reillylikereally
158 escape rooms
Chaos Kitchen is the perfect name for this game because that is what it is. Not setup in the usual escape room format, your goal is to get as many recipes completed as you can. The game is designed from replay-ability in that sense. However it just ended up being SO overwhelming as the premise wasn’t very clear at the start so it let to the first 15mins feeling unclear as to how we progressed. Once we understood and got into a game flow it was really fun and challenging. We did run into problems where the tech wasn’t working properly for the inputting of the codes. I understand these things happen but it didn’t dampen the vibe of the game. I was super disappointed to see how much AI generated images there was in the game, it’s so disappointing to see that used in a creative industry. Overall it was quite frustrating despite having a great premise and some interesting puzzles. I’ll definitely come back to it though once some of the kinks have been worked out.
Gameplay
The game was certainly novel and not at all like a regular escape room set up. This lead to so many cool elements but also some frustrations.
Atmosphere
They did a great job with the immersion of the space. I was super disappointed to see AI in the room though. Especially when there was obviously a lot of effort elsewhere in the design.
Customer service
Omventure are famous in my head for having good rooms and bad customer service. However at this location everyone we interacted with was friendly, helpful and nice!
Particularly interesting or different
Yes
The goal of this game is not to escape as such and there is no way to ‘lose’ the game as you’re just trying to race the clock to get as much done as you could. I think it would benefit from being at least a 75min experience.
Story
Silly and whimsical! Great concept!
Difficulty
Hard
There was so much to get through and they were not simple designs.
Game tech
High tech
Ideal number of players
4
Scary
Not scary
Minimum age
16
Was anything broken?
Yes
Unfortunately the tech that they had set up wasn’t compatible with certain elements of the game. We would figure out an answer and it wouldn’t be ‘correct’ on the iPad. When we called the host to check our work we were given different item codes from the previous venue that worked. And the new codes weren’t activating. It was a huge shame because we felt cheated out of those moments of completing a task.
Live actors
No
Physically active
Not at all
Easy to find location
Yes
Parking
Easy
Safety
Yes
