Amerikaano Xpress Saaga [Amerikaano Xpress Saga]

Amerikaano Xpress Saaga is absolutely a game worth traveling for. There wasn’t a note wrong in the whole experience from the cold start through the transition between the two games to the last moment of the game after escaping. We were surprised, delighted and giddy during and after the game and felt in really good hands throughout. The care and thought shown by the creator-interactors was evident in puzzle design, environments and the game flow. Especially the latter part of the game, while still scary, has humour and moments of hilarious social interactions with a delightfully unhinged in-game character. If you’re not playing with children, I’d highly recommend the horror version - we asked for the mildest horror possible but now that we know we’re in good hands, I’d go back and play at a more intense level 🎃

The pure scale and inclusion of live actors is what makes this an unskippable escape experience in Finland. A massive 3 hour run time gets you deeply invested into the world and the 10+ seperate rooms of this duology means you'll be discovering new spaces throughout the whole experience. The actors interact with you in a completely different way in both halves. The rooms have a good selection of different puzzles throughout to not make the players exhausted of repetitive tasks, which is very impressive for such a long room. The puzzles are well designed but varying in uniqueness. Not many of the puzzles were very high tech or featured interesting props but some great highlights can also be found. I think objectively the second half of this – Susi – is the better one. The interactions with the actors make you feel like a part of live theater and the ending is so intense and memorable. The puzzles are also more unique in Susi with my favorite ones being in the midpoint of that room. The first half – Kylä – however was favored by half of our 6 player group who all were less experienced with escape rooms so technically the vote in our party was 50-50%. Maybe the puzzles were more unique for them as they had only played 2-5 rooms before this but what was for certain is that they really enjoyed the more frightening monster and ambiance of Kylä. I had some gripes of course but they we're largely overshadowed by all the amazing aspects. I disliked the jumpscares. They felt cheap and out of place. One of the players got hurt twice during them, once because of her own jumpyness bumping and bruising her arm on a cabinet and once because I ran into her while backing away from a scare. It is to be noted that we asked for all the spices regarding the scares so I'm not sure if jumpscares are part of a regular game. The backstory felt a little confusing and scattered we figured out bits and pieces all throughout the rooms but even after asking about it from the game master after the game it didn't fully make sense to us and apparently has a lot of unexplained plotholes. Not that the BACKstory matters that much anyway as the stort that you get to actively live throughout especially Susi is where the room really shines. Overall this was a truly once in a lifetime experience for us and we kept talking about it hours after and even continuing on to the next day. This room is made by escape room enthusiast with over a thousand played games, and it shows! Thorough care has been poured in to make the whole experience as enjoyable as possible!

I can't recommend this highly enough. You don't see this kind of expertise every day, and every detail works perfectly. The challenges, the atmosphere, the setting, the story, and everything else come together perfectly, and people will be talking about this "monster" of an escape room for days, even weeks, afterward. 100/10.