A Pirate's Curse

They have some pretty good rooms… just need to change them out more often and maybe stay up to date with broken stuff cause there’s been times I’ve gone and stuff doesn’t open

One puzzle was color-based and it was impossible at times to differentiate. Another puzzle was already solved before we got to it and we took the components off their spots and replaced them and they still weren’t activating the mechanism they had to activate. We wasted a lot of time on this. Also, unfortunately, the GM wasn’t exactly attentive to us and our progress in the game. Just an example, after spending lots of time on the puzzle that wasn’t working we asked for some help and were told to just take off the components and put them back on until it worked (we had been doing that for 5+ minutes). There were a few other annoying things about the room & some others that weren’t too bad, but honestly, this was probably our worst experience at Escapology 😐

This room was fun and the staff was amazing as always! Overall the room was decorated well and the puzzles were great.

Ok so as we know, Escapology is a solid mainstream escape room chain. They are reliable, you can count on the puzzles to work, and the rooms are always linear. Which honestly - love that. They make escape rooms feel very accessible to your average person, aka us. This is the newest theme that has opened at this Garwood location, and honestly it was a solid room. I wouldn't say it was my favorite, or the best one, but if you're into pirates then this is a good choice. We did this as a group of 4, and had a fun time. I love a good crawl-through. Why was the intro video so long though.... we got the pirate's entire life story me thinks. Anyways, solid room and honestly would be fun for kids.

Solid room! Not anything super special and exciting but Escapology is a classic for me. It's like the palette cleanser of escape rooms. You know it's going to be old reliable and always come through with a linear medium difficulty room. This room was cool, and I liked the final space you're in the best.

EDITED AT THE END(This has gotta be up there with one of the worst escape rooms I have ever done. The only redeeming quality about this room is the set design. I think it was a combination of the room being unreasonable and the game master not being even slightly attentive. For starters things would open and it was impossible to notice and the game guide watched us dink around for 10 minutes clearly just not noticing what was supposed to open get stuck. Even after getting passed this there was a clue that required colors that were WRONG. A color turned out to be yellow that was CLEARLY GREEN and not even remotely close to what it was intended to be. We were also performing a task the right way and because of this color issue got no where and then asked for a hint 5/6 times with no response only to finally get a hint that told us to keep doing what we were doing. Overall just a frustrating and bad experience and it put a bad taste in my mouth for escapology and I definitely will not be returning to this location.) EDIT: management reached out to us to resolve how bad of a time we had and honestly their customer service was amazing and they explained it was a new game so they were still working out the kinks. They also explained they would be retraining game masters to be more attentive. After such amazing customer service and their quick response to change what wasn’t working in the game I would definitely try out this franchise again.