Temple of the Skull

MAJOR DISSATISFACTION!!! Cool idea of the room but they had bad puzzles that were outdated and worn so when complete you would have zero idea and are left wondering what to do, restarting puzzles and wasting time just for them to say oh you opened it you have to pull it, tug it, move it to get it to shimmy open. The game masters were incredibly unprofessional coming over our room on the intercom to give clues for other people in other escape rooms, staying over the intercom to give nudges we didn’t ask for or didn’t need as we were working on the puzzle, and staying over the intercom the whole hour to say oh you don’t need that, oh don’t touch that, that’s not a puzzle, or the puzzle is …” this made the experience feel like their time to play and not ours. I also received terrible customer service over the phone prior to booking. They believe their business is too good to take cash payments, I personally think they could benefit from any payment that will come their way to then use to improve their rooms and hire better game masters! Huge disappointment for my boyfriend’s birthday!

This was a super frustrating room. It was too dark and while we were provided with one flashlight, it barely worked. It would have been much more fun with better lighting. Most of the puzzles were too ambiguous and not at all intuitive as to how to solve them.

The only good thing about this room was our GM when she was able to help us. If the puzzles/clues get fixed then this could because a really great room.

This was a challenging room! We had a great time and loved our gm Marty!

Mehhhh

It was ok. The Game Over in Tampa really is on point. This room was pretty much everyone goes to each puzzle to figure out. It was not great but I gave it a good rating based on the game master and the ambiance. The story was ok. Room set up was good. Good for a staging room. When you’ve done over 100 it’s not too impressive. The game masters do encourage a positive review and stated they get $5. Locks were in good condition. The difficulty was at most a 2. So my review is very mixed, still a thumbs up.

My group and I are a big fan of Game Over and we had a fantastic time playing Temple of the Skull! It was my partner’s second time completing the room and my first, I’m usually wary of ‘temple’ themed rooms as they can become kitschy and a bit repetitive. But I think Game Over did a fantastic job of making theirs unique, I also always enjoy how their rooms have a perfect balance of manual locks and more high-tech elements. Huge props to our game master, she was a riot!

Since we finished another room here in 36 minutes, we decided to do another: this one. Again the set was really nice but I just didn’t have fun. It was extremely linear, not a room you can “divide and conquer”. We needed a ton of clues to walk us through it because we kept missing the point of each puzzle. We would do what we were supposed to do but then weren’t understanding what the solution was pointing to, if that makes sense. Had great potential with the set design but overall didn’t like it.