Nevermore

An escape room in someone’s real-life basement has no business being this mindblowingly amazing! Seriously, we pulled up into someone’s actual house, and experienced an adventure more immersive than countless other professional commercial establishments. It’s totally legit! The room itself is both a love story and a love letter to Edgar Allen Poe and his popular story The Raven. References are peppered throughout, so those familiar with his works will appreciate everything. The puzzles are honestly some of the best tightly-packed, well-clued, brain-stimulating challenges I’ve ever seen so meticulously presented from start to finish. This room, much like Poe’s stories, is a work of art, with high tech marvels and an unexpected guest who literally brings the room to life. The effects, lighting, and cinematic moments set the spooky mood masterfully, and they are entirely up my alley for the blueprints to an excellent escape room. Tom and Nicole are lovely owners, and this escape room in their basement might just be the most idealized perfect room that I could ever have the privilege of playing. This last-second addition to our big Carolinas escape trip has easily risen to my top favorite rooms. And I will not forget this amazing experience, nevermore.

don’t let the location fool you, this is a well thought out amazing escape room. the owners are true escape room enthusiasts who didn’t miss any details on this one.

My husband and I love doing escape rooms and I am soooo glad we gave this a try. The owners put so much care into these rooms. We did both Ripper and Nevermore and both were great. The details, puzzles, and creativity blew me away. I loved the involvement of actors and both rooms were super immersive. I’d recommend giving both a try since they are so different but equally fun. Wish I could give this more than 5 stars.

It was SUCH a good time. It felt truly like such a passion project, the attention to detail was so amazing!!! Would definitely recommend playing!!!

OMG and WOW! My wife and I have done over 100 escape rooms all around the country and Nocturne is now one of the tops we have done. We drove about 3 hours to get there and it was more than worth the trip. Tom and Nicole have figured out the Secret formula to escape room success: great people + great themes/decor + great stories + great puzzles = GREAT TIME! No stress of a clock really allows you to just enjoy the adventure of Nevermore. No super high-tech stuff going on in either room. Just amazing decor, awesome sounds/music and atmosphere plus a few spots of live acting to really add to the mood of Nevermore. Puzzles made sense, were fun and fit the theme of the room. If you get the chance you must visit Nocturne.

This Poe inspired room absolutely hits the mark. From the set design to the puzzles this room maintains the immersion all the way through. The room focuses more on the experience and the vibe of the room rather than having super difficult puzzles but the room itself makes you want to slow down and just exist in the atmosphere.

This is a work of art. No other words needed.

A wonderful immersion experience. The moment you walked in it felt like you were transported to the dark and stormy world of Edgar Alan Poe. The puzzles did a great job of incorporating props so you interacted with everything in the room but filled with details so that with keen observation you could find where they linked to other items in the room. I got so fully involved in the world they created that when we solved the last puzzle I was little sad to go back to the real world. My crew amd I had a great time and are looking forward to going back and trying put the Ripper when our schedule allows!

My husband and I did both rooms at Nocturne Adventures, and they were both top tier! We both were so appreciative of how much love was put into Nevermore. My husband loves Edgar Allan Poe, so this was a dream come true. I don’t know too much about Poe myself, but you don’t have to have the knowledge to enjoy the room! The owners were personable and so kind. Would HIGHLY recommend taking a trip to experience both rooms!!

I played Nevermore in October and am just getting around to leaving a review—on the day TERPECA results came out and Nevermore made the list!! 🙌 Nicole and Tom are so deserving of the honor. Nevermore transported me to Poe’s world, I loved every second of it. The artistry is stunning and the puzzles flowed nicely and made sense in the setting/story. Nicole and Tom’s experience in the haunt world really comes through in the best possible way (impressive since this isn’t a “horror” room). And, they’re amazing hosts to boot. Worth the trip to play. Can’t wait for whatever they come up with next!