Cube Challenges [Interactive Arcade]

It’s a fun concept like activate or time mission - individual challenge rooms. They offer easy medium and hard modes, you can play 60 or 90 minutes and play each room as much (or little) as you want. Now that said, as an experienced puzzler and challenge room enthusiast, I did not like this location. I wanted to like it but it was pretty poorly kept or set up. First, every room - the door was difficult to open and then time would start before the door would shut. They need to add a countdown so all group members can at least walk in the room before it starts. Second, so many buttons or other items within literally didn’t work. You’d press a button 4-5 times and it wouldn’t turn on, in the next turn it would respond on the first try. Multiple rooms with this issue. Third, everyone on the team has to scan in and play entirely to the end. Some rooms require climbing - well with my bum arm, my friends knee, and a party member who exceed the weight limit, we literally couldn’t do the room with only 1 team member getting to play - it’s all or nothing. The bakery room - the levers wouldn’t stay and you’d have to hold them in place at their level. Well if you don’t have 4 people with 8 hands you can’t do the puzzle. The math room. Please tell me why on medium mode most of the questions was figuring out negative numbers addition and subtraction. I’m good at math. It was so frustrating I Literally f-bombed in the middle of that room. I think this place needs to make adjustments to their puzzles to not be so touchy or make sure they are in good condition. I’m all for a challenge but it was too overly hard.

Rating: 3.5/5 - Fun challenge arcade, I liked the variety of mental and physical challenges but some games were better than others. Most games worked well though a couple had minor tech issues, the employees immediately worked to address the issues once we reported them.This is a chain brand from Greece so the theming and games felt polished, unlike Mish Mash at Fox Valley Mall which had some jankiness. Overall I prefer Activate over Cube Challenges, mainly because I like the more physical games that Activate has and additional challenge levels. Some of the Cube rooms have better and more interesting theming than Activate though. If you want to try everything with time to replay your favorites, I recommend 90 minutes.