Uncle Julio is missing, his shady past catching up. The restaurant is failing—find his hidden recipes and uncover the truth before time runs out.

Panic Escape Room

Tacos & Trouble in Tijuana

Escape room

Easily the most polished game at Panic Escape Rooms (Haven’t played Occult Museum or Alien) A fun atmosphere, cool props, and solid and logical puzzles made it fun to play through. There were only a few issues. 

Strengths-
+ Lock mapping- locks were not mapped traditionally through proximity or matching colors, symbols, etc. but panic escape rooms allowed for variety of lock inputs to minimize wasted time

+ Implemented tech was very welcome at a company that almost does not use it at all 

+ Red herring management. Some of Panic’s games have large amounts of red herrings that look like puzzles. The red herrings here mostly just added to the atmosphere, and didn’t detract from the gameplay. 

+ The music, set design, and props helped immerse you. 

+ good balance of complicated, time-intensive puzzles and quick easy win puzzles

+1 logic puzzle was especially memorable 

Areas to Improve/personal preferences

- Wow, that’s a lot of math in an escape room.
- The ending worked with the story, but I wish there was more from a puzzling standpoint. 
- The coolest props deserve good interactions  :/
- 1 lock literally broke mid-game 
-  A couple of weak puzzles that will leave you like “really?” 

Solid room overall though!

Great room! Funny and immersive atmosphere, fun but challenging puzzles and lots for people to spread out and do. For our two person group we just made it and escaped. Thank you GM for the extra clues to get us through. Highly recommend!

Definitely A LOT to do so it’s more difficult with 2 people. Should be a 75 min room

Well-constructed and decorated.  Much more difficult than is immediately apparent.

Thank you for the fun review!!! I’m sure we all needed shots after that lol

Tequila Mucho! 

iBien! We were expecting this to be a chill room for tacos y burritos, but it ended up being a densely packed room. The puzzles aren’t necessarily super hard, but it can take long if you have less people. The pace required, searching around, sheer number of locks, red herrings make it harder than it really should be. I just wanted a tequila dios mio! Thankfully, our GM gave us extra time because our team of 2 was too busy taking a siesta. Ay ay ay. But otherwise, this room is pretty fun and nicely decorated for all fiestas! Ole!

Tacos & Trouble in Tijuana

Panic Escape Room - Hoffman Estates

Ratings

Reviews

Mipatitos

Sunshinneyy97

Gameplay

Atmosphere

Customer service

Particularly interesting or different

Bjn1630

Gameplay

Atmosphere

Customer service

Live actors

PuzzleDadNWChLand

Gameplay

Atmosphere

Customer service

Was anything broken?

Panda

Gameplay

Atmosphere

Customer service

Particularly interesting or different

Story

Difficulty

Game tech

Scary

Was anything broken?

Live actors

Physically active

Easy to find location

Parking

PANICESCAPEROOM (Owner)