Under Pressure

Great fun, and very well-paced. We tackled the room as a group of two and managed to complete it with just a few minutes remaining. It blended theme with creative puzzles and made excellent use of its historic building.

First, let me start with my review of the company overall, location and owners first. The location is a historic first Catholic site, the first Catholic church in North Carolina, now renovated with maximal use of every available space for three escape rooms. In addition, the owner clearly has a love and passion for history, escape rooms, and the themes behind each room. From even the way you enter the building, it’s an escape room delight! Ok, now to Under Pressure itself. It’s a solid room and a bit difficult. Not all puzzles seemed intuitive and we needed a fair amount of nudging. A great story & goal. Like all of their rooms, the music is hand-selected with modern-day hits covered in a roaring 20’s style plus some funny song choices when certain puzzles are cracked. The hint system is novel in keeping with 1925.

this was my favorite of the three rooms here (although all of them are great and worth doing)! very immersive and includes elements I haven't seen in other rooms. highly recommend Key to Escape

Total immersion from even before you enter. Roger is clearly passionate about what he does and you can feel the passion while doing the rooms. They took a lot of care and thought with 100% payoff! Total immersion and great puzzles! Really really fun!

I have nothing negative to say about this experience! The place is really cool, the GM was lively and involved and enthusiastic, and the plot line was interesting and not overplayed as can easily happen with escape rooms.

Wow, this room is impressive. It may not be the most difficult but every puzzle is a work of love and so unique. The owner loves gadgets and really is amazing at what he's brought "back to life" to pull this room off. It's beautiful, it feels immersive. Even as far as how you receive "helps" is cool. We drove about 45 minutes out of our vacation plans to try it out, and it was WELL worth it, and plan to make the multi hour drive from home to try the other two rooms soon!

10 out of 10. The best escape room we have done. Clues given in line with the theme of the room. Great staff and awesome owner. Going to do their other room shortly.

The owners and our GM were all fantastic! We really loved the unique building. We enjoyed Under Pressure more than Redemption. The set is very neat and the tech is really cool. Some of the puzzles didn’t make sense for the theme, but they were fun, nonetheless. We needed a fair amount of nudges to find things or open props, things that could have been signposted in theme, but that’s a small gripe. Our team of two needed a couple of extra minutes to finish. There were definitely times that we didn’t know what to do next. The music was so good during the game, and the sounds and music of the last part really turned up the intensity. We definitely recommend playing the games at Key to Escape. Note there are stairs to get to the game.

There's not enough words to express how incredible our time was here. The room itself was 10/10 from the minute we walked in until we escaped. But the owners and staff definitely set this one apart from the over a hundred other locations I've been to. They are passionate about the industry and it shows in the attention to detail, even in the lobby. We will definitely be back.

Oh my gosh! We have done over 50 rooms and we were completely blown away by this room. First of all the setting which is in an old church is just amazing. Then all the attention to detail and beautiful sets really created for a wonderful, immersive experience. The puzzles were challenging but fun and the owners are just so passionate about this. We drove from Charlotte to do this escape room and it was certainly worth the drive. We will definitely be back to try out another room. If you love escape rooms and love immersive environments and mysteries, you must try this. Can't recommend enough! Even if it's a bit of a drive for you, you will not regret it!