Holy sh*t, what a SET!! And such richness!
๐ช In terms of set: Diagon Alley meets Jules Verne, meets Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in a spectacular way. Iโm still baffled by it. Thereโs some serious talent behind this production.
๐ The story is fun, larger than life, intense, and some details definitely escaped us.
๐น๏ธ The gameplay is a delight. Itโs all classic escape room gameplay but hugely varied, and often the interactions align well with the story, which is one of the hardest things in escape game design.
๐ป For scaredy cats like us: this experience has about 6 moments of jump scares. The mad scientist in the story really is quite frightening. My partner, with no experience in scary escape rooms, took a while for her heart rate and adrenaline to recover.
๐จ๐ปโ๐ฌ Alex was a fantastic host: talented and attentive. Seeing him after the game added a nice extra dimension to already fantastic experience. It also calmed my partner to see such a sweet person after the adrenaline fueled game.
๐ฌ๐ง The game is fully translated into English, which we appreciated a lot. Note: the hints are given through a voice modulater, which we found very hard to understand much of the time. We would simply ask to repeat the hint until we understood it.
๐ I think the ideal team size for this game would be 3 or 4. We found itโs a very good experience for 2 players, but naturally youโll feel a bit overwhelmed from time to time, as this is a VERY rich game.
๐ Special note to escape room fans from San Francisco: I would say this is the modern successor to The Edison Room, in terms of muchness and variety of gameplay. If you liked that, youโll love this.
๐ We took a โฌ25 Uber there from central BCN, but traffic had us delayed by 15 mins, which added some stress because it was just the 2 of us and like I keep saying, this game is RICH. We took the train back from the nearest station, which was a 23 minute walk away. Next time, weโll take the train both ways ;)
๐ฅ An extra note of apprecation to the maker: I noticed and LOVED that you had decorated the cameraโs in style with the rest of the room. Itโs a touch almost no other escape rooms do, and I really appreciated it!
This game will absolutely go on my must-play recommendation list for Barcelona.
Thanks for a marvellous experience!
- Victor from Sherlocked Amsterdam
The gameplay was not particularly novel, but it was RICH and flowed wonderfully
Particularly interesting or different
Yes
Just the set alone is worth flying to Barcelona for
The story was fine, but I consider it one of the weak points because it feels a bit stuffed/contrived and the audio hints were very difficult to understand.
Perfect difficulty level for us!
I loved how tactile everything was and just how MUCH we got to play with!
Very doable with 2, but don't be late like we were (our fault). I think 3 or 4 is ideal.
There's about 6 jump scares, and two scary moments with an actor that doesn't come near you.
Everything worked, which is extra impressive with such a wealth of games
Physically active
Somewhat