Skin Deep

Icky. Big miss with this one. Great concept, but just ends up being yucky and mean spirited. Other reviews have shared this sentiment it seems. You could tell employees working our room that day really put their heart into it. But my group and I didn’t have the heart to tell the GM we hated it so I guess this is my telltale heart moment here. I hope the creators are reading these because you gotta really overhaul this room’s story, fast. It’s so ghastly and just uncalled for how it progresses. I’m pretty sure there were real images of autopsies too 🤮 Some other reviews mentioned dehumanizing and misogynistic aspects and thinking about it in retrospect, I’d have to agree. It just feels like someone’s got hangups about women and stuff (I’m a guy picking up on this even).

WOOOOWWWWWWW BIG YIKES. Theres….alot to unpack here. This is something I’d expect an edgy teenager, sex offender or a serial killer to come up with. maybe it was a combination of all three? Like, it wasn’t really fun, except for like the first room maybe? Not even sure about that anymore in retrospect. It wasn’t funny. We were told it would be. It was immersion breaking disturbing. they try to play it off like it’s goofy over the top but it doesn’t work. the idea and themes behind a lot of the later puzzles is just kind of awe inspiringly lurid and concerning. This is especially true for one puzzle in particular my group really didn’t feel comfortable doing, especially because it was on camera, gave it like I dunno this weird humiliating voyeuristic aspect? Totally uncalled for, WEIRDLY sexual and graphic in a way that was just kind of shocking, unnecessary and not funny. The whole thing just left us feeling icky, gross and needing our brains sanitized 😵‍💫

Never thought I’d call any escape room reprehensible, but here we are. Thematically, this thing is just really despicable, I don’t know how else to describe it. Yeah sure, it’s a nice build, whatever. An escape room is supposed to be viewed and rated as the sum of its parts (and BOY does thing have “parts”). Don’t even wanna get into the gross details. Constant objectification and dehumanization as “punchlines”. Just such an unpleasant experience all around. It seriously gives one pause to consider if the people that made this are psychos or axe murderers with mommy issues

ugh…what a mess. i cant ever be bothered to write reviews, but i felt compelled to with this one. what starts as something pretty cool, a bit exciting and different quickly descends into one of, if not THE most tasteless, schizophrenically tone deaf, (weirdly?) offensive scenarios for an escape rooms we’ve ever played. also felt like there were strangely dehumanizing misogynistic overtones, also played for laughs, especially toward the end. i think had it been played more “straight” from what the description entailed instead of morphing into this weird rugpull near the beginning it would have worked better (maybe). we really were kind of in disbelief at what was being played off for humor. like, you got to be demented or some kind of murderer-to-be to think any of this was funny. No lightweights or negative nancies here in our group either, it just was in really poor taste all around. shame because the build out and set design is quite impressive. puzzles range from a few inspired ones to “what the $&%@ is wrong with these people”. kind of hard to believe this was made by the same people who made Aunt Suzie’s Condo and Bruno’s Bistro, two infinitely better rooms. Website says “sense of humor required” for Skin Deep. i think y’all who made this should develop a sense of taste and go get therapy while you’re at it 👎

We had the opportunity to beta test this one. It was A M A Z I N G!!! Hands down one of my favorite rooms they’ve done. They are constantly pushing the envelope and coming up with new ways to immerse their customers in their rooms. Come prepared to have fun and get some great laughs in. This is a good one y’all! 💉❤️