The Code: Cyber Heist

Some cool black light and neon decor. Not the best decor but it’s also a pretty hard concept to do theming for so I understand.

They have it listed as a hard room but no puzzle was too hard and there were not a lot of puzzles either.

The emergency exit in one room did not work. Most of our time had been trapped after the door closed but thankfully one team member remained outside and remembered the code. We hit it multiple times with no luck which was a little concerning. The doors lock if closed again so if you close a door, hopefully you remember the code for it.

A lot of color puzzles so you would need at least one person who is not colorblind to solve several things. The space in later rooms is small and cramped so it may require a bit of maneuvering to get around.

The flow was really poor and virtually impossible to figure out what to do next without help. Then once we got help, the flow still made no sense as to how a player could come up with the next step.

Extremely minimal props. A few locks, a safe and a computer screen.

Staff was great but the game itself was terrible.

All physical puzzles worked, but the tech puzzles had CONSISTENT issues. Reset errors and tech issues consistently broke the game flow - we spent maybe 20+ minutes of our 52 minute time with the right answer but something wasn’t working or something wasn’t being explained right. Game had at least 2 ghost puzzles / components in it. It’s been in operation for a month. End sequence was really only possible by one person, extremely repetitive, and extra information is given that feels useful but simply isn’t.

It was honestly the expected. Just a shelf, a couple pics on the wall, and a couple computers and monitors. Nothing impressive, but nothing obviously broken.

The staff was dismissive of us from when we entered the building, asked for them to lock a door they failed to reset properly, asked for hints on things that either didn’t open on correct answers or deactivated mid game, and left us after simply opening the door and not even entering the room to debrief. We had to take the endgame photos ourselves. They ignored us. We didn’t know our GM’s name until we realized it was on the back of the 15% discount code for “next time”.

Stop a hacker plot by… uh, I have no idea. The story doesn’t make sense. It just has “hacker” energy like you asked ChatGPT to spit out tech words.

Hard - puzzles are ambiguous, didn’t work, or got right answers but didn’t accept them. 20 of 52 minutes in the room were spent going “idk what’s wrong” and realizing the game is the issue, not us.

Felt Gen 1 with barrenness and the only tech being locked doors and a safe that locked after 2 failed attempts for the rest of the game - every tech thing besides the endgame and needed the GM to override it.

There’s not enough to do for 6+ people and is a tight space… with not much to actually do.

What wasn’t broken was some basic 5-dial combo locks and props given to them via corporate. Everything else had a tech issue, including the door to the second room, the door to the third room, the safe in the second room, the keyboard in the second room.

Basic walking.

Very tight spaces in the second and third room, to where idk if you could pass someone in a wheelchair. Color is important at various points. Close reading needed. Small text and dyspraxia issues.

Strip mall.

Strip mall.