Perfect Crime

Wild West: Locked up in the local jail, we had to make our escape before the sheriff returned. Asylum: The inmates are running the asylum and our goal was to get out fast. Perfect Crime: Like the board game Clue only better. Who done it? When? With what weapon? Where? We had to figure it all out. PanIQ San Jose is a welcome addition to the San Jose escape room scene. They had only been open a week when we played all three of their rooms. We are happy to report that the experience was top-notch from start to finish. The waiting room was neat and tidy. All of the gamemasters were efficient and friendly. We started our day in the Wild West room and were immediately impressed with the quality of the set design. This room and the other two rooms were perfectly decorated to theme. The sturdy construction made for a great user experience. There was enough searching to make the game fun, but not so many props and so much furniture to prove overly distracting. The game play proceeded smoothly in a simple linear fashion. We did not easily escape, but the puzzles were logical and relatively straight-forward. We completed each game with ten minutes or less to spare and struggled a bit as a result of our own mistakes. The game master helped guide us with hints to keep our game perfectly on pace. We really enjoyed the mix of mechanical, kinesthetic, logic, deductive reasoning and symbol puzzles. Honestly we loved PanIQ room and will highly recommend it to all of our friends. We have played so many poor or middle of the road escape rooms lately that we were pleasantly surprised by our overall awesome experience at PanIQ room. Go play here!

Super random room with lots of things all over the room. Didn't enjoy it much.

This room is very scattered. The clues are random, hard to follow. We asked for a hint and our game master told us to ‘look harder’. Very unfriendly experience, it was like we were bothering the workers. This is the least expensive escape rooms in San Jose for a reason. Spend a little more else where. Very dirty. We asked our game master at the end how to finish this clue, and he didn’t even know how to finish the puzzle.

Overall we weren't incredibly impressed with this room. The rooms were big, but mostly empty. Void of a lot of set decoration that makes escape rooms interesting and fun. While some of the puzzles were interesting, it was obvious that it'd been played a lot--pieces were worn around the edges. There was a place to write down things with dry erase marker, and these things weren't erased before we went in to play the room. Some of the puzzles were fun, and others were simply monotonous.

I liked this room more than some in my group. There was puzzle that we guessed the answer to, and even after they explained how to do, I didn’t understand.

My partner and I attempted this room and did not compete it within the time given. This room was rated their most difficult at this PanIQ location and felt that to be true. We could’ve potentially competed it with more people in our group. Highly recommend more than 2 players for this one.

Some puzzles did not have a clear connection to the solution. Left wondering “how were we supposed to figure that out?”. Puzzles were unique. But don’t be afraid to use clues when you’re running low on time.