Red Giant

A little bit of rough leaps in logic. Good production value! Mia was great! Good story, but a little loose narratively.

This is an escape room on the easier side; with two (experienced) players we spent only 43 minutes, and we're not usually that fast. Yes, it's another Egypt / tomb raider room. The theme isn't very inventive, but it is probably the best room I've done with the theme. (That's not saying a whole lot...most Egypt rooms are quite bland.) A couple very cool moments. Mostly, the puzzles were done well. There was one puzzle where we knew what to do, we just really struggled with making it work, which is always a frustrating moment. It's dark as hell and we only got one headlamp. This worked just fine for the two of us but was occasionally frustrating. GM was good, but we didn't get our photos sent to us at the end, which was a bummer.

This was a really disappointing escape room experience. Our group of four was only given two working headlamps because they didn’t have enough functioning ones. The room itself is extremely dark, and you need light to read instructions and complete puzzles, so this made the experience frustrating right from the start. The room also feels old and poorly maintained, and some of the puzzle mechanisms took a long time to unlock or respond, which slowed everything down unnecessarily. On top of that, many of the puzzles were not intuitive and required big logical leaps rather than satisfying problem-solving. Instead of feeling clever when you solved something, it mostly felt confusing. Overall, this room felt outdated and poorly prepared for guests. I wouldn’t recommend it.

So immediately after playing The Perfumer we followed it up with Red Giant. The only negative I drew from Red Giant is it felt like a room I played elsewhere, purely from a layout and theming perspective. I’m unsure which one was built first but either way this one was better. The puzzles were more elaborate and the props felt more connected to the environment. The beginning and end were smaller rooms but they extended the world/plot we were living in and their addition made the story a little more believable and fun. It’s not JUST another pyramid/Egyptian-inspired room and stands out from others.

Red giant was a lot of fun Bernard was very helpful.

This was a very nice room! It's a darker room where you're given light sources to use (love-hate relationship). The theming was REALLY NICE. Puzzles were challenging and different. The only downside was that there was at least one puzzle that was a bit finnicky/buggy. We got the idea of what we had to do but the puzzle wasn't registering our solution correctly. Other negative was that it was kind of hard to hear the GM on the staticky speakers. We often had to ask him to repeat what he said, burning through more of our time. One puzzle was particularly difficult, but we brute forced the solution once we had a couple parts solved. The ending shocked me because you had to literally break a golden rule of escape rooms to end it. Without the buggy puzzle and subpar speaker system, this room would be pretty top tier.

Great theming. Harrison was a lovely host. But very unchallenging and inspite of the decor, not very engaging, sadly. For the price, especially, we wished we’d skipped this one.

Good room. It definitely relies a lot on the scenic design. I will say one of the puzzles was really frustrating and I think it might be near impossible without a hint. Additionally the room wasn't super straightforward. The special effects in this room were great. There are better rooms in the area that are more affordable.

Hurts me to say because we LOVED Perfumer so much, this room didn’t do it for us. The immersion was great, I loved the set and it felt very adventurous, but the puzzles themselves were frustrating, not in a challenging way, but we ran into a lot of tech issues/having to repeat things we did because it didn’t work/lack of clarity to what you needed to do. There is a specific puzzle in it that felt like it was meant to drive your time up. I will say that the beginning and ending have some really cool stuff, it mostly could have used more fun in the middle. If you’re deciding here between this room and Perfumer, I’d highly recommend Perfumer!

Had a blast, and Jasmin was a perfect GM! I’d recommend this room to anyone, but especially beginner friendly groups!