Boda Borg Boston Quests

I’ve been to boda borg several times over the years and it is always a treat!

It is entirely possible that we visited the place on an unfortunate day but most of the family did not find the experience enjoyable in the least. We focused on about 3 of the easier rooms, and by the time we realized the tech in the rooms was broken (and therefore unsolvable), we were thoroughly frustrated. The concept seems on paper like it'd be a lot of fun so again, it might have just been a bad day to go for us!

Overall concept was neat. Some of the rooms were frustrating and, like others have said, it was unclear where the failure lay as sometimes it was the tech and others just part of the learning process. Staff were not as readily available as we were lead to believe. Don’t go on the weekends or during school breaks!! Groups of young kids rudely knock on doors and run around, despite rules against this (again, no staff presence). Some rooms were very worn out and are in need of cleaning and upkeep. But there was some fun there, for sure. Absolutely not ADA compliant.

This was my first experience 'questing' or anything similar. I went with some friends who weren't comfortable with the physical quests so was unfortunately relegated to the more lightly intensive or mental quests. This still was a delightful experience that enraptured me.

Boda Borg is cooler in concept than in execution. It has some incredible rooms but there were also some extremely tedious ones with tech that didn’t always work. Additionally, we made the mistake of coming on the weekend where it was busy with a lot of kids. I’d recommend coming on a weekday if you can to really maximize the time of solving! However, the rooms that work really work, it pushes you to accept failure and retrying, and just is a very fun way to spend an afternoon.

We knew Boda Borg was an escape room adjacent experience, and that was the case. Really enjoyed our two hours of Questing. Our team of four completed three Quests successfully and tried many of the others. Looking forward to coming back again sometime!

I get the appeal for kids and teenagers, but for us, Boda Borg was like the worst parts of escape rooms - incredibly high ratio of process to a-ha moment, with the added frustration of having to wait in line to try again. Being there Saturday afternoon also meant that the screaming, squealing and banging on doors by the approximately billion young’uns there seriously intervened with the audio puzzles. For adult questers, it’s likely best to go during the week and definitely do the four hours - otherwise standing in lines is the quest you’ll spend the most time doing.

I've been to Boda Borg multiple times and it absolutely never gets old. Boda Borg is every room escapist's dream, it's like escape rooms 2.0 What I think is coolest about Boda Borg is its ability to convey a strong story without actually providing players with any verbal or written narrative beforehand. I also appreciate that Boda Borg incorporates movement-based challenges into many of their rooms, while also using a door color system to notify people of which rooms will be movement-focused (yay for accessibility!) My only complaint about Boda Borg is that they claim to be a space for people of all sizes, when I have brought larger friends with me and they've really struggled to fit in certain spots in many rooms. I'm not saying Boda Borg should change its room designs, but I would love if they could note, similarly to which rooms require movement, which rooms require fitting into small spaces.

I love Boda borg - I’ve been many time, Boda Borg is escape room adjacent but not like a normal escape room. The whole ethos is learning through failing - I’ve spent about 60 hours here and still haven’t seen all the rooms!

Overall a great concept. Some rooms we weren’t sure if it was tech related or us. Hated not having a click but realize it is part of the experience. Overall a great time.