Orient Express: The Murder

We liked this game a lot! Finally a hit after a few misses here

This room had unique and challenging puzzles that we rarely see in other escape rooms. The experience was well paced and flowed together nicely. One of our favorite rooms, and definitely one that you’ll rember.

It was decent, the hint system did not help and left some puzzles more confusing. It didn’t feel like a story, it felt more like you’re doing puzzle after puzzle, not becoming properly immersed in the story.

Good technology and neat storyline, but wow….electronic clues were useless as they gave us clues for things we already did. Game master was very delayed in responding on clues. Disappointed they wouldn’t even provide the outcome even though we didn’t escape. Overall, we won’t be back. Was excited to have a new game place to try!

I don’t recommend this establishment. Really wanted to like this, but there are a lot of kinks that need to be worked out. We gave this place a chance despite the lower Morty scores and we now know why it has low scores. The room itself is gorgeous, the story was the typical Agatha C. murder story, but man…the clue delivery system is a huge time waster (and all of the clues we did receive were for puzzles we had already SOLVED, so we needed to ask the game master for more help, but then the game master just didn’t give us clues for a long time). (It seems like there was one game master for multiple rooms.) Some of the puzzles also don’t connect like they should. There just isn’t that accurate association you need for these puzzles. We were one puzzle away from escaping and could have if the clue system was better…ugh. The current record escape for this 60 minute room is 55 minutes and hardly anyone escapes (according to the employees). To me, this is an indication of some bad puzzles, not a hard room. Be cautious. We won’t return, which is a shame as we were happy there were so many new rooms here for us to try.