Tomb Of Anubis

Rating: 4.5/5 - The most impressive tomb/temple game I've played so far Pros: ➕ Love the immersion, from the sand on the floor to the decorated high ceilings. Everything in the room looked appropriate to the time period and every inch was finished, texturized, and weathered. ➕ Large scale set with fun progression from room to room, lots to discover and explore. ➕ Tons of magical feeling tech, no padlocks since they wouldn't fit the theme. ➕ Enjoyable puzzles using multiple senses with some tactile and physical interactions. The puzzles fit the theme. ➕Fun hidden surprises and reveals. ➕Each player got their own flashlight, they were high tech and had some interesting functions. Though sometimes they were a bit finicky. ➕ Satisfying ending ➕ Audio and lighting effects added to the immersion. ➕ GM was friendly and helpful. Room for improvement: ➖If I remember correctly, they didn't use an in-character hint system like some of their other rooms. The GM just talked to us over the speaker. ➖Storyline was nothing special and kinda forgettable. ➖Not a fan of having a runbook/journal since there is so much reading and I'd rather enjoy the set, but at least they gave us 2 of them so that more than 1 person could read it at a time. We played as a team of 5 enthusiasts and finished with time to spare. This is supposed to be their hardest room, make sure you are not afraid to ask for hints, also tell the game master to nudge you when you get behind. I would not recommend this for beginners. My ranking of all 8 rooms here: 1. Cutthroat Cavern ❤️ 2. Tomb of Anubis ❤️ 3. Spellbound ❤️ 4. Disappearance of Flight 13 ❤️ 5. The Asylum ❤️ 6. The Collector 👍 7. Agent 13 👍 8. Death Row👍

By far, this room had some of the most fun puzzles to complete. The set design was impressive, especially considering it’s an older room. Overall, this was my favorite room at this location.

Excellent set design, overly ridiculously hard though as advertised. Definitely don't do this room last like we did as our 8th game of the day. Brains thoroughly melted...

Very fun. Very hard.

One of the most technologically advanced rooms I’ve ever done. We may not have escaped, but it was incredible.

The most technical and spatially impressive room I have ever experienced. Not a huge fan of the guide book style, but your mileage may vary. Your group will need to be on their game and working hard from the jump to escape in 60 minutes

This game is very challenging. Some of it felt hard for the sake of being hard, but the atmosphere, immersion, and design was absolutely incredible. This should be a 75 minute room because I’d love to be able to to spend more time in this room!

Tomb of Anubis was the 3rd game we did in our marathon day at 13th Gate. Whoa. This company is known for their amazing set design and while Collector was big and Spellbound was beautiful, THIS was the payoff. It starts off innocently but then once we entered the main chamber, there was a collective WOW from all of us. You'll see. (Also, be warned. There's real sand. Lots of it. We all dumped it out of our shoes on the way home.) I've done many an Egyptian themed room. Many were beautiful and some even brought in the real sand. Still, none were this epic. Both in size and ambition. One of my buddies is a die-hard Indiana Jones fan and he was living his best life in this game solving puzzles and avoiding "traps", all while quoting lines from the movies! The puzzling was solid with a couple of them rather difficult, so good thing our gamesmaster was following along closely. Bring the crew. All of 13G games require four people and for good reason. Tomb of Anubis had one big issue that ALL of 13th Gate's games have. These are 60 minute rooms that really need to be 75 minute rooms. There's a LOT of puzzling to be done. We were a group of 4 and we ran over and they let us keep going. Come to 13th Gate for pretty much any & all of the games here. Tomb of Anubis is a must experience. This company is worth the 90 minute drive from New Orleans. If you are coming out, plan to spend the whole day there & do all of their games.