Boda Borg Boston Quests

Boda Borg is cooler in concept than in execution. It has some incredible rooms but there were also some extremely tedious ones with tech that didn’t always work. Additionally, we made the mistake of coming on the weekend where it was busy with a lot of kids. I’d recommend coming on a weekday if you can to really maximize the time of solving! However, the rooms that work really work, it pushes you to accept failure and retrying, and just is a very fun way to spend an afternoon.

We knew Boda Borg was an escape room adjacent experience, and that was the case. Really enjoyed our two hours of Questing. Our team of four completed three Quests successfully and tried many of the others. Looking forward to coming back again sometime!

I get the appeal for kids and teenagers, but for us, Boda Borg was like the worst parts of escape rooms - incredibly high ratio of process to a-ha moment, with the added frustration of having to wait in line to try again. Being there Saturday afternoon also meant that the screaming, squealing and banging on doors by the approximately billion young’uns there seriously intervened with the audio puzzles. For adult questers, it’s likely best to go during the week and definitely do the four hours - otherwise standing in lines is the quest you’ll spend the most time doing.

I've been to Boda Borg multiple times and it absolutely never gets old. Boda Borg is every room escapist's dream, it's like escape rooms 2.0 What I think is coolest about Boda Borg is its ability to convey a strong story without actually providing players with any verbal or written narrative beforehand. I also appreciate that Boda Borg incorporates movement-based challenges into many of their rooms, while also using a door color system to notify people of which rooms will be movement-focused (yay for accessibility!) My only complaint about Boda Borg is that they claim to be a space for people of all sizes, when I have brought larger friends with me and they've really struggled to fit in certain spots in many rooms. I'm not saying Boda Borg should change its room designs, but I would love if they could note, similarly to which rooms require movement, which rooms require fitting into small spaces.

I love Boda borg - I’ve been many time, Boda Borg is escape room adjacent but not like a normal escape room. The whole ethos is learning through failing - I’ve spent about 60 hours here and still haven’t seen all the rooms!

Overall a great concept. Some rooms we weren’t sure if it was tech related or us. Hated not having a click but realize it is part of the experience. Overall a great time.

Lots of physical challenges which were fun. The rooms can be frustrating until you start to get a feel for how the game works. Lots of trial and error

In concept, Boda Borg is exceptional: numerous escape room-esque challenges that you choose to do as many times as you want. At its best, Boda Borg offers deeply immersive set design that envelops you in a world and then forces you to think outside the box and communicate effectively. At its worst, it presents you tedious puzzles with unreliable tech that makes you wonder if the failure is performative (yours), mechanical (the tech’s), or conceptual (the designer’s). Overall, Boda Borg quests are very good, but I can’t whole-heartedly give this a heart when quite a few rooms have lazy design and/or non-cooperative tech. Boda Borg does teach teams that (as Yoda once said) “the greatest teacher failure is.” For people who have the patience, mental wherewithal, and physical stamina, Boda Borg is a unique and memorable experience. Is it perfect? No. But isn’t the notion of perfection something that Boda Borg rails against conceptually?

Boda Borg is a highly unique experience, although some facilities have emulated their game structure in some sense. Their quests are like mini escape rooms, with the major difference being the highly physical nature of some of the challenges. While I prefer level99, boda Borg innovated this style of gameplay, and it is worth checking out for at least one visit

This is pretty much an escape room crossed with an obstacle course, and it’s the best thing to exist. It’s the most replayable experience in the escape room world, and like nothing you’ve ever seen. There are more mysteries hidden inside this complex than anything else in the world. For the best experience, your team should be physical enough to climb, crawl, and jump. It’s an amazing experience that you need to book now, and there’s only one reason I’m keeping this review short. In Boda Borg, the less you know going into it, the better.