We were a family of 5 where only really 3 of us were participating (My brother, his GF and myself), his kid (10) and my mom were really just there for being part of the team hehe.
Anyways, I've done 23 rooms atm, most of which are highly ranked by ER enthusiasts are the top ones to do in New York, Las Vegas, California and Louisiana and I can say that The Cabin is def one of the rooms I would recommend to new players. The reason for this is that it has fairy easy puzzles in an almost linear path and most of them are pretty straight forward, plus the room is really fun to do due to the level of detail put into it and the props/effects used.
Now, this causes an issue for experienced players... it ends up being a bit short. We managed to complete it in about 40 mins and we weren't really rushing through, plus, a prop did not work and just that took about 3-5 minutes off our time. The top 3 scores for the room were also just below or around the 30 minute mark so that kind of indicates what I'm saying. Ok so being an enthusiast I understand why this happens and how you just can't create a room that is going to take around the same avg time for newbies and veterans so I'm not saying its a bad thing, I actually recommend you give it a try but I wish I would have been warned about this before hand, especially since I asked via facebook and talked to a rep about which room he'd recommend and I mentioned what I was looking for and that I was an enthusiast.
Apart from that little detail, it was really fun and we felt that they actually had various opportunities to make it even better by adding a little more scares or tension at certain points of the game. Actually, one of the ways they can do this is making the bonus puzzle harder and/or longer (more steps). That would be a good way to cater to both beginners and experts who would obviously have the time to continue and dig deeper into the story/adventure.
I would also like to mention that I knew this was not thier hardest room (they have one which is harder) but I think I would rate this one just a little lower that what it is right now, 3/5 instead of 4/5.
Hope this is helpful to all of those looking for a great...
Read moreI’ve been three times now with my family. We enjoyed the rooms. They are very detailed and it is definitely a full hour of fun. The first two times we went we had a really great greeting us with smiles and, they understood my situation where I have a nonverbal disabled three-year-old who accompanies me wherever I go, and she uses an iPad tablet with a program to communicate because she does not talk . They make you lock up all of your devices so that you cannot record and the first two times that we went the staff were very understanding about my daughters disability and kindly allowed us to have her tablet in there so that she could communicate with us. This last time that we went, I was bringing family from out of town to check it out because I kept raving about how cool this place was and how great and accommodating they always were. And I must say, I was highly disappointed in the staff that we interacted with on this third time. The girl who greeted us this past, Sunday was very rude and short with us never once smiled, and she would not allow me to bring my daughters iPad, in even after I explained that that is her device for communication since she is nonverbal and disabled. I did not really get to enjoy my hour there because my daughter was literally freaking out that she did not have her device with her for the hour and was screaming most of the time. When our hour was up, we did not get the usual offer to take a picture outside of our escape room or anything. The girl just ignored us and we walked out. She was very rude, and it kind of made me not want to go back there to try out the rest of the rooms as we planned. The people I brought from out of town did not enjoy it. So other than one bad employee who needs a little lesson in a customer service, this is a...
Read moreVery disappointed in this experience. The game masters are very hands off. They instruct you to leave any doors you find open so they’ll know what you’ve found if you ask for a clue. They’ll also flat out ask you—okay so what all have you found so far? Have you found this or that. They also told us if anything in the room didn’t work to leave and come find them to let them know. (Shouldn’t you be monitoring us???) Towards the end we thought we were running out of time so we asked for a bunch of clues back to back—it would have been nice if one of them had said “hey you still have 15 mins—not the 4 mins you thought u had”. So it’d have been nice to have a countdown timer that was visible in each room. At the conclusion—there was no commentary regarding our progress, stats or comparisons on how other people did, or photo opportunities. Just “have a good night”. We did the Cabin room and it was rated 3/5 for difficulty. One complaint I had was that you could unlock a cabinet with a clue and then learn later on that the cabinet actually held 2 clues because once you removed the first clue there was a trap door hiding a second clue. Seems kind of lazy to me. Why doesn’t each clue have its own area. (That may be part of the difficulty rating—but it was new for me.) Overall the room was fun and challenging but having disengaged game masters made the entire experience suck. Would...
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