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The Basement
Very positive (645 ratings)
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Will you escape Edward's basement? You and your friends have been kidnapped by Edward Tandy -- a cannibalistic serial killer with a fine taste for unique electronics, taxidermy, and of course human flesh. He has created a sick and twisted game of sorts in his deceased mother's home. He hopes to weed out the unintelligent and find those who are "worthy of escaping" by his late mother's standards. In THE BASEMENT, you and your team will have to employ keen communication skills, a finely tuned organizational prowess, and a general ability to keep your $h!t together under pressure if you want to survive. This is what we like to call a "funnel puzzle" where you will find numerous items and clues throughout the room. These items all come together to orchestrate your escape.
- 1-10
- 45 mins
- Hard
- Scary
Book experience
Awards
- Nominee (2024) - TERPECA
- Nominee (2023) - TERPECA
- Nominee (2022) - TERPECA
- Silver - Best Horror Theme (2021) - Keys To Greatness
- Nominee (2020) - TERPECA
- Silver - Best Horror Theme (2020) - Keys To Greatness
- Nominee (2019) - TERPECA
- Bronze - Best Horror Theme (2019) - Keys To Greatness
All ratings (645)
Very positive
Gameplay
Very positive
Atmosphere
Overwhelmingly positive
Customer service
Overwhelmingly positive
Reviews
virgo
28 escape rooms
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Particularly interesting or different
Yes
Story
Difficulty
Medium
Game tech
Mechanical
Ideal number of players
6
Scary
Scary
Was anything broken?
No
Live actors
Yes
Physically active
Not at all
Easy to find location
Yes
Parking
Easy
stphung
26 escape rooms
I loved the introduction to this experience, it really was highly immersive and got me into the mood. The story was fantastic and just enough to motivate what we were doing. The puzzling itself was pretty standard and it was difficult at certain points. Loved the set of this room as well as the actor, was great. Overall super fun room with a few scary moments but I recommend doing this room even if you're slightly unsure because it is a great experience!
Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Particularly interesting or different
Yes
Story
Difficulty
Hard
Game tech
Mechanical
Ideal number of players
6
Scary
Scary
Minimum age
18
Was anything broken?
No
Live actors
Yes
Physically active
Somewhat
Easy to find location
Yes
Parking
Easy
ExpandedCircle
289 escape rooms
There is a lot to love about this room, especially the pre-show introduction/set up. But it is BY FAR the worst room at this location. While the set and atmosphere is excellent, the gameplay is very lackluster (and I am not normally someone that cares all that much about good puzzles) and it felt like a letdown given all the hype. It very much feels like an early generation escape room dressed up in fancy haunted house clothes. That being said, you absolutely should go play all four rooms The Basement has to offer, in order. Just know that if you only come to play this one room you aren't getting the best The Basement has to offer.
Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Parking
Easy
Nokcha
4 escape rooms
The spooky and dark atmosphere in combination with the short time of only 45 minutes makes this room difficult to escape. My vision isn't the best and with the little time we had, it was definitely a challenge trying to navigate through some of the puzzles. Overall I found it more of a scavenger type of escape vs a linear Puzzle which isn't bad but just not my cup of tea.
Gameplay
Didn't flow too well. Felt more like a scavenger hunt than anything
Atmosphere
Live actor was interesting but not really necessary
Customer service
Ideal number of players
4
MattBond
24 escape rooms
𓆜𓋘𓄁 𓊛𓇙𓋸𓌤𓌥 𓌦 𓅐𓆢 𓆣 𓀉𓆤 𓆥 𓅑𓆘 𓆙 𓅒𓄙 𓄚 𓄛 𓅓𓃺 𓃻 𓅔 𓅕 𓃕 𓃖 𓃗 𓎷 𓄁𓎸𓅖 𓅽 𓅾 𓅿𓅗 𓅘 𓇆 𓇇𓅙 𓅚 𓁵 𓁶𓂵 𓂶𓃝𓋲 𓋳𓀬 𓅛𓁃 𓂺𓅜 �𓅝𓃄 �𓄁𓅞𓂙 𓅟𓂿 𓆜𓋘𓄁 𓊛𓇙𓋸𓌤𓌥 𓌦 𓅐𓆢 𓆣 𓀉𓆤 𓆥 𓅑𓆘 𓆙 𓅒𓄙 𓄚 𓄛 𓅓𓃺 𓃻 𓅔 𓅕 𓃕 𓃖 𓃗 𓎷 𓄁𓎸𓅖 𓅽 𓅾 𓅿𓅗 𓅘 𓇆 𓇇𓅙 𓅚 𓁵 𓁶𓂵 𓂶𓃝𓋲 𓋳𓀬 𓅛𓁃 𓂺𓅜 𓂨𓅝𓃄 𓄁𓅞𓂙 𓅟𓂿
liamc9360
110 escape rooms
Nah I pissed myself
Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Particularly interesting or different
Yes
Story
Difficulty
Hard
Game tech
Mechanical
Ideal number of players
4
Scary
Scary
Minimum age
16
Was anything broken?
No
Live actors
Yes
Physically active
Somewhat
Easy to find location
Yes
Parking
Easy
ShelbyGTFO
244 escape rooms
𓆜𓋘𓄁 𓊛𓇙𓋸𓌤𓌥 𓌦 𓅐𓆢 𓆣 𓀉𓆤 𓆥 𓅑𓆘 𓆙 𓅒𓄙 𓄚 𓄛 𓅓𓃺 𓃻 𓅔 𓅕 𓃕 𓃖 𓃗 𓎷 𓄁𓎸𓅖 𓅽 𓅾 𓅿𓅗 𓅘 𓇆 𓇇𓅙 𓅚 𓁵 𓁶𓂵 𓂶𓃝𓋲 𓋳𓀬 𓅛𓁃 𓂺𓅜 �𓅝𓃄 �𓄁𓅞𓂙 𓅟𓂿 𓆜𓋘𓄁 𓊛𓇙𓋸𓌤𓌥 𓌦 𓅐𓆢 𓆣 𓀉𓆤 𓆥 𓅑𓆘 𓆙 𓅒𓄙 𓄚 𓄛 𓅓𓃺 𓃻 𓅔 𓅕 𓃕 𓃖 𓃗 𓎷 𓄁𓎸𓅖 𓅽 𓅾 𓅿𓅗 𓅘 𓇆 𓇇𓅙 𓅚 𓁵 𓁶𓂵 𓂶𓃝𓋲 𓋳𓀬 𓅛𓁃 𓂺𓅜 𓂨𓅝𓃄 𓄁𓅞𓂙 𓅟𓂿
Zachntruckee
225 escape rooms
This room is really tough to rate, because the actual game is pretty good, decent puzzles though it’s really just a lot of search puzzles. I really really didn’t like the live actor, because she became a part of the team, but a pushy overly hinting member of the team that honestly kinda of ruined the experience. But it’s hard to really poorly rate the room, because things were still better than your average escape room. But it was agreed upon by all 6 of us that it was by far the worst at The Basement.
Gameplay
Ehhh, very non linear and a lot of stuff presented at once, but not used for a while. So, not much “flow”. Shows it’s age a good bit, still fun though.
Atmosphere
Fairly impressive, it more or less looked like a basement nowhere near their most impressive room though.
Customer service
GM was great, the actor was way overly pushy with hints, she basically walked us through the room, which was very frustrating.
Particularly interesting or different
No
Story
The story is well integrated, throughout all their rooms, which is one of the basement’s strength.
Difficulty
Medium
Game tech
Mechanical
Ideal number of players
4
Scary
Scary
Minimum age
10
Was anything broken?
No
Live actors
Yes
Physically active
Not at all
Easy to find location
No
Parking
Medium
IvanA
112 escape rooms
We had a lot of fun in this room and our actor was the best! We liked it so much that we failed the first time and came back to win!
Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Live actors
Yes
Editorial
“It's the hardest game they have, but don't let it scare you away.“
60 Second Escape Room Reviews
“... it’s an above average experience for sure.“
Esc Room Addict
“The Basement was more in line with a horror survival video game...“
Escape Mattster
“From the sights and sounds, to the odors and textures, The Basement was on point.“
Room Escape Artist