The Time Machine

We were told going in that this room was different. So maybe cause it was different by a few standards, but we did not really like it.

Went into this one hoping for a cool time travel theme. Walked out feeling like the room itself was kinda empty. Not terrible, not great. Just okay. We did escape, so that's something, but it didn't feel as satisfying as it should have. Puzzles were supposedly medium to hard. I'll take their word for it because for some reason I just couldn't grasp them. Not sure if it was me or the room. Probably a bit of both. Some things just didn't make sense to me. Like we'd try something and think we were on the right track and then nothing. Or we'd figure out part of a puzzle but the next step felt like a leap. We did manage to escape, so obviously we figured enough out. But it never really clicked the way it should. I spent more time confused than I did feeling like I was solving anything. Not a great feeling in an escape room. Maybe it was just one of those days where my brain wasn't clicking. But I also think some of the puzzle logic was a little off. Hard to tell. It's an okay room for 45 minutes. Nothing more, nothing less. We escaped, which is always nice, but I didn't walk out excited about it. If you're in the area and have 45 minutes to kill, sure, check it out. But don't go out of your way. I just wish there was more to this room. More atmosphere, more puzzles, more depth. Felt like a decent concept that needed another round of development.

Fun escape room and fastest escape room done without hints. Not many puzzles to solve which makes sense for 45 minutes Micah was a good game host

It was fun! Not that hard like it says.

The room had some cool sets but was fairly bare as a whole. The puzzles were ok but PanIQ Escape Rooms kind of relies on doing the same thing multiple times to complete one puzzle which makes them feel like time padding. The puzzles are almost all just one or two small tweaks away from being inventive and really fun but they stumble over a few design decisions.

This was our first half hour escape room. Obviously it is fairly short. We got out in about 15 minutes so we felt it could have used a few more puzzles, but what was there were good puzzles with decent theming other than the ending, which basically amounted to our host walking in and telling us we had completed the room rather than an end sequence. Good overall as a complement to the other rooms but I wouldn't go out of my way to just do Time Machine