Pandorum

Had a great time escaping this room. I was afraid our group might not escape as I know it is rated as a decently difficult room, but it wasn’t too bad for us. I guess it’s just one of those rooms that we had synergy with. Enjoyed the theme, and the fact that our party of 5 were always busy. No one felt left out of the experience!

This room clearly has not been given the TLC it needs. There was a lot of broken elements but we were warned about that before the room started and was told to “ask the computer” if we got the right answer if nothing happened. The story was great but there was definitely some missing plots. I will say the game master was very up front with these issues.

I feel like I paid just to be stressed out. I’ve done a lot of escape rooms and simply did not have fun in this one at all neither did the friends i came with

Definetly wasn’t the hardest escape room in Orlando, just tedious and underwhelming, very cheap looking.

Thos is why i never trust peoples reviews...... YES it was a very difficult room, YES there were a LOT of puzzles, but YES it all made sense. I thought it was cool. It had unique puzzles and you really had to think outside the box. Would i do it again? Probably not, but we had fun in this room.

New owners so I don't want to be too harsh on what they purchased... But this is the most obtuse and dull take on outerspace ever. How do you make space boring? More of a slog than "difficult" - and sadly, just not fun. The first puzzle was akin to doing an accounting audit but you don't get paid - you pay them (want to read an excel sheet for 20 minutes for 5 separate locks? - book this now!) The most uninteresting start to a game - there was a cool puzzle midway through with some unique elements, but after the absolutely tedious first room, we were all over it by then. There were also errors... Matching colors in one puzzle was important, but for one of the colors they were different tones. We had to get a clue and we were told to match the two "orange" items. But there was only one orange - the other item was yellow... We didn't get out, but we asked for the last puzzle to be explained to us, and the GM said "I honestly forget how to do that because no one gets that far." One final important point - you are not allowed to enter the codes or try the switches on your own - you have to tell the GM what you think it is, and then she "approves" before you input it. Completely breaks the mood and theme. This happens throughout the entire game. Very bad design. Needs reworking, this one...

I was really excited to try “Pandorum,” as it is billed as “the hardest room” in Orlando. However, we were left disappointed by our experience and felt like the space did not live up to all of the hype. As we arrived in the lobby, the staff tried to convince us “not” to try the room because it was “really hard.” We’re always up for a good challenge, so we insisted we wanted to try. Despite our plea and our booking for Pandorum, we were repeatedly asked to try another room, “Cryptid Crisis.” After a few more minutes of us insisting, we were led to the room. Before the game started, the GM confessed that they didn’t want us to play this room because it was hard for them to reset and hard for the GM to manage the gameplay. We were told many times that if we entered in codes wrong we would be penalized many minutes. There seemed to be significant puzzle and mechanical challenges in this space. We were told repeatedly that we could not “try” to solve puzzles a certain way. And many times, the tone used by the GM was not very kind. As it stands, I’m not sure the space is in a condition to be played. The only difficult thing about this room was navigating the “dos” and “don’ts”of solving their puzzles.

Does “hardest” mean puzzles designed to waste the most time?

Despite the negative reviews, we did not mind this room! We barely escaped however with only two people and only used two clues!

The room itself wasn’t as terrible as the reviews. However, reading others experiences before tackling this room was helpful. We didn’t get any clues that were overwhelmingly helpful, but knowing that there are tons of locks, lots of switches, helped us prepare a bit for what was ahead. This game wasn’t nearly as hard as it seems to be, it’s the amount of puzzles that need complete. Needless to say, we had 4 seconds left when we finished so it was close. Someone else said it, but paper and pencil would’ve helped.