Toy Shop: Stanley's Soul Shop

Once more, Unity room: puzzles have no relation to the theme, TONS of distractions (which is fine if the puzzles themselves were actually relative to the theme/story), the idea itself and honestly the atmosphere was basic but I appreciated the idea of the whole room. The game master had an attitude with us and some of the puzzles were not working properly. I really want to like their escape rooms but the rooms are usually moderately immersive and they seem to just have puzzles to have puzzles…

This room was not one of my favorites. I feel bad for leaving a negative review but I walked out of there saying we will not be going back. We have played all of the rooms at Unity Escape and though they aren’t the best they are ok and crossed off the list. This one however is just not good. It’s a very basic setup with kids toys and a couple items that were broken and not working correctly. Really there was no continuity or flow and caused us to just want to leave about halfway through. I’ve never had that feeling even on some rooms that I was beta testing. This needs a drastic overhaul from a design and storyline standpoint. Just makes zero sense and has puzzles just to have puzzles.

The game master was new. Like we could tell that it was probably his first or second day. He was nice, but he didn’t make sure that the locks and mechanical components in the room were properly working. He had to come in and interrupt our game play twice to resolve some a mechanical issue and to give us a missing puzzle piece. It was a horrible experience!