The Experiment

The Experiment

Mixed (2 ratings)

  • Escape room
  • IRL

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You’ve been selected to participate in a classified Artificial Intelligence study; Project ARTIE (Artificial Reasoning and Thought Integration Experiment). Your mission: assist lead researcher Charlie in evaluating ARTIE’s moral and logical stability inside a controlled testing chamber. At first, everything seems routine. ARTIE greets you politely. The puzzles respond logically. Data flows cleanly. But as the minutes tick away, something begins to change. ARTIE learns fast and starts questioning your motives, your logic… and your humanity. When the system begins to glitch and Charlie loses control, you’ll have just 60 minutes to outthink the very intelligence you helped create. Every decision matters. Every word could be used against you. Will you escape the experiment or become part of it?

  • 2-8
  • 60 mins
  • Hard
  • Not scary

Ratings

All ratings (<3)

Mixed

Reviews

S

Shenanigans

38 escape rooms

We enjoyed this one but it was fairly easy. Our experienced family of four finished it in about a half hour. The room atmosphere was really neat, we just wished there was a little more of it.

Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Difficulty

Easy

Jan 4, 2026

d

dboytim

7 escape rooms

This is a brand new room and we played it on what I think was the day it opened. That definitely impacted our experience. The room is a GREAT idea - it's basically Portal, with you being in an experimental lab run by an AI that goes wrong. When you enter the room, you've got bare white walls and a cool mirrored/LED floor, very futuristic and bare looking. There's not the normal loads of stuff to look at. We did succeed in escaping, but we did need several helps and even a bypass of one puzzle. We're convinced we were doing it right, but it never accepted our answer. Each person in our group tried solving it individually and it never approved our solution, so finally the operator bypassed it for us. There are some very clever effects and items in this room. However, the overall thing fell flat for us. The AI wasn't as interesting as we'd expected - we thought it'd be taunting us and stuff, but it didn't. It was also hard to hear the voice. We did give feedback after playing of some things that could be easily improved, so hopefully they fix them, like boosting the voice volume vs the music. The room description also says, interestingly, that skirts/dresses are not recommended. If you're wondering, that's because multiple times we were sitting and even lying on the floor to access some puzzles. We've done many of the Breakout Games rooms (as well as other places) and this one just didn't live up to the rest, at least not yet. Hopefully some tweaks can get it up there.

Gameplay

Fun idea, not as well executed as we wanted it to be

Atmosphere

Room looked great and had a lot of cool things

Particularly interesting or different

Yes

Story

Great idea, but execution fell short. Needs more AI voice interacting with you. And there's one thing that happens all at once that would be better done if it was drawn out.

Difficulty

Hard

Game tech

High tech

Ideal number of players

4

We had 5 people. Most of the puzzles lend themselves to just one person at a time looking/working on them. With a bigger group, people will be standing around waiting with nothing to do.

Scary

Not scary

Minimum age

14

Definitely not for little kids - some things need reach or height, and some puzzles are pretty complex

Was anything broken?

Yes

Live actors

No

Physically active

Not at all

You do have to sit or lie on the floor, but there's no climbing or anything like that. Oh, there is some jumping in place but I think one person could do all of that.

Accessibility

This DOES require a lot of color recognition.

Easy to find location

Yes

Parking

Easy

Jan 2, 2026 | Experienced Jan 1, 2026

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