Haunted House

This room was on par with Who Stole Mona? Good theming. Creepy factor was great. Had a couple of jump scares. Bring a jacket if you get cold easily, the I-Drive location of Escapology often has very cold rooms.

Was cute. Kinda spooky, kinda meh. Fun experience but not a fave

It was a great room but it really needed another 15-30 minutes to get the full experience. There was lots of small spaces so it was very hard to see clues or puzzles while others were working on it. Some audio was low and hard to hear. While the puzzles themselves weren’t overly difficult, more time was needed to orient yourselves, learn how to do the puzzles, and complete the puzzle itself. It was very linear and that detracted from a faster completion time!

The rooms were very well built. I liked the aesthetic and the idea, I just don’t understand why every horror themed room has to use a oui*a board. It makes people uncomfortable. Be original and think outside the box

Not a terrible room! Obviously it’s an Escapology room, but nothing was frustrating and everything worked well. On the easier side for sure.

Well we didn’t escape this room. Due to one puzzle that was not working properly. We had the right answer to trigger the next step. But for some reason the end was not triggering until we changed one of the right answer to a wrong one that made no sense to the puzzle then the end finally triggered and we were able to move on. That puzzle took us almost 20 minutes to solve wrongly and the game master was not be helpful at all on that puzzle.

This room was in beta testing when we experienced it so I don’t want to judge it too harshly. First, I’ll say that the theming was great. I absolutely love spooky rooms and this one was beautiful and the theming was on point. That being said, it was incredibly dark which made some clues a bit hard to find. My biggest critique though was the puzzle flow was very convoluted. We managed to escape but that was with quite a bit of hints, which we try not to take normally. It felt like there was no other choice at times as we wasted a lot of time trying to figure out what to do next. Overall, we still enjoyed ourselves, and if the kinks are worked out this could be a great room in the future.

This is not the first time I have let my desire to play a new room at Escapology get the better of my common sense to wait until the new game problems have been worked out. It happened with Murder on the Orient Express and now again with Haunted House. There are many good things about this room. It has excellent theming, atmosphere and props. A good, if not entirely original backstory. I really wanted to like it. The problem is with the gameplay and puzzles. The game play is not linear which is normally fine. The problem here is that when one element is solved, there is no clear indication of what to do next so you have to ask for hints. Some of which are pretty cryptic and require further hints to understand. Most of the puzzles have 3+ tiers to solve which is also fine if there are not too many because they require a ridiculous amount of time. There are way too many. This game should probably be 30 minutes longer if you were actually going to solve all these multi-tiered puzzles without a million hints. My guess would be that some will be eliminated or simplified after all the negative feedback I've seen. I also had an issue with an auditory clue. The volume was not loud enough to hear and repeat listening just ate up more time. I believe this room has the potential to be a great game with some modifications and adjustments. Just don't pay to beta test like we did.

All I can say I feel this room needs to be a smidge longer with the time given. There were some red herrings and some small kinks that needed to be worked out.

Set design and story line were great but flow was off. This would be near impossible to complete without help. One of the puzzles did not trigger properly holding us up from progressing.