L'Île perdue de la Reine Vaudou [The Lost Island of the Voodoo Queen]

A really fun game with beautiful set and amazing theming throughout. The most ‘in world’ element was the hint system was GENIUS. I have never left a game thinking about the hint system before, so that was a change. We played as a 5 and I would recommend a smaller group for this game. Overall a solid experience!

Potentially some of my favorite puzzles we did at Escaparium. The set was super cool and even the puzzles were very on theme. The actor/gm definitely did their job in getting us hyped up for this room. But I do wish their speakers for the GM were louder. I struggled to hear them multiple times. Also, the motors for one of the doors was really slow and definitely killed the vibe a little. But aside from that I thoroughly enjoyed the puzzles I did. Extremely piratey. I’d definitely suggest this room for families with tweens.

Super fun! We had a brilliant GM who played his character expertly. Puzzles were all thematic and linked well with the story. Game starts linear but becomes nonlinear in the second half Not difficult at all so should appeal to all

On a adoré l’expérience hyper immersive et l’animation, mais une chance que l’aide était présente toute au long ! C’est pas un expert pour rien ! 😅🏴‍☠️🔮⚓️💀

Excellent jeu, super décor et très bonne immersion

Good combo of linear and non linear sections of game play. Cool effects and set with creative interactions with it.

I loved the set and theme of Lost Island of the Voodoo Queen - one of my favorite childhood games was Monkey Island, and I got strong vibes of that in this game. Puzzles were pretty good as well; things made sense and flowed well. Like some other games at Escaparium, my main problem with the game was audio. Some dialog (generally lines coming from above) was very hard for me to make out clearly, which got in the way of enjoying the game. Fortunately, it turned out to be more for flavor and less for critical information, so it wasn't a huge deal, but everything else about the game was so good that this stuck out to me.

Lost Island of the Voodoo Queen absolutely blew us away; we truly felt like the main characters of an adventure movie. As of writing this review, this is absolutely the best escape room I've ever played in my life. The opening sequence did a beautiful job setting the story, the set was mind-bloggling from start to finish, and the lighting choices made the space genuinely feel more like an outdoor environment than a room. Additionally, the GM was probably the best we've ever had. He was an amazing actor, completely focused on our group, never broke character, kept us progressing through the story without making us feel like we were getting hints, and most importantly kept up great banter with us throughout the game. The special effects also blew us away, and were both surprising and realistic. This was one of those games where I wasn't thinking about any sort of race against the clock, I was simply immersed in our adventure. This game is a must-play and absolutely worth traveling for. David's 2020 review on Room Escape Artist still holds up to this day, the only part we disagreed with was the negative about too many breakaway objects, which Escaparium seems to have since fixed. In our playthrough 5yrs after REA's review, we were only able to pick up things that we were genuinely meant to work with.

Spectacular set. Good puzzles. Hilarious acting.