The Seventh Room

scary

loved mandy!!!

Just one clue was not put back but did not cause us much of a delay as we were able to brute force the answer as we had the rest of the clues that were apart of it.

Yes and No. Nobody in the room with you but definitely around to scare you.

Need at least one person with mobility unless you specify before the game they may be able to accommodate.

There’s one section where one person needs to be brave.

So many cool features that are unique to this room

LOVED all the Tilman lore

3-5 is probably ideal

Not for the faint of heart ❤️ 😍🤪 If you do not choose to do the isolation part, it will be more physchologically scary, not jumpy.

One of the ghostly interactions in the first room didn’t work which made solving a puzzle confusing.

🤭🤭🤭not actually but we did in ours ❤️

There are a lot of puzzles. A few of them make sense and are well clued. Many of them are not well clued. The lighting conditions are poor in several places where you need to read very small or faint things, which is especially frustrating when they go out of their way to make you put your phones in a lockbox at the opening. I don’t mind reading in an escape room, but you’ve gotta give me some light. To trigger the finale interaction you have to interact with the spirits… which involves a dad joke. I am a connoisseur of dad jokes, but every other element of the entire experience is trying to be scary, so that’s exactly the wrong moment for cornball humor. I have no clue why anyone thought that was a good idea.

The set is good. When it was new, it was probably very good. As it stands, there is a lot of wear and tear. A couple of key props didn’t work right for us and we had to have the GM tell us what was supposed to happen, which is disappointing.

Our GM was wonderful. She clearly loves her job and she is fully conversant on the extensive backstory that links all of this company’s rooms together. Her enthusiasm was delightful. I wish I had loved the room as much as she does.

As a nearly two-hour room this is arguably different, but I don’t felt like the extra time was especially well spent. I would cut out the entire middle section and use the space freed up to make the first space substantially larger. The puzzle density vs. how much square footage is allocated to each section is just off.

I think this is the conclusion of the Dare 2 Escape metastory (it felt like we did something that definitively ended the struggle between the two factions) but there is a lot to follow. I feel like there should be a bit more of an in-room reason to be there other than the overarching plot, because if you just take this room by itself, the story isn’t that clear. But it was fine, I got the gist and I am not interested in becoming an expert on the elaborate mythology of the Tremaynes versus the McCoys… er, whoever we were.

I would say medium if you are on the right brain wavelength with the person who designed these puzzles, but our group was not on that wavelength, so they were harder for us. That said, they give you 105 minutes to finish the room, and I feel like that’s pretty fair. We finished in 70ish so I do think the level of difficulty paired with the time allowance is reasonable.

Mostly mechanical with a couple of “ghostly” moments that are more high tech.

There is a lot to do. At one point a single member of the team will be isolated in a small space, so you couldn’t do this room solo. Given the first area in particular is very small and has a majority of the puzzles in the whole game, I would say 2, but given the number of puzzles (many of which are solvable in parallel) I will say 3. We had 4 and while it was not unworkable, it was uncomfortable.

Ghosts, dead bodies, coffins, a crypt. A couple of attempts at jump scares which frankly were neither surprising nor scary other than in a “county fair haunted house” sort of way. Someone will have to reach into something icky. Someone must deal with syringes full of fluids and sift through ashes.

Overall the theme and content hew towards what I would call PG-13, but definitely not R.

A key prop didn’t work, which was a bummer (we triggered the interaction three times and finally the GM just gave us the information). Several of the other props and locks are in rough shape.

I wouldn’t call it “live actors” but there are a couple of moments where you will see or hear things that a human does. These moments did add to the experience.

There is a climb up a 45-degree ramp/ladder, but it has decent handholds. There is a climb up and down a “staircase” made of rocks which I personally felt were too narrow to be safe, but there are handrails and only one person has to do it. No ankles were broken despite my misgivings. There is another point when someone has to lie on a rolling board and slide into a tight space (like you would do to get under a car). Several of the puzzles require interacting with locks and props at ground level. Someone has to go down a slide in pitch darkness and will be in an enclosed space for a few minutes.

Definitely not accessible (see notes above about climbing and crouching), but also the space is too small and uneven for a wheelchair.

Game play flowed well and puzzles were tiered solves

Set design and special effects were great. The rooms are very dimly lit. Almost too dim to be functional in some areas. Everything is creepy and immersive including sound effects.

Staff were great and very helpful.

There were a could of things in this room I had never experienced before and at least one that I can't believe no other review has mentioned.

Appropriately scary and creepy.

I would say medium bordering on hard. As previously mentioned, there is not enough light in a couple of areas and it is almost impossible to read to things. There are also a couple of challenges that are very difficult and may be impossible for some.

There are a fair amount of locks but definitely more high tech overall.

We played successfully with two. Might be slightly easier with four but not necessary.

They will ask you for a safe word before starting so make your own assumptions from there.

Not for small children!

Nothing was broken. There were a couple of set pieces with some damage but our GM helped us through it.

There is some climbing and crawling involved.

Probably not the best for anyone with impairment issues.

The attentive GM was one of the best parts of the game

A lot of stuff was broken, but the GM handled it as well as humanly possible

There are a few sections where one player will have to enter a small space and maybe crawl