The Crypt

The Crypt blew me away. It is without a doubt the best room I have done (38 rooms). Scouring Reddit for "Best Escape Rooms in 'X City' " when visiting new places is my golden ticket to the best spots. Lately it has become overwhelming to try and do the research myself, as there are SO MANY places popping up with varying levels of effort, ingenuity, and well-crafted rooms. The Crypt was highly recommended and Escape Hour Austin equally so. I'm not usually one for creepy themes, but my partner has always mentioned how doing a few creepy ones every once in a while would be fun (she is a horror movie fan, I am absolutely not). This one seemed interesting enough as a theme that I figured it may be more Indiana Jones than just straight creepy. Happily, I was right, though it had some very "unsettling" moments for sure. To start, there was a LOT to do in this room. When we finished at 1:09:22 I figured we had failed, but in fact this room has a 1:10:00 time limit. Puzzles had a HUGE variety, some physical (crawling, climbing) some interface interaction, some unique puzzles and "hidden-in-plain-sight" puzzles/answers that were hidden well enough that it took us a bit to figure out, a compliment to the theming here. This room is HARD both in time management and in puzzle difficulty in places, you'll really be stretched thin at 2 people. Only 1 puzzle really gave us a hard time in terms of not adequately hinting at/explaining necessarily the pieces required out of a collection of options, given we were struggling we were given a hint/nudge here, and without it I'm sure we would have kept spinning our wheels. The puzzle itself was fine, but think it could have been more clear in the wording. Speaking of the hint system, this was definitely one of the best implementations. I won't spoil what it entails, but it is certainly worth doing this room just for the unique experience it gave us in this aspect, let alone the rest of the amazing experience. We did the room with 2 people, however it would certainly help to have at least 1-2 more. 6 or more I think would feel crowded, there are a lot of small spaces and the there is a general sense of linearity here. Most if not all puzzles felt very well themed and cohesive, only one really comes to mind that may not have been, but can be waved away relatively easily. Highly highly recommend you do this room, I'll be thinking about it for a long time!

Easily the best room I’ve done. So well decorated and designed. Loved how everything looked and felt… at times I did feel some puzzles were a bit confusing or didn’t really flow with others. Bear in mind, we tried it with 2 people. I can definitely see why you’d need 3 people minimum. But anymore more than 4 feels like it would be too crowded. Also… not a spoiler ** fair warning** there’s a good amount of crawling and climbing. Just a heads up for anyone with sore/weak knees lol

Our group loved this room. It’s such an enjoyable experience and has good puzzle flow. Great use of space and the immersion was fantastic.

This game was so good! Definitely need to be prepared to crawl into a few spots and climb around but by far one the most interesting and well designed rooms I’ve seen!

One of the coolest escape rooms I've ever played! Make sure you have at least one brave player willing to crawl around.

More puzzles around every corner and behind every door. This game is so well designed

The BEST escape room I have ever done. TONS of puzzles and interactive elements and not a dull moment. This room is a must if you’re in the area.

The production on this room is on par with one of the national escape room companies. Really great. Puzzle design was good, and the components and atmosphere was great. It's a large room with lots to discover. I'm used to doing rooms with just 2, and this one was too big for us. Our only failure to escape. But they offer a 50% discount on replays, so we went back to experience the last part of the room. I'd highly recommend a team of at least 4 for this one, even if you're used to doing rooms with 2.

Well decorated room, great mix of puzzle/lock types, very immersive and structure. Highly recommend if you visit Austin as a “must do” imo.