Project Minotaur

Thanks for the scary time!

I can’t believe I finally got to play project Minotaur! I’ve been stalking this room since it’s opening, but unfortunately it was way beyond my budget for many years. Since quest room closed, I was able to go due to the finale sale, but I’m so sorry to all the wonderful game masters, builders, actors and creatives that so clearly poured their hearts and souls into this. Pros: - loved the chasing/rushes - Music/special effects were amazing - Actors were incredible. Both the creature (Robbie what the heck that was terrifying) and Chris (we salute your commitment to the bit but also: ow that must hurt) - So many secret passages. If anything I want more. What a blast. - So unique as a room. Never done one like that. Will be so hard to top but won’t stop looking for something this thrilling bc we loved it. - Perfect blend of scary but not too scary. The creature isn’t horrifying to look at, the GMs weren’t out to get us, we didn’t get yelled at or punched or anything crazy. They really nailed it. Even the scaredy cats in our group had a blast. Cons: - Wish they’d either incorporated more Greek myths or done away with them - they kinda weren’t evenly sprinkled throughout imo and stopped adding to the game after a point but I loved the fates. - The set was super well done but was ultimately just kinda. Apocalyptic ruin. Which was on theme. Just kinda boring visually (I know they reuse the room for other horror escapes tho so it has to be versatile) - They did more story than I thought they would! Wish there had been more of it to solve as we went. More story clues please! I want to help solve the mystery! - The last room - would’ve loved a screen to see the finale/more holes/plexiglass? The whole team couldn’t see what was happening due to the placement. Onto the room review: I will be fully spoiling this one because it is closed and I want a record of it for those that are curious but won’t ever be able to play. My team had a blast but I do think if we’d paid the original price point, I would be harsher in my critique. An experience that’s over 100 dollars has a lot to live up to for the average room goer, and I think it’s reflected in a some of the less favorable reviews on their Morty page. That being said, the amount of work that went into this room is a lot so I’m not sure what the solution would’ve been - paying 2 actors, multiple camera setups + involved high tech puzzles, AND special effects take a lot of work & costs a lot of money. So I get it. There’s not a lot of story for Project Minotaur which I always think is a bummer for escape rooms - if I’m gonna be in a horror movie I want to help solve the plot and I think it would’ve made more sense if we were on a mission to find a missing doctor given the ending - but the majority of horror rooms sadly don’t have a narrative beyond “get outta here” so I knew what to anticipate. They give you jumpsuits, knee pads and a hood for a blindfold and split your group into 2 cells while the intro plays out. You were tourists in Greece who wanted an adventure so you ignore the tour guide and go into an abandoned military base where you get trapped / try to escape (I actually think this was a little convoluted bc there wasn’t a lot of story throughout the maze to play into this but whatever). The room was basically jail cells, a morgue, many hallways and a sacrifice room. They had a sick puzzle as soon as you started with statues of the 3 fates where the team had to work together between the cells to roll an eyeball back and forth to get the right sequence of sound cues. It was pretty confusing esp in the dark and we almost lost the eye more than a few times between the cells but I loved the idea. The Minotaur bursts from the door and tries to attack you but you can fend him off by running back into the cells and holding the doors for dear life. During all of this is so much sound & ominous music, it’s great. There’s more minor puzzles as you escape into an air vent (with the Minotaur right behind you! I didn’t know the actor would follow us as we were CRAWLING my stomach sank to my feet!!!) and then you pop into a caged morgue. It’s here you meet a GM doctor who through charades will steal a shoe / explain that yall need to kill the Minotaur, who will pop back into the room when the Dr leaves as you try to move forward (Eventually the Dr speaks, kinda. This is your hint system). There’s a guillotine puzzle, a morgue escape hatch, and then you finally get into the meat of the room: those damn hallways! We got so lost, it really WAS a maze! It’s just dingy walls but they all look alike. We got to a Medusa head that was screaming (this confused me bc you could fully see her eyes which is like. Her whole thing. I thought for sure there would be a mirror puzzle here but. Nah. Again, whatever I guess). The Minotaur is always around and we kept going back and forth constantly. At one point my friend literally got dragged away by the ankles and we had to go rescue them - I about attacked someone on my team bc we had to go all the way back to the start but then they left the key we’d need to get my friend out of the first cell!!! So then we had to go all the way BACK!!! And do it AGAIN!!! The whole time I’m trying not to soil my jumpsuit bc the creature is going to attack at any second, now you’re telling me you forgot the key and we have to go BACK!? We are NOT surviving this horror movie. EVENTUALLY we got everyone but then we hit the sacrifice room - a chair and machine with skulls that I presume would turn someone into a Minotaur. But of course, the doctor, who is ALSO popping up and jumpscaring us constantly, said we had to go get another power block for the machine which of course meant back into the maze AGAIN. This guy with a PHD is out here literally parkoring up the walls like spiderman (yes he did this multiple times) as I’m praying my knees don’t pop in the silence just from walking! The hallway had the block sitting in the middle of the hall in THE most obvious horror trap and I told my team to be ready to MOVE once I got it - turns out the creature ofc barreled at me immediately and then I turn around and almost stampeded my team bc apparently hauling ass to them meant stand still and watch me grab the thing we need causally as I’m running at them screaming with a guy on stilts gunning for me. We got the sacrifice going, the chair spun around, the Minotaur attacked one last time, and then the Doctor and the Minotaur battled it out - wish we could’ve seen the final scene better but they only gave us 2 holes to watch from so a good chunk of the team missed it which was a bummer. The end of the story is that the Doctor actually had turned himself into the Minotaur and was transforming Dr Jekyll style the whole time! We won and lived to see another room! Overall we loved it. I’m so sad they’re closing. It will be hard to find anything to top this experience. Thank you for such a great night, even the scaredy cats on my team had a blast. And we only got one bruise and a scrape between all 7 of us despite the odds (we’re not the most coordinated). So a win is a win. Thank you Robbie and Chris, and I wish nothing but incredible careers for the escape room team. You gave us a wonderful memory despite the horrors and we really needed it.

So sad this place is closing. This is probably one of my favorite rooms I’ve ever done. Great job!

It is an experience you have to must try! From production to immersion, Thank you Quest Room and the team for the thrill and memories. PJ and Ryan are the greatest!

This room is like a survivor horror game but irl. The version we played did not have too many puzzles, but they were fun and not too easy. The set is really well made. It even has a surprisingly good story. Another room that makes you feel like you are in a movie/videogame. It's overall extremely fun. Wish it comes back somehow and I can do it again.

Ryan and PJ, ty ty, bowing down to you both. A memorable experience!!

I thought that this room was very complicated in terms of set design. I was very impressed and very immersed! Maybe because my friends and I have done a lot of horror escape rooms, we didn’t find this room to be all that frightening. I think if we were newer escape roomees, we probably would’ve been scared shitless. I also think we finished the room quite fast, it’s supposed to be a two hour room, but we finished it in an hour and six minutes! I think based off of the actor’s script, it led us to complete the puzzles very quickly, also the fact that we weren’t as spooked. I still enjoyed this room very much and would recommend! If you want to be more spooked, maybe talk to the game master before the start of the room, I think because of the atmosphere of the room is already spooky, our actor was taking it easy on us and didn’t spook us as much.

This was an interesting experience! Everyone is correct that it's not really a true escape room; it is a thrill experience with puzzles and unlike anything I'd done before. If I'd done this room a few months ago, it would have been a for-sure heart for me, but I recently did a European-style chase/horror escape room that did this SO MUCH better (Cornstalkers), so it knocks Minotaur down a peg for me. We did this room with just the two of us, which I've been told is very unusual. It made things that much tenser because if one of us got "captured", the experience was over. That said, apparently I lock the &^*# in when my very expensive experience is on the line, and while I got adrenaline like no other room had ever given me, I found it actually LESS frightening than many horror rooms where you are meant to stand and experience the fright / jump scare. Here, you actually have to save yourself and by god I was going to do it (and did). The puzzles? WELL. Not great, to be frank. The first room has a mechanic which could literally stop you from completing it if something goes wrong (and it almost did, for us) and we were later told some groups spend 40+ minutes in there (!!) completing the single puzzle (!!!). There were a few others which were just plain done poorly. But you're not really here for the puzzles...you're here for the experience. Get a couple friends and experience it. If you're expecting a great escape room, you'll be disappointed. If you're just looking forward to the very unique experience that is hard to find elsewhere, you'll enjoy it.

I appreciate what they are trying to do with this room and for the most part it is a really exciting, unique escape experience. Very light on puzzles and the ones that do exist are not presented very well. One in particular was a cheap premade puzzle available on Amazon for $20 and could easily have been done a lot better than it was. The majority of the experience was about survival and this was where the game really took off. Lots of physical violence to avoid and a scary presence to stay away from while working through a twisting maze. One really nice story element as well that elevated the ending. Overall, I appreciated what was created here, though I didn’t enjoy it overall as much as I would have liked. The other three members of my group did seem to like it more than I did. It definitely is worth a go if you’re down for the brutal physicality of the experience.