The Attraction

❗️Very concerning experience❗️ (🆗Understandable) We visited Palace Games recently and were instructed by staff to place all personal belongings in a designated basket area before entering the game. The basket was located outside of the game room and remained out of our sight for the entire duration (~2 hours). (⚠️Incident) After the game, we discovered that a wallet valued at $1000+ (including cash and multiple cards such as ID and credit cards) was missing. Based on the noticeable weight difference before and after, we were able to reasonably determine that the item went missing during the game time. (🛑Their Action) We requested assistance immediately and asked to review surveillance footage. Initially, we were told that the footage would need to be “retrieved through a third-party vendor” and that we would be contacted later — however, ❌no one followed up. The following day, after multiple attempts to reach them, we were informed that the ”vendor was unavailable (PTO) ”and the footage could not be accessed at this point. Later, a manager called and stated that there is no recording at all (⁉️), only live monitoring on site. When we asked for confirmation of this and whether we could document the conversation, the call was abruptly ended ❗️Subsequent attempts to follow up have gone unanswered. ❗️Additionally, on the game day, we felt rushed to leave immediately after the game ended, even though our scheduled end time was 4:00 PM and it was only around 3:45 PM at that point. ❗️This made it more difficult to properly check our belongings around the game area. 😡We followed all instructions provided by staff, yet there appears to be no secure storage, no accessible review process, and no clear accountability when something goes wrong. Their responses were inconsistent and changed over time. the incident has NOT yet been addressed at this point. We are sharing this experience for transparency regarding how personal belongings are handled and how incidents are addressed.

This was truly one of the most immersive experiences of my life. The puzzles were fun and engaging, characters were unforgettable, and interactive and immersive elements second to none. Wonderful “room” and experience, delightful throughout.

We loved the immersive experience of this game. We didn’t find it overly challenging but we genuinely enjoyed the immersive atmosphere and experience. Highly recommend doing this game.

Crazy game! Best with larger groups rather than smaller

We loved this game! It was full of plot twists and shocking discoveries, and it incorporated a lot of different puzzles, strategies, and games. I wish I could replay it because I had so much fun.

Visual wise the room was great. The atmosphere was amazing and the story was well integrated and well done. Super techy and has one of the coolest “transitions” I’ve ever seen. The puzzles themselves were easy, and felt more repetitive than challenging. Gm was super nice and showed us a little behind the scenes after we escaped

Like all of the Palace Games, the gameplay is very intelligent. Every puzzle has multiple steps with some layering on top of each other making you think in ways you’ve never thought before. This gameplay here is the most experimental of the Palace Games. All sections are distinctly different from each other, with some parts being abstract and bending reality while other sections being very straightforward but puzzle dense (and some having… barely any puzzles admittedly. I thought all of it was very interesting to play and there was nothing I hated, but a lot of it can come off as vague and/or repetitive (and confusing for some) and there’s not any super standout puzzles. Story wise The Attraction is the opposite of the other games. While the others are extremely light on story, this game has about as much story as possible. The story is extremely overt, which makes it easy to follow, but also makes it seem kind of barebones. But there are some fun twists and story payoff in the second half that makes it come together well. Unfortunately they still have in-person hints here, which are very immersion breaking for this game (but the game makes it mostly unlikely you’ll need them). Unlike the other Palace games, which are pretty bare in set design to match the “1920s World Fair escape room experiment” theme, this one (while bare in moments) goes all out on set design in certain areas, and it’s beautiful. I also wish there was a bit more. Even though it can take up to 2 hours, it wastes a lot of time on some early stuff that could be shorter, and as I said the story picks up very late into it, so I left the game wishing there was more. But after all this analysis, the fact is: this game is amazing. It is a massive experimental marvel in design that really needs to be tried! (Oh yeah also be prepared to look up a lot, do neck stretches or something or you’ll be in minor pain) Palace Games Ranking: 1. Edison (true immersion through puzzles) 2. Attraction (true immersion through… immersion) 3. Roosevelt (Houdini but more of it) 4. Houdini (still one of my favorite games)

The Attraction is not really an Escape Room and more of an experience. There was major hype going into this experience from the reviews I read and I tried to go into it level-headed. Well, I was really let down by this experience. First room was fine and the puzzle was an easy concept to grasp, even though we struggled for a bit. Regardless, moving into the spaceship we were having a good time. The spaceship was something different, although we have seen this concept before. The 2nd main room (1st planet you visit) was difficult for us to understand with the 1st set of puzzles. It seemed like it may have been malfunctioning as it was extremely repetitive, it took us a long time, and we became extremely frustrated because it seemed like we kept doing the same thing over-and-over. I know The Palace Games tries to be extremely immersive with no GM interaction, but it made it frustrating that we could not get a nudge, as we could not move forward and it felt like it took forever to get to the next set of puzzles in this 1st planet room. This repetitive, possibly malfunctioning room is what killed the experience for us. The Library was a cool room and almost saved this experience for us as it did bring some fun and energy, but it was still nothing spectacular. There was a cool reveal in this room and the height of the ceiling was impressive. As we entered the last room, our group was over this experience and we flew through the last room in a few minutes. The GM knew that half of our party “checked-out” since the 1st planet room and either the room was very easy or the GM made it easier for us so we would just be done. We finished with 15 mins on the clock so not sure. This last room did have some cool decor though in the forest-like setting. Overall, we were disappointed with game play and sets. Besides the library room, sets and games/puzzles were nothing special, with no really cool reveals, which contradicted some reviews. Spaceship was kind of cool but repetitive. The quality of the room sets and the tech aspect was impressive, but it seemed to be overused at times, and possibly malfunctioned in the 1st planet room. Sorry to say that The Attraction was not worth the price of admission, even if you brought 8 people (please note that bringing more than 4-5 would be too many though). Paying over $400 for any type of experience should give you a really fun and special experience…this gave us neither. I really wanted to like The Attraction and looked forward to doing this room for months in advance, but it did not give us much fun and did not impress us as much as many of the 60 to Escape (in IL and WI) and Exit Games (FL) rooms did. I have done almost 40 rooms, so I think my opinion does have some credibility, so please know that this room may not be for you. I really wish we would have done The Edison rather than The Attraction as The Edison is more of a traditional ER, which we probably would have enjoyed more.