ESCAPE Modesto — Attraction in Modesto

We've done four escape rooms as a group, two in Sacramento and two at ESCAPE Modesto. We did the King Tut's Treasure and CSI:Modesto rooms on separate days in December 2017.

Escape Rooms are a blast, great fun for friends, family, and team building. We did one Escape as a Christmas gift to family and friends. Everyone had a great time and are ready to try another Escape Room soon.

Pros: The rooms are themed and decorated well. Especially the King Tut room with the Egyptian theme. It contains a sarcophagus, mummy, obelisk and other props.

The staff is friendly and helpful. They will provide hints during the escape if desired. They are there to help and do a good job of making sure the group is having a good time and does not get stuck on one problem.

Cons and Suggestions for Improvement: Red Herrings. Both rooms contained a few red herrings with puzzles and clues intended to keep players occupied and provide props but did not further the escape or provide useful information. In my reading up on escape rooms it is not typical to include red herrings.

A majority of the puzzles in both rooms revolved around math and numbers. It got a little monotonous by the end of the second room in comparison to others we have done. We have done other rooms that included more abstract problem solving including colors, smells, musical notes, etc. Would love to see future rooms incorporate a wider variety of puzzles.

The number of puzzles to be solved at a given time was usually limited to just a few. With up to 10 people allowed in each escape it would be nice to have more problems to work on simultaneously.

There was no scoring system to rank how you did overall if you escape (we escaped both rooms with just under 6 minutes remaining). The rooms we did in Sacramento have score boards for monthly and all-time best room completions with results limited to teams taking 3 hints or less. This would be a nice addition to Escape Modesto.

You need to wait outside for a staff member to let you inside before your designated time. While not a major deterrent, it would be nice if there was an indoor waiting area.

Overall we had a blast doing the King Tut room and decided to come back and try CSI. I would recommend the King Tut room for...

It's Friday, date night, my girlfriend and I were debating on what to do, and we came across Escape Modesto on Yelp. We wanted to to do something we hadn't done before. We got on the website and it was very user friendly, and we were able to book our tickets immediately. There were no other participants for the time we picked so the owner contacted us and accommodated us to join a group. When we arrived, the staff was friendly, wonderful, and informative about the Escape Modesto rules and experience. The Jail Break Room was challenging and encouraged our group of ten to work together as a team to try to break the code. The room was very well designed and made you feel as if you were in a real jail cell and booking area. We would rate this place a 10 if we could, and we can't wait to go back and try to escape the...

Was visiting from Houston and decided to try Escape Modesto. Staff was excellent, friendly, enthusiastic and only as helpful as we wanted. Was pleasantly surprised at the puzzle designs. Most were challenging but not impossible. Did 2 rooms in 2 days. Had a very good time. Got paired up with smaller groups which does impact game play a bit. Would recommend assembling enough people to make your own group to fill the room. The only reason I cannot give 5 stars is because of difficulty of a couple math problems in the Tut room and I am used to rooms with multiple immersive rooms connected together but only accessible once you complete some puzzles and then items between rooms begin to come together. Overall this is a good, fun group experience which will challenge your wits...