The Gift

Definitely some novel elements. But as with most Red Door games we’ve done, the flow is questionable.

Loved the set design. Some fun props and everything felt true to the theme.

Welcoming front desk. They had to start us a little late, but they were super apologetic and nice about it. GM was great.

The puzzles were really fun and unique to the setting.

Not good. Not a good an intro video and even in the room, it was somehow worse. Don’t do this room for the story alone. But the actual game is fun.

Medium-Hard. Some real easy puzzles, a few that were difficult. It depends on your group.

Mostly mechanical with a few (really good!) tech elements.

4 max. We did it with 2.

There are stairs. And at least one person has to crawl through a space. Another puzzle just requires a bit of moving around.

Color puzzles, some stairs

The set design was really nice and everything appeared to be in working condition. Since we played the Christmas version, a few decorations were taped over the usual ones, but it did not detract from their function.

The design was nice. The puzzles were fun.

Our GM was nice (Melissa, I think?) and gave us nudges when she saw us stuck and hints when we asked.

I really liked two of the puzzles (one we needed a hint with though...)

The plot was cute and movement between the rooms was easy.

There were quite a few puzzles so more hands and brains is recommended. We had a few puzzles where one player would be confused and another would exclaim, "Oh! I know!"

I think it is actually split. There were quite a few traditional locks but also several tech-y tasks.

We played with a group of six and this was good for our experience level. This was my 18th game (13W - 5L) so I still consider myself a novice. The other players in my group (4 adults, 2 tweens) have similar statistics. You need a minimum of three for one of the tasks.

Our youngest were 8 & 10 years old.

There are stairs. Movement between rooms is necessary as is kneeling. Nothing high energy though.

There are stairs, color puzzles, visual puzzles, etc.

It is in Fashion Valley Mall (with lots of covered parking and a food court)

The mall has ample free covered parking. One lot is directly across from the business. We did three rooms today, so we brought our dog and left her in the car during our games. We really appreciated the covered parking and grassy areas for the dog. The Green trolley also stops withing walking distance of the business (like, 500 ft away?)

Very fun, good flow

Fun environment and props, interesting plot

Staff were all super cool and helpful. Our GM Adam was extremely enthusiastic.

Plot is silly if you think too deeply about it but enjoyable in the moment

Last puzzle was significantly challenging because of the timing aspect

3 minimum for sure, 4 worked well

At least one team member needs to be relatively agile to get through a window. Most people should be able to do it though.

At least one team member needs to be relatively agile to get through a window. Most people should be able to do it though. Also there are a few stairs.

It’s at the mall so there is parking galore, it’s right by the parking lot too so not a far walk through the mall.

Gameplay was overall decent. Some good puzzles my husband and I haven’t seen before and we’ve done almost 50 rooms

Set design ok. It was odd to escape out a window with the item and then still have more to do

There was a broken thing in one of the puzzles that made it virtually impossible to solve. The game master did not help us or acknowledge. We wasted 10 min on something that was just broken until we finally asked for hint. The first hint wasn’t even helpful because it didn’t address the problem of the broken puzzle. Then at the end we had to point out the broken part and the game master was just defensive about it