Batman™: The Dark Knight Challenge

Mostly negative (57 ratings)

Escapology - Northridge

Escape room
IRL

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Beat the clock and save Gotham City once and for all. Gotham City, a metropolis plagued by crime and injustice, is in dire need of heroes. In response to the escalating threats, Batman has initiated a new Gotham City Guardian training program. You have been carefully selected for the program to attempt a new and intense training exercise that includes stopping a training device Batman planted in the heart of Gotham City filled with a non-harmful chemical compound designed to mimic a legitimate chemical leak without the fatality. The device is fitted with a countdown clock that will release the gas in exactly 60 minutes after your mission start time, so you'll have to work quickly.

2-8
60 mins
Not scary

Ratings

All ratings (57)

Mostly negative

Gameplay: Negative

Atmosphere: Very positive

Customer service: Very positive

Reviews

Ronocnroll

106 escape rooms

This room had a lot to live up to, especially being that the Scooby Doo room felt very one-to-one with its source material. As nice as the setting of the room was, there were very few a-ha moments; things didn’t click like I expect them to in an escape room. It felt like certain puzzles were meant to be tricks and that felt unsatisfying. The first room was baby easy and the difficulty takes a jump but overall if you have a good team you’ll have a good time.

Gameplay

Atmosphere

Customer service

Particularly interesting or different

Story

Difficulty

Medium

Game tech

High tech

Scary

Not scary

Was anything broken?

Live actors

Physically active

Not at all

Easy to find location

Yes

Parking

Medium

Nov 13, 2025 | Experienced Nov 13, 2025

calbear91

37 escape rooms

The theming was good and it flowed well generally. I’d been wanting to try this one. Most of the clues were linear but there was one clue that felt like a stretch to get and we needed a clue. The room looked really good and I think most people would enjoy this one.

Gameplay

Theming looked great! Equipment and props were high quality and high tech.

Atmosphere

Customer service

Staff was great and helpful with the few issues we had.

Particularly interesting or different

Yes

Batman theme is unique to Escapology so that’s really cool.

Story

Difficulty

Medium

Game tech

High tech

Ideal number of players

Scary

Not scary

Minimum age

Was anything broken?

Yes

One of the screens in the front showed a Windows desktop at one point and I had to ask someone to reset it. Also, there was no final congratulatory message from Batman at the end so the GM played it for us after we finished. We thought we lost! So that was a bit disappointing to realize we won but there was no fanfare.

Live actors

Physically active

Not at all

Accessibility

Hard for someone with mobility issues. Lots of reaching down needed.

Easy to find location

Yes

Parking

Easy

Aug 10, 2025 | Experienced Aug 3, 2025

Anithralia

81 escape rooms

It was good, but one puzzle’s execution needs to be more obvious. When the puzzle itself is complete and we don’t know what to do with the answer to the puzzle, that’s a problem. The overall story was good and all the rest of the puzzles were good. It was linear, and there were some unique things in there.

Gameplay

Atmosphere

Customer service

Story

Game tech

High tech

May 2, 2025 | Experienced May 2, 2025

KrystalKurio

55 escape rooms

It was just okay. Got less and less impressive as we went along, ESPECIALLY at the end.

Gameplay

Atmosphere

Customer service

Scary

Not scary

Oct 3, 2024

adamkipnis

520 escape rooms

I wish Morty had a rating in between thumbs up and thumbs down. There were parts of this game that I enjoyed, but overall was pretty disappointed. The set design was cool, but the space was VERY small. Don't go with more than 4 people...you'll be cramped the entire time.

Gameplay

Atmosphere

Customer service

Particularly interesting or different

Yes

Story

Difficulty

Easy

Game tech

High tech

Ideal number of players

Scary

Not scary

Minimum age

Was anything broken?

Live actors

Physically active

Not at all

Easy to find location

Yes

Parking

Easy

Feb 24, 2024 | Experienced Feb 24, 2024

ipyroball

81 escape rooms

I was disappointed.

Gameplay

The theme made sense but how we solve the puzzles didn’t really connect.

Customer service

The host was accommodating, and the GM exuded enthusiasm. However, our victory felt anticlimactic when another staff member unexpectedly entered the room after we solved the final puzzle. His unannounced appearance left us bewildered, diminishing the sense of accomplishment from our escape.

Particularly interesting or different

Yes

There was one puzzle that I thought was cool, but other than that, everything was meh

Story

There was a story but it was irrelevant to the puzzle solving.

Difficulty

Medium

The correlation to the puzzles didn’t make a lot of sense.

Ideal number of players

Scary

Not scary

Was anything broken?

Yes

Some of the puzzles wasn’t perfectly aligned

Live actors

Physically active

Not at all

Easy to find location

Yes

Parking

Easy

It’s near the northridge mall

Nov 1, 2023 | Experienced Oct 23, 2023

yay842

99 escape rooms

the rooms were thematic, props were pretty onpoint with Batman theme. The story fell apart towards the end. We breezed through puzzles, and only 1 puzzle was unintuitive. didn't require a lot of thinking. linear, and ending didn't feel satisfactory.

Gameplay

Atmosphere

Customer service

Particularly interesting or different

Story

Difficulty

Easy

Game tech

High tech

Ideal number of players

Scary

Not scary

Minimum age

Was anything broken?

Live actors

Physically active

Not at all

Easy to find location

Yes

at the Northridge mall

Parking

Easy

mall parking

Oct 27, 2023 | Experienced Oct 23, 2023

shanexplains

149 escape rooms

This is a small Batman experience, but it’s got some fun technology. Some pieces didn’t operate as they should and information we needed to know and were not told which would have saved us at least 15-20 minutes.

Gameplay

Atmosphere

Customer service

Particularly interesting or different

Story

Difficulty

Medium

Difficulty

Medium

Game tech

High tech

Game tech

High tech

Ideal number of players

Scary

Not scary

Scary

Not scary

Minimum age

Was anything broken?

Yes

Piece didn’t open initially, they weren’t even away.

Was anything broken?

Yes

Piece didn’t open initially, they weren’t even away.

Live actors

Physically active

Not at all

Physically active

Not at all

Accessibility

Small spaces, but all one level

Accessibility

Small spaces, but all one level

Easy to find location

It’s next to Dave and Buster

Easy to find location

It’s next to Dave and Buster

Parking

Medium

Parking

Medium

Oct 25, 2023 | Experienced Oct 24, 2023

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