Cold War Bunker

Cold Bunker had a cool concept and some interesting ideas, but you can definitely feel that it’s one of their earlier builds and could use a little TLC. A few of the puzzles really had us scratching our heads, and the flow/order felt a bit off at times, which added to the frustration. That said, it was still an interesting escape room experience overall, and I’d be open to giving it another shot down the line to see how it evolves.

Puzzle flow is not good. Clues are not great and it was frustrating to figure out what clues are associated with what problem, or what order a combination should be in and what lock it should go to. It's sorta linear but not in a very coherent way. It's also very lock/combo heavy. This is the first game where I felt so often frustrated that I did not have fun.

Kind of weird to send out a Post-Game survey that asks you to rate your teammates. What's the goal of that? Also: I think anytime you tell the players the lock has faded lettering but it's there, it's time to buy a new $10 lock and just replace it.

so much fun, very clever and felt so satisfying

Definitely not well done for a “linear” room. The room was still decent and fun. But many details did not follow well.

Overall the room is not very smooth. Someone else mentioned clunky and i think that is the perfect word for this room. Some clues did not match well and they reused color codes for things making it a bit unnecessarily confusing. The game master was very nice however.

Escaped this room with 3 people! We had a great time and there was a nice flow to this room. Some of the clues were right in front of our faces without us realizing it, but once we realized it, we were like omg duh.

This escape was a bit straightforward and we had a reasonable time but to describe it in a word, clunky. The game flow didn’t work that well especially with 7 people. There were times where there was not much to do. The puzzles were somewhat basic and there were not really any wow or aha moments. Mostly just a grind through some basic puzzles. My recommendation for this room would be to do it around the 3-4 player count for a better experience.

This was a lot more fun than we expected! It's a cozy space (as one would expect being a bunker) and we finished it comfortably with 2 of us, so I think 2-3 is a great number for this, 4 max. Points for the sound effects, which I think always adds to the experience. It might be an older tech with mechanical puzzles, but we thought that added to its charm, especially the puzzles requiring coordinated teamwork since there were two of us. Thanks Macy for being a cool GM for us!

Almost purely mechanical room with some tech integrated. Decently difficult puzzles, kinda surprising. May possibly be that it felt like a few connections were slightly difficult to make, so possibly continuity. Puzzles are linear so we definitely got lost a few times. Overall a solid room though, enough of an entertainment to be worthwhile