Midnight In Hong Kong - Team Vs Team

I did this room as a part of a work engagement, which doesn’t match the majority of my plays. Because of this, I feel I got a different experience. Maybe it was because of the skill sets in the room, but it felt much more overhinted than I am used to. Also the entire engagement is somewhat… abrasive. Most of the time the GM is, what feels like, yelling at us through the speaker system. If you have someone who has sensory issues, this room may be extremely overwhelming. The design is fantastic though, and the gameplay elements work well, the team vs team nature is unique and I think it is an excellent way to handle large groups, since it forces a split that is needed for good problem-solving. This is an intense room, but a lot of fun. Give it a go

The team vs team aspect of the game is very novel, I’m a very competitive person so it was really fun for me to see how we were doing and be able to see the progress on the other team as well, even though we didn’t cross paths and were working on different puzzles. The puzzles themselves were not super hard (we were able to get through with only one hint, but only because we couldn’t find one specific mechanism) but very on theme. For teams, for 90% of the time we were solving the same puzzles but differently themed so it made the competition very fair. However the other team had trouble with one of the unique puzzles given the color of things was not clear which made it harder for them, hope they fix that and make the colors more distinct The story is also easy to follow and flows well with the puzzles which I appreciate given a lot of other escape rooms only make a theme to follow rather than a story

Fun experience! If you have a larger group, this is the escape room for you. You'll be split up into 2 teams so it solves the problem of too many people trying to do something. The puzzles were fun and the mechanics were good. The only caveat is that the losing team may have a worse experience as they won't be able to continue solving the puzzles once a team wins

I’m not sure how the dragon side was but we played on tiger side and I am generally amazed at how well put together this escape room was. It feels like so much could go wrong but they didn’t. Neither side asked gm for any hints in our game but I am curious how gm would make it fair for both sides if one sides asked a lot of hints. The optional puzzles were really cool and novel

Insanely impressive and but waaay too chaotic for me.

Omescape is one of my favorite escape room locations. I’ve played many rooms before, but unique rooms like Midnight in Hong Kong makes it feel like the first time playing an escape room again.

This is a head to head game… chose your team wisely…

Loved the room! So much to do any so many elements that provide a challenge for even the most experienced players in our team. Definitely come with as many people as you can fit in a room. I enjoyed both this one and Chaos in the Galleria but I found Hong Kong to be my favorite for the competitive aspect and variety of puzzles!

Might be biased since my team won… but I had a good time. Cool concept for a room and the competition aspect was fun!

Tier: A (bordering on B+) (see bio) Alright so I have a lot to say about this experience. So much I’m gonna have to split this into 3 distinct parts. But tldr i think it’s a really good idea that could have been done better and I don’t think is run properly. 1. Its very good! It’s very rare to find a team vs. team game like this. Actually I don’t know of anything else exactly like this. Basically you have two different teams playing two 90 minute games of equal difficulty at the same time in the same space. The space is appropriately massive and very densely packed with puzzles. When we first got into the largest space I legitimately got lost from the rest of my group very briefly that’s how daunting it is. And there’s a good amount of twists that it does with this gameplay style throughout that always keeps it engaging. The game also looks really nice. And also the puzzles themselves are all pretty good. Because of this even with my issues this game still barely squeezes out a heart rating. 2. It’s concept is flawed (the sabotage mechanic) (Note this section does slightly spoil one minor aspect of the gameplay and also hints at some twists in the gameplay so if you rly wanna go in blind maybe scroll past this part quickly and try not to read) I don’t think this game does what it sets out to do the best that it could have. In particular an optional “sabotage” mechanic that they put a lot of the games puzzle content into really doesn’t work the way they wanted it to. First of all a lot of the puzzles required to use this mechanic become inaccessible by the time it unlocks which was a weird oversight. But second of all for how much effort you have to put to activate this mechanic the repercussions for the other team are very very small in our limited experiences with the mechanic. This is a large amount of decent puzzles that we completely skip over because they’re only used to activate this mechanic. 3. Not sure this game is run properly I don’t at all want to disparage the game master or any of the staff or owners, but I don’t believe this game is run the way it should be. I also think any of this could have been our fault and we missed something so take all this with a grain of salt. Our GM promised she would be around to give hints, and at some point she did randomly walk through and ask us if we needed help (which, was the intercom broken or something because in person hints always feel awkward). But throughout the second half of the game she never walked in and to my knowledge there was no way to contact her (she was not picking up the hint phone) so we had no way to get hints that whole time. The other team only got one hint because a team member accidentally opened an alarmed door to the hallway (which was the only door out of the room at this point so I’m not sure why it was alarmed) which alerted her over. There also was a reset issue with the room that I talk about in the game breakage section below. The thing is, I’ve seen other people online saying they had reset issues with Midnight in HK, and I’ve seen people saying they didn’t get the best GM service, and (sorry for making assumptions) it probably is because of the fact that this facility has 8 (almost all 90+ minute) games that all run parallel to each other so GM’s most likely have more than one game to run at once (Also we went on New Years so it was probably hard to find staff on this particular day.) I just wish they could put a little bit more attention to these games cause this is great but it could be even better. But hey, they’re pumping out world class escape rooms yearly, Omescape can just keep doing what they’re doing. So yeah overall it’s a fun experimental room that if you have the (very) large group to play and you’re in the area for a while yeah you should play it, but if you only have a little time in the area this is honestly the omescape Sunnyvale I would least recommend, mostly because with such an advanced concept it needs a lot more care put into it than what it gets. Woah I typed a lot Omescape Ranking 1. Robotopia (my 3rd favorite game ever) (gap in quality) 2. Chaos in the Galleria 3. Haruka High (small gap in quality) 4. Kingdom of Cat-astrophy 5. Undercooked 6. Forsaken Temple 7. Apartment Nextdoor 8. Midnight in HK (gap in quality) 9. Witchly Ever After (massive gap in quality) 10. Sorcerer’s Sanctum (gap in quality) 11. Pandemic Zero (big gap in quality) 12. Dark Alter (my 15th least favorite game ever)