Nautilus

Nautilus is good for those who are just starting to experience escape rooms. A couple of the set pieces were finicky and our flashlights died while escaping. The puzzles were fun. Overall a fun room.

A very borderline “thumbs down” room. An unenthusiastic GM, some puzzles that that didn’t work properly (finicky and worn) and incredibly linear puzzles (if you can even call them “puzzles”) made this room below average. Very dark room and one of our flashlights wasn’t charged and died halfway through. Just a few improvements could’ve made this room a “thumbs up” but for us it missed the mark.

The very last clue was misleading. Because of the phrasing, we were convinced that the solution couldn't possibly the solution. But otherwise lots of fun!

I thought it was fun and the game master was friendly. One of my friends thought it was too easy, but I think it was well balanced.

PSA for 60 Out- either fix everything in this room, or shut it down! The game master clearly hated his job, and half of the puzzles didn’t work. They had to shut everything in the room off twice, and the room ended up being too broken for us to continue. Speakers that hold clues weren’t working clearly, the power to important panels went out and couldn’t be turned back on, and even when we did puzzles correctly they didn’t work. Even if you’re a 60 Out completist, skip this game. The tech broke before the game could be finished, and the game master pretty much gave up. They offered us a free game but we were too frustrated to take it.

This was my first 60Out room and it was fun! We played with the maximum amount of players, definitely a smaller space so 2-4 players could be a good group size!

Some 60 Out rooms are great but this one was not worth the $45 a person (with a discount!) that we paid. The room felt old and tired. As mentioned in another review all the pretty undersea atmospheric theming that you see in the promotional photo isn’t working in the game so you just have black windows with the screens turned off. Several of the puzzles had wonky tech, where we solved things but they didn’t trigger right away, confusing us if we had actually done the correct thing. Makes me wonder if it was on a manual trigger and if our GM, who was manning another escape room at the same time as ours, just wasn’t paying attention? (At one point they accidentally gave us a clue for a different room, which led to further confusion.) One of the puzzles involved a digital number screen that was impossible to read, which was very frustrating. We also thought several of the puzzles didn’t really make logical sense as to what you were supposed to do with them. This room also relies heavily on both darkness and a fair amount of reading as an element, which I am not a fan of. Unless you’re a 60 Out completist I’d skip this one.

We chose this puzzle due to the theme. The set design was fun and imaginative. The room started off rather slow, but ended up finishing with quite a bang. Overall we came away enjoying this room quite a bit, the puzzles were straightforward.