Space Mission: Guardian

I definitely agree with the immersion comments from others. The immersion was AH-MAZING! I’ve never been in a room where you literally felt like you were there… in this case a spacecraft and space station. Loved the experience for this reason. The puzzles were lacking for me. It seemed all over the place and hard to decipher what needed to be done. I love solving puzzles, but this room left me kind of frustrated because it was so busy. It started off strong with puzzles, and then became more and more unclear as time went on. Overall, I highly recommend this room for the immersion aspect alone. Definitely worth the experience in that way. The game difficulty is also variable which I liked since I went with my BFF and her family who hasn’t completed an escape room before. Glad we went.

This was not worth the price. The game didn’t flow well. The immersion was fantastic however.

What a unique escape room experience. When in Spokane, Think Tank is the place to go. Their staff is great. Our GM, Shay, was one of the best we’ve had in our over 250 room experience. The game is very high tech. There were times when we had no idea what to do next, but if you’re observant, the answers are there. It’s a challenging room that can be very overwhelming at times, yet we very much enjoyed it. It was our favorite room here. Great lighting, no crawling.

This was the most immersive room that I’ve ever completed. The variability of the puzzles has me wanting to go back and do it all again!

THNK TANK Games are the Mad Scientists of the Spokane/CDA escape rooms. They take big, impressive swings and when they hit, it’s an amazing experience. When they miss, it’s a fascinating failure. Space Mission: Guardian is a wonderfully themed, high tech, story based room with many dazzling, immersive moments but still feels incomplete. The mission is that you are selected to rescue the cure for a space borne pandemic from an orbiting research facility before it’s too late. You must pilot a ship, dock it, find the cure and race back home - all the trappings of an exciting sci-fi action thriller along with theming that wouldn’t be out of place at an amusement park. My issues with the room are small but significant. The theming is exquisite and has so much fine detail that it felt overwhelming and actually made some puzzles seem harder than they are. There is so much to take in, there were times when I found myself just still and dumbfounded, not knowing where to start in any of it. I realize that’s a common observation, but in a story driven game, more clear goals can make the experience make you feel more like a hero. There needs to be some tweaks here and there to fix issues with pacing, streamline some puzzles and maybe some beats to the story, driving the narrative and give the room time to breathe and give players a chance where they are in the narrative. Their Booby Trap room does this well, with a bad guy that taunts, teases and curses your puzzle solving acumen. All in all, Space Mission:Guardian is a fantastic room with ambition to spare.