Ink & Ashes

Ink & Ashes

Overwhelmingly positive (714 ratings)

  • Escape room
  • IRL

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In this spine-tingling mystery, you are transported back to October 1984, where renowned author Jane Oliver is found dead in her own home under suspicious circumstances. Despite exhaustive efforts by detectives, it remains unsolved and has become a cold case.

  • 4-8
  • 60 mins
  • Hard
  • Not scary

Awards

Ratings

All (714)

Overwhelmingly positive

Gameplay
Overwhelmingly positive
Atmosphere
Overwhelmingly positive
Customer service
Overwhelmingly positive

Reviews

P

Pogosticker

46 escape rooms

Amazing room, super cool story elements, fun puzzles. Highly recommend!

Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Difficulty

Hard

Mar 28, 2026
@Tyler
Tyler

294 escape rooms

Ink & Ashes is a fantastic escape room that introduces a very novel structure of solving puzzles to solve a murder mystery, almost like a game of Clue. The puzzles are challenging, and our experienced group finished with just a minute and a half left. Our game master Emmanuel was fantastic and respected our wish to not be hinted unless we asked for it. I really respected how courteous the staff at this location were and the high quality of the game they’ve built. I’d highly recommend it! This game is non-linear so make sure you divide and conquer in order to finish everything in front of you. Having good attention to detail is very important when playing this game.

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Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Particularly interesting or different

Yes

Story
Difficulty

Hard

Game tech

High tech

Ideal number of players

5

Scary

Not scary

Minimum age

13

Was anything broken?

No

Live actors

No

Physically active

Not at all

Accessibility

One colour-based puzzle but colourblind players can still participate in that puzzle as it has multiple layers to it.

Easy to find location

Yes

Signage could be better. Turn left immediately after entering the plaza, otherwise you’ll have to go all the way around.

Parking

Easy

Safety

Yes

Mar 22, 2026 | Experienced Mar 21, 2026

T

Tclingerlb

12 escape rooms

Incredibly fun room solving a murder mystery. Loved the story details throughout solving all the puzzles. I'd say lean closer to 4 people as there's lota of puzzles and some that may be harder to do with 2-3 people. Room was perfect for bouncing between splitting up and coming together for puzzles.

Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Particularly interesting or different

Yes

Story
Difficulty

Medium

Game tech

Mechanical

Ideal number of players

4

Scary

Spooky

The lights occasionally turn off during the story but otherwise its not scary at all

Minimum age

10

Was anything broken?

No

Live actors

No

Physically active

Somewhat

Just may need to move quickly for one of the puzzles

Accessibility

May need to crouch down to reach certain puzzle elements

Easy to find location

Yes

Parking

Easy

Safety

Yes

Mar 1, 2026

S

Stryyk

29 escape rooms

Emmanuel was an amazing game master. This game was so much fun.

Jan 3, 2026

b

brielu

15 escape rooms

High production value, interesting puzzles. Small amount of backtracking that was nice.

Dec 31, 2025

t

t0fusquared

27 escape rooms

Great theming and special effects. David was a good sport and set us off on a good foot by gauging how much assistance we wanted as enthusiasts.

Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Game tech

Mechanical

Nov 17, 2025

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