Fallout: Bunker Busters [prev. Doomsday Disaster!]

Wife and I ran this and loved EVERYTHING about the room. Very excellent theming and mechanical components. It’s got so much to do to make it challenging. Jakob was an excellent game guide!

Fallout was a great room . Escape Ventures never misses with the gameplay. No hints were used but the puzzles had great flow and required no leap of logic.

Had a great time with my first room with Escape Ventures I-Drive. As I understand they took over this Puzzle Corp room, but designed it initially, so definitely expect that same Escape Ventures experience. Overall the room looked great (with some good music and tunes). I thoroughly enjoyed the puzzles, which were fairly difficult, yet not unenjoyable. I can’t wait to play the rest of the games at this location, and see what games they have coming out!

This room is a reimagining of the former Doomsday Disaster room at Locksmiths. If you had previously played that room (we had) there is enough different here to make a replay worth it. A lot of multi-tiered puzzles that are challenging but fun.

Loved the flow of this room! A few pieces were missing and made a few puzzles difficult to understand but I liked the theming and vibes for sure

Good game with some neat puzzles and fun set pieces, but lacking the polish needed to be great. One item in the room was glued on backward making it nearly impossible to solve without spamming a lock - not exactly inspiring or fulfilling as a puzzle-lover. Recommended for sure, but do Echoes and Bigfoot before this.

This one was a rare miss for us. What is otherwise a pretty solid buildout is marred by a ton of other issues, most importantly gameplay that isn’t streamlined, and puzzles that are just sometimes really obtuse and not as engaging or fun as they should be. It has all the makings of a great room, hampered by the issues of a Gen 1 bad room. Having not been able to play the original in Ocala, we were excited to see it had moved to Orlando and get a chance to try it out. Unfortunately, I’ve read this experience pales in comparison to the original, and well…..I guess it kind of shows? The actual build of the room was fine enough, riffing on the popular vault theming tropes ala Fallout, and some neat little mechanical surprises, but I couldn’t help but feel the whole thing just felt a little…underwhelming. None of the puzzles were really fun to complete. Way too many old school locks and lockboxes for a supposedly modern room. Things that should have “made sense” felt like they were made several extra steps too complicated to waste extra unnecessary time. I didn’t really feel like I was having any actual fun solving a single puzzle, and that’s usually the biggest indicator it isn’t a good room. I think a major factor that didn’t help was I wasn’t entirely thrilled with how our GM handled the game. The game started about 15 minutes late, so we were left standing around at the entrance for way too long before any came to greet us. Before our game, there was no explanation about locks (which is pretty standard for every business to explain them even if you’ve seen them a million times). The GM took WAY too long to give clues when we asked for them (minutes at a time). And there was no indicator at any point to know how much time remained so we abruptly had our game end, and were then rushed through the end game explanation of what we missed. There was no real effort made to make this an enjoyable experience and it felt very much like a “get in get out” revolving door business. Based on this overall experience I don’t know if I can really recommend playing this particular room. It’s a shame because I do want to try other escape rooms here, but this one entire visit has me questioning if I should

I ended up enjoying this room very much, despite having so many problems with it. Some were my own fault, but not all of them. There is a lot to accomplish in this room, especially for two people. We were hampered by low lighting, to the point where the host/GM intervened by bringing us a small flashlight. We also had trouble with finicky locks, which made us waste a lot of time thinking our answers were wrong when they weren't. This happened not just once, but several times. The music and the voice acting were well done and added a lot to the story.

Fantastically themed room. The puzzles all connected into the broader story for the room and the narration throughout the experience really added to the vibe of the room. Some of the puzzles were really on point. A few I rode the struggle-bus with but the GM offered helpful hints to point us in the right direction to keep us on track. We finished with two people but think 3-4 adult sized humans would be perfect for the room.

This is one of the worst rooms we have ever done. Do not do this one. The gameplay wasn’t interesting. So many things were broken that it became annoying. We all left there just feeling let down. The GM would offer advice on a puzzle we had finished a while ago. Several puzzles we did correct and kept checking ourselves when nothing happened. Once the GM came in and pressed a button when he confirmed we did it correctly. Avoid this one. Absolutely horrible.