rooms for sure but so far Lockbusters takes the crown in our escape room journey for this type of theme. Solid puzzles, great mix of locks and tech, just overall a very solid room anybody can enjoy!

Definitely one of the better pirate rooms I have ever done! For this room in particular, I think the less people the better because it is more of a challenge. My best friend has a big fear of eye patches (I know very random) and she was totally fine in this room! It is not a scary pirate room, more of a fun take on finding treasure!

It was ok but a couple of the puzzles didn’t work properly. The staff were not welcoming at all and in fact were bordering on rude. We will not be returning to this location. Probably would not recommend this room - try the pirate themed room at doldricks instead!

The game started out pretty nicely. Set design was standard and on par with Escapology. Puzzles seemed to flow nicely at first. Halfway through, the flow got very janky. Some puzzles that we solved didn’t properly open drawers which led us to search around the room and waste time looking for something that we should have been able to see as soon as the puzzle was solved. Like everyone else with the map/footprint puzzle, those 2 things did not correlate at all and felt very clunky. We were also bypassed the easy/hard puzzle after “taking too long” on it even though we were in the process of solving that puzzle.

I will caveat my review with this: The location is still new, and they’re clearly still working out some kinks. We were super disappointed that several effects/puzzles in the room were broken. There were also puzzles that we never got to use. We were told this was because there is a hard version and an easy version, though we were never asked which version we wanted to play. We were automatically given the easy version because the location is still so new that they aren’t offering the hard version, but they left all of the hard puzzles in the room, leading to dead ends/puzzles without solutions. Additionally, instead of offering us clues or hints, the game master just gave us the solve for each puzzle … it’s not as fun when you don’t get to solve it yourself!