Dream

After 36 escape rooms this year alone, it takes a lot to surprise our group — and Dream absolutely did. This is an easy S-tier room for us and currently sits at #7 out of the 36 rooms we’ve played this year. The concept is already fun and unique, but the real standout is the imagination behind the design. Every time a new space opened up, there was another “okay WAIT, this is so cool” moment. The room constantly evolves in creative ways, and the progression through the space felt incredibly satisfying. What Dream does really well is balance. The gameplay flow was smooth and mostly linear without ever feeling restrictive, and the puzzle variety was excellent. There were big theatrical moments mixed with smaller “aha!” solves, and even the way keys/mechanisms were incorporated felt fresh. One section even allowed two different paths to reach the same outcome, which was such a cool touch for teamwork. This room isn’t super high-tech, but it genuinely doesn’t need to be. The immersion comes from strong design, creativity, and great pacing rather than flashy effects. We played with 3 people, escaped with 25 minutes left, and used 2 hints. I’d rate the difficulty around a 7/10 — probably best for medium-to-experienced players. Overall, Dream feels like a room made by people who really understand what makes escape rooms fun: creative, well-paced, surprising, and consistently engaging from start to finish. Highly recommend.

Dream 10/10 This room was wild!!! Be ready to move around and work as a team! Rooms start easy but as you move along into his dream it’s gets harder. If you love video games you will love this, you don’t need to love video games to understand what is happening. Escape Artist have some good escapes rooms but this one is my favorite so far. And yes you need more than 3 people because of the puzzle game

This was one of my favorite rooms of the Escape Artists two locations but there were some frustrating parts that reminded me of the franchises overall theme of tedium. I also think this room needs some TLC because it’s looking pretty worn.

Just wow This was a lovely fever dream of a room The immersion, the attention to detail, the stark variety of tasks and experiences and the pull-forward/back elements from room-to-room was epic Just a very fun, immersive room that will have you smiling based on what you find and are tasked to do. Good puzzle flow, some unexpected elements in each room and just hard to capture elements here without spoiling so I’ll just say, go play it Room is perfect for 3 but can easily fit 4 adult sized humans Tidbits: Location is in a great spot for nightlife and shopping Parking can be tough (park at Publix) Staff is amazing; some wonderful folks here All three rooms (or two if you are reading after Ninja leaves) are amazing

There are a good amount of puzzles to work through in this room. I am not sure I totally got the story in the room. My biggest issue with the room is having to crawl and climb back and forth to do puzzles which can be tough for us older folk. I enjoyed the different rooms and styles of the rooms it really kept it interesting.

We wanted to LOVE this game, but only ended up "liking" it, for several reasons I will go over in my ratings.

An ambitious concept for a game, which resulted in both surprising moments and some bumps along the way. The story is completely unique and creatively brought to life in an escape room setting, but certain moments left us scratching our heads a bit. We were rewarded with a large amount of puzzling, one particularly unique and memorable physical challenge, and completely distinct environments within the game, but a few adjustments to the storyline and pacing of the puzzles could make the experience more cohesive.

Fun video game themed room with an abundance of well-varied puzzles. I felt like each room was a different video game style which was pretty cool. There was one room that will really test your physical abilities. Make sure you stop for a second and read the information in the room before diving headfirst into it, because there is a fail condition for the puzzle you are supposed to solve (don’t worry if you fail there’s a different puzzle, but the 1st one is way cooler). I think 3 people is the perfect amount for this room. You could do it with 2 as well. This room isn’t a must play but I strongly recommend it.

We very much liked the game. The details in each section contributed to the overall experience. Only thing my group had an issue with was the lighting in certain parts made it difficult to see the numbers on the locks.

Another fantastic room by the company. Very well themed with lots of puzzles. None of the rooms themselves in the experience are big so a group over 4 might be squeezing or coming in and out of rooms to see everything.