The Observatory

Wowwww!!! I’ve done over 100 escape rooms and this was one of the most impressive ones I’ve seen. I thought the puzzles were so unique, creative, and engaging. Everything flowed together so well. There was a mix of both really simple and really complex puzzles, but overall, I would consider this a very challenging room. While I found the very first puzzle a bit strange, I wouldn’t change anything about this room. There was one particular aspect that was shocking and I had never seen it before. Everything about this room was so creative and impressive. My mind was definitely blown. Also, I did this room alone which made it very challenging, so I would recommend going with 2-6 people. Also, Lucas was a fantastic game master and made my experience so enjoyable.

This room was so much fun, a throw back to good old fashioned mechanical puzzles with a good twist. Would highly recommend checking it out!

Did this one with my kids (15,12,10) and it was a close call but we made it! Really clever design of both the puzzles and the physical components

This game is a piece of escape room history and an absolute must play if you’re in New England if you love puzzle dense games. It has a “wow” moment that took me back to one of my favorite top ranked TERPECA games in Europe (and this game certainly came first). More than that, it has an individual puzzle so crunchy, layered and methodical that I’ll remember it for a long time to come, maybe the most dense single puzzle I’ve seen in any game. We brought my wife’s family and they had a blast, everyone contributed and had an incredible time. Lucas was our game host and ran an incredible room, giving very gentle hints at the exact right time, understood when to let us suffer through our thought processes and provided an excellent experience for our group of six players of wildly varying skill levels. Come play this game if you love old school escape rooms with a focus on puzzling, charming, home spun sets and ingenious design that keeps giving. I think this game is a snapshot of where escape rooms began and how even a classic game can bring happiness and genuine surprise to the most jaded enthusiast or a dad who’s play three games before.

A must do room.

Rating: 4/5 - Challenging room, good for puzzle lovers Pros: ➕Good looking set with one particularly impressive aspect ➕Unique and satisfying puzzles, the game is very puzzle heavy and lighter on story ➕Puzzles were challenging and layered with some non-linearity, nothing illogical or unfair ➕There are some fun surprises ➕More than 1 room to explore ➕The owner/GM was friendly and helpful Things that could be better: ➖There is one intentional red herring puzzle and the materials used for some of the other designs were unintentional red herrings. ➖The game is fully padlock and keypad lock based. While I don't inherently dislike locks, I do prefer if some tech mixed in so that not every puzzle results in a set of numbers or letters. Due to the challenging nature of this game, I do not recommend it for beginners. We played as a team of 2 and needed a lot of hints/nudges, I would recommend a team of 4-5 enthusiasts.

This was a challenging room with a completely unexpected and jaw-dropping twist!

Incredibly awesome room, I can see why it's won so many awards. The puzzles are tactile, and challenging, it has parallelism without feeling disjointed, it's honestly a bit of a masterclass

Super fun, cool and unique puzzles! A must for any escape room fan.

There was one super cool surprise! Otherwise nice clever puzzles and lots of parallelism, although to an extent this made me confused about what we were working on and what was completed.