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This is the most technically impressive game I have played at TEG. The only thing keeping it from being my favorite of their rooms is a bit of clunkiness in the puzzle design and cluing, but with a few tweaks it would easily take the top spot, and I would recommend it highly regardless. You’re sent to a space station to deal with a crisis involving a black hole. I really don’t want to say more as the plot is not what I expected (in a good way). While I wouldn’t go with more than 4, I do think this is the rare TEG game that would play better with a team of 3-4 than a team of 2, as several puzzles require coordination among multiple humans. The difficulty overall is higher than the median TEG room as well, but it’s still not that hard and the hint system is adorable (it isn’t the usual “mash a big red button on the wall” system and I’ll just leave it at that). The use of tech throughout from start to finish is excellent, as is the set design. There were several puzzles that I thought “this seems like they want X, but X would be really tough to pull off from a tech standpoint” … and it was X, and they pulled it off. One puzzle that should be awesome is less than awesome because of fiddly registration of items being placed correctly, but it is still cool and that is eminently fixable. I believe only a few TEG locations have this game as of this writing in mid-February 2024 (maybe just Atlanta and one other) so if you are a fan of TEG this is a rare opportunity to play something new before most of the other cities get it. Highly recommended.
Yes
Medium
High tech
4
Not scary
13
No
No
Not at all
Yes
Medium
Feb 22, 2024 | Experienced Feb 20, 2024