Wild West Showdown

Omescape has rebranded as Omventure and launched a new escape room with a Wild West theme called Wild West Showdown, which just opened a week ago. The new theme continues the style of "Hong Kong after Dark," set up as a competitive game where players are divided into two teams based on assigned roles. Everyone competes for loot to see who scores the highest. Initially, everyone solves puzzles together, but towards the end, the teams enter separate rooms to see who can solve the most puzzles in the same amount of time. The setting is impressive, with a two-story saloon that really sets the mood. The puzzles are creative, linear, and varied, fitting well with the theme of the Wild West gold rush. Most puzzles are logic-based, and for anyone who isn’t a native English speaker, some English reading ability is required to quickly understand the rules; a bit of vocabulary is also needed, for example, knowing that "Feline" means cat. However, our game experience was not very smooth. First, the feedback system could be better; other than successful sound effects, there is no other feedback. Whether players make a mistake or act too soon, no feedback is provided, which can make players easily feel lost. Second, due to it being newly opened, the game master was quite inexperienced, with two instances of skipping puzzles and being hesitant when asked for hints, and errors like entering the next room too early due to unclosed doors. Although these issues can be understandable in a new escape room, as a customer who paid $63+tax, the experience was not very enjoyable. Overall, it has great ideas and some amazing designs in this room. It could be better. I also got some negative feedback from other friends a few months after I played. However, I believe that if they could better train game masters, it would be the next "Hong Kong after Dark." which is absolutely my favorite in GTA.

Wild West Showdown was an interesting experience 🤠🌵🐴 I played in a group of 8, which I would not recommend doing since the game is mostly linear and there are some small spaces. 2 people could probably complete this room, with the caveat being that there will come a point where they would have to split up. The room has a live actor, but I wasn’t completely sold on the performance. The costume (or lack thereof) was not convincing. He was extremely nice though and tried to inject moments of comedy into the experience. This game is interesting in that you are working against each other, but also with each other. I would be curious to know how the player vs. player nature of the game is received by other groups. My group kind of had it in the back of our mind, and didn’t really keep track of the scoring system. The GM had to bring our attention back to it in the last 3rd of the game. The last part of the game is where the room truly shined, in my opinion, as it had the most engaging puzzles to do. The set was really nice throughout all spaces.

This room was fun!!! The live actor made the room very interesting. We had difficulty with one of the props for a puzzle and it took a while for the problem to get resolved. No matter. The room was super cool and I especially loved the games during the second half of the escape room.

Average escape room. One puzzle to start the second phase did not make sense. 2 hr room but actually puzzle solving is limited