Sorcerer's Lair

The one thing I really liked about this room was one unique prop with some cool tech. However there’s a fair list of things I didn’t enjoy. I hate it when escape rooms are pitch black with no flashlights. It often seems like a cheap trick to make the room harder and that was definitely the case here, but it wasn’t the only cheap trick. A lot of props in the room had unnecessary frills to make it hard to see or differentiate between things. None of the puzzles were actually very challenging but the execution was difficult because the locks are old, the puzzles broken down, and some of the items hard to maneuver. The ending was very anticlimactic (my group was like, wait that’s it?) Their leaderboard times are quite ridiculous; I can definitely see blasting through this room with ease IF you brought your night vision goggles (or are a vampire.) The immersion is lacking in various ways (what dungeon would be boiling hot?) Finally, the gamemastering was disappointing: when asking questions, we got a lot of “umm let me check” which is not helpful and did not help with the immersion factor. Overall this room was lackluster and I’d save your money to go somewhere else.