I Segreti di Salazar [The Secrets of Salazar]

Other reviews have hit the nail on the head: this room is among the coolest we’ve done in terms of solely set design, but beyond that it’s tough sledding. The room is beautifully decorated and perfectly on-theme — if you’re more a Harry Potter fan than escape room fan, you’ll enjoy this room. However, the actual gameplay elements made the room virtually unplayable. I won’t beat a dead horse, but the whole room is so dark that average-difficulty clues become near impossible, the keys fit into every lock to the point where you have to ask the GM to tell you if you’re even using the right one (which you often can’t hear over the room audio), and the sheer amount of objects that aren’t part of the game make it extraordinarily difficult to figure out what you are supposed/allowed to interact with. By the time you make it to the second portion (by far the coolest part), you’re already so low on time and patience that you almost don’t even want to play anymore. All that said, I will disagree with the reviews about customer service. The staff was incredibly friendly and welcoming, and their failure to help during the game was far more a product of game design than obstinacy by the GM. They’re certainly not at fault for this room’s being bad, but I would strongly advise against playing it.

The room needs to be more play-tested - Lighting -At times it’s too dark to see the puzzle. - Audio - you can’t hear the audio/GM well. - Logic - puzzle requires you to selectively break the rules given by GM to not interact with certain objects. - Set - The set design was spectacular! You can tell the set designer put a lot of work into it - The GM was really kind but we wished she’d follow along what we were doing. The hints given were a few steps behind

This was a cool Harry Potter set with puzzles poorly shoved into it. The puzzles were often not near lights, so you couldn’t see them. You’re given keys that can fit into 5 possible locks and the cluing points at the wrong one. Feedback isn’t super clear and the GM can’t override any puzzles or shut off responses. There are things that look like puzzles but are just set dressing. I’ve seen someone rank this room as second best in Rome, which makes me worried about playing any other rooms in Rome.