Insane Asylum

GM was great but they were overwhelmed. They need more staff. So that is more of the owner/management responsibility. GM was great otherwise. However, the room was pretty good. Some new things my bf and I hadn't experienced yet. This room is rated Hard, but I'd say medium. We had five clues and still 10 minutes left on the clock when we escaped. I do recommend but please, whoever is managing this place, hire some more people to help these GM out.

My brain hurts and the clues didn’t make sense most times

Seemed a bit too hard

One of the few escape rooms we were unable to escape from. The puzzles are too cryptic and felt impossible to figure out without hints, which I don’t love. Someone the puzzles in the final room take so long that I don’t see how you’d be able to complete it in time. I feel like an “asylum” set could’ve been a lot cooler too. By far not my favorite room at panIQ.

But experience. First room is a little vague. As with several of their rooms there is what appears to be an easy answer but then match is involved (and in some cases outside knowledge but stuff everyone should know). The rooms in this one are smaller so better for a smaller group. And most puzzles are linear requiring only one or two people at a time. There were two of us in there. It's a mix of visual and physical puzzles and a couple mazes or teamwork challenges. We could have brute forced the final puzzle and saved about 10+ minutes, but we finished with plenty of time left and got to do more challenges.

Fun room, with some spooky theming. There are some uneven difficulty spikes, but overall felt fair with some interesting puzzles.

This game was super cool, lots of puzzles to solve. The start was really difficult and still don’t really understand the first puzzles- but all in all very fun

Insane Asylum is fun if you’re with a group of good friends who are sharing the not-so-good experience with you. There’s three rooms in the space of two, meaning the rooms are very cramped, and the puzzles aren’t really puzzles rather than a bunch of mazes. I guess it’s worth playing, were it not for the fact that there’s so many better ones around. So, make of that what you will, I guess.