Bigfoot: Secrets of The Swamp

First off, I want to thank Isa for being an incredible host! This is easily one of the best escape rooms I’ve ever done and is right up there with Cornstalkers as one of my absolute favorites. VIBE: The immersion here is immediate. You start off in a swamp, and once again they’re pumping in an aromatic smell that can only be described as swamp, trees, and the outdoors!? Even the temperature helps make you feel like you’re actually in this environment. The sound design is also fantastic. From birds and radio transmissions to all the different mechanical sounds and effects happening around you, there is constantly something adding to the atmosphere. It genuinely feels like you’re out in the swamp and something went wrong. What really surprised me though is the scale. You might start in the swamp, but this opens up into one of the biggest escape rooms I’ve ever been in. The build quality is incredible and, just like some of their other rooms, everything feels extremely intentional. PUZZLES: This might be one of the things Bigfoot does better than almost any escape room I’ve done. The puzzles are extremely interactive and there is constantly something for everyone to do. One of my biggest problems with doing escape rooms in large groups is having five people standing around watching one person work on a puzzle. This room is intentionally designed to prevent that. People can split up and work on completely different things, but what makes it so good is how those puzzles eventually start coming together into the same moments. Everyone feels like they’re actually contributing to the experience instead of just following the person solving everything. All of the puzzles themselves are also incredibly logical. Nothing feels random or confusing but there are a few tough clues that are easy to miss. However, I say this in the best way because the difficulty level feels just right. It’s accomplished something really tough to do where an experienced and beginner group can both easily enjoy the escape room. Also, The entire room flows incredibly well from one thing into the next, and you can really tell how deeply intentional the design is… I genuinely struggled to find a flaw during my writing of this review. (My group Made leader boards with a top 2 finish time, which was just under and hour) SIZE: This is one of the VERY few escape rooms where I could actually recommend bringing a large group. Normally I would never recommend doing a room with 8 people, but this is the exception. There is so much space and so many things happening simultaneously that a big group actually works here. HOST: Isa was absolutely fantastic! At one point someone in our group did something they weren’t supposed to do while trying to solve a puzzle, and Isa immediately responded with a legitimately 10/10 joke while still staying completely in character as Lou. That was one of the best host moments I’ve ever had in an escape room. This wasn’t just someone monitoring the game it felt like the character was actually part of the world. I also really appreciated how Isa handled hints. If you don’t want nudges or clues, they actually respect that. Personally, getting unnecessary nudges can take me out of the experience, so the way Isa handled our situation without separating us from the experience was incredible. BIGFOOT: And obviously… we have to talk about Bigfoot. The Bigfoot interaction absolutely makes the group experience. This is a very modern room, and they use the lighting, sound, timing and effects incredibly well to create these moments where suddenly everything changes. Bigfoot is not just something in the story. Bigfoot is after you!! You get chased by Bigfoot, and it is AMAZING. Those moments are such a great payoff after the room spends all this time making you feel like you’re actually stuck in this swamp and you’re being hunted by the BigFoot. OVERALL: This is easily a 10/10 escape room and one of the best rooms I have ever done. CORNSTALKERS is still my personal #1, but Bigfoot is right there behind it. They’re both incredible for the same reasons. The scale, atmosphere, puzzle design, character interaction and Bigfoot encounters all work together unbelievably well. There isn’t one specific gimmick carrying the room the entire experience is just incredibly well designed from beginning to end. Isa was an outstanding host and made an already amazing room even better. I absolutely recommend Bigfoot without hesitation. The Escape Ventures continues to make some of the best escape rooms I’ve ever done in Florida.

I LOVED this game! The Escape Ventures always makes great rooms but dare I say that this is one of my favorites? This room was not as scary as some of the other rooms at The Escape Ventures but it was very immersive and the puzzles flowed so perfectly together. If you’re thinking about trying to venture out into scarier escape rooms but want to start off with something a bit more tame, this would be a great option for you! Our game master (I believe his name was Miles?) also very clearly loved his job and did a notably great job making the experience fun for us!

This game was phenomenal! We had so much fun doing this room. I have to say, Bigfoot caught me off guard and I was pushing people out of the way to leave 🤣. Highly recommend this one!

This room was so cool! By far my favourite escape room I’ve done. The set was really cool and super immersive, they use smells/sounds too to make it as realistic as possible. I don’t like getting scared so I asked if they could keep the actor and make it less scary, they were super accommodating and ran the room with silly Bigfoot instead! KJ2 was our GM and she was amazing! We left the room with 0 questions on any of the puzzles cause everything made sense, also all the hints were perfect and not too revealing of the answer to the puzzles. There’s also physical aspects which I loved! Overall 10/10 definitely try this out!

Fun room loved the scary aspect with live actor

Escape Ventures doesn’t miss. We really enjoyed this room and felt like the live actor added to the fun (shoutout to KC2 for being a fabulous Bigfoot and game master!). We can’t wait for the two new rooms at this location to open!

Another perfect escape room by the escape ventures I am so impressed but not surprised. Every detail was so creative and immersive. The scares were really fun and I recommend playing with the actor. The puzzles were really good as well and everything flowed so nicely. Micheal was such an entertaining game master and made the experience so memorable!

No notes! Amazing game, great themeing and very interactive! Shout out to Logan for being a killer Big foot and game master!

Very fun. We had 5 people in our group. We divided and conquered. There was a great flow to this room. Logan was a great GM.