C.H.E Center — Attraction in Bellevue

This is a hard one for me since I think this place could be amazing, and it has all the right pieces for it to be. The interactive games themselves are fantastic, but there are glaring issues with the place as a whole that I don’t see many others talking about in the reviews. Right now as it stands; this is more of a one and done event rather than a place I would go to consistently which is a shame.

Pros: Very fun and as advertised games Welcoming staff Really clean Wide variety of game types

Cons: While there are many cons, most of them are extremely fixable and small, but they all add up to sour the experience.

The tutorial: we were required to do a tutorial where a staff member took us to each room to try one game (of which there are several games in each room). While this was nice to see all the types of games, it ate a third of our reservation time which felt like we were cheated out of some time.

The pricing/time aspect. As of this review, the pricing was near 40 bucks a person after tax for an hour which is certainly reasonable for such a unique experience in Seattle. However, the way it was timed felt odd, especially when comparing similar arcades as this one to ones in nyc and other locations. The problem was every person in our 7 person party had to scan into each room, and we had to redo that each time we failed a game which wasted a lot of time, especially since some of the machines weren’t registering our names upon first try. I imagine we wasted a good 10 minutes this way which was already cut a bit short by the tutorial in the first place.

The description of certain games were not well explained. This could be user error, but one of the games, I believe was called “[something] dash” took us just several tries to figure out how to play it which is frustrating since after when figured it out, it was our favorite.

Lack of description of games before entering the establishment. As of this review, the website is not fully functional, and as new-comers and potentially repeat customers, this felt extremely bad. The reason being: we came in with a group of 7, but half the rooms are designed with 4/5 players in mind. Nowhere on the website was this conveyed to my knowledge. We ended up splitting up into two smaller groups which was fine, but it would have been nice to have known that beforehand.

Potential fixes: Just make the tutorial time not eat into the reservation time.

I’ve seen other similar arcades just have the time only tick down upon signing into a game room when we are actively playing instead of what it currently is (a constant timer).

Maybe include a visual to describe the game and/or revamp the descriptions.

Finish the website to include descriptions of the games, and make clear how many players can play each game. As it stands right now, you can currently have 15 people signed up for a reservation, but realistically, they have to be split up into groups of 4/5. There are also games that are technically large group games (like 8 people), but they don’t work (in my opinion) since there are only 5 lives per game and with a big group it’s hard to tell who messed up and it’s easy to instantly lose.

Conclusion: I want to love this place, but there is too many little annoying things about it that stop me from coming back. This is a newer establishment, so I hope to return in the future to see improvements. This has a lot of potential and if the issues are worked out, this could...

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