The Dome

Our new favourite escape room Excellent variety of puzzles and an incredible set to match. The dome is on a different level to any escape room I’ve done before We were a team of two and finished with a minute to spare

Felt like I was in an anime! Play if you want to live out your action adventure dreams. Clever use of space, creative theming and fun vibe changes from room to room. Tricky, but not as hard as I was expecting. We played with 2 but it would be better with 3 or 4. Some elements were physically difficult with only 2 - playing with a very tall man was helpful. Also, your game master shows you a highlight reel after the fact, which was a nice touch.

Wow, what did I just play?! The Dome was a unique, frenetic dash through a variety of environments. We were warned ahead of time that even though we were an experienced group, we should still play really hard. This was 100% accurate, and I'm glad we did - we barely had time left. The set was fantastic, one of the best I've ever seen. Puzzles fit in really well and were quite memorable. Story... OK, I guess? It's unique but not meaningful, and I felt like some things weren't explained well in game (or after) at all. It's fine, I'm not here for the story, I'm here for the gameplay, and The Dome delivered.

let me reach for a strange analogy... playing The Dome felt like reading Wuthering Height. Not because its Gothic or windswept or brooding. But because I understood almost immediately why its famous. I could see its precision, originality of voice. I appreciated it, but I didn't love it. I frequently found myself thinking “that's clever,” or “what a great way to do a split-room puzzle.” And “that one puzzle,” the one people were talking about last week on Discord? It's elegant and beautifully designed. But admiration isn't the same as affection. The premise itself is delightfully weird, and I really did love the way the game reorients itself after the first part. But I wanted more. I wanted it to lean harder into its strangeness, to push further and get weirder. When I wanted reality torn open at the perforation, I felt like it wanted to microdose. This was a divisive experience for our team. Half loved it outright. The other half left appreciative.

The hardest I have ever puzzled in my life. Bring your A game.

I’ll only say this: what the actual f*ck… in the best possible way.

S tier! Must play for all escape room enthusiasts. We played as a duo and it was difficult with two, but doable. Just had 30 seconds left at the end.

What an absolutely buck wild experience. This really lived up to its top ten in the world rating. From the jump you could tell that they’d thought of everything. Mind blowing.

A very unique game, and a marvel of technology and engineering. And yet, maybe due to the overhype or the fact we only played it as a team of 2, the game did not click for us past the first (and very strong) 15-20 minutes. Acknowledging the narrative framing device, the story outside of it (its premise) does not make sense, doesn't really get rounded up. Being colorblind, two puzzles tasked me with guiding my partner while not able to see properly and calling out something "black" when it was dark green, and missing out on a guiding symbol entirely at a later point... We never recovered from those moments of frustration during the game, not helped by a late-game magnet not recognising that our task was complete, and stuck in a loop telling us to do exactly what we just had (a very, very, very simple "put this one thing exactly here"). This probably won't happen to anybody else though, and it was one magnetic sensor in an otherwise mindblowing display of tech!

It's almost completely unnecessary to add a voice to the chorus at this point - but The Dome is terrific! The story is a bit vague, but I didn't think it mattered. It's just a bunch of fun, full of creative brilliance, a physical adventure.