One of the strangest escape room experiences I've had.. We signed up as a party of 6 for the attic room. Overview of the rules and room backstory were exceedingly brief, ~1 min and given by our game master Connor. The puzzles were disjointed and a bit random, with almost all of them involving opening locks.

Around 15 min in, the gamemaster says something over the intercom but no one hears him clearly because we were all talking. We asked him to repeat what he said, waved hands at the camera.. no response. It was at that point I realized they never gave us a walkie talkie to communicate despite signs and other reviews mentioning them. Maybe that wasn't a feature for this room? We just carried on and assumed it was a time warning, despite no other time warnings or communication from the game master for the remainder of the game.

Our group was later stumped on 2 of the clues, and had already used the hints outside the door. We waved our hands at the camera, called out for a hint, even walked out of the room to see if anyone could help us... no one was there. Alright, maybe help isn't allowed for this room? A bit strange since every escape room I've been to allows players to ask for additional help. After a while of brute forcing, it started to seem like a lot more than 60 minutes had elapsed, but there was no way to tell since we didn't get any more time warnings. It was as if the game master stopped viewing our game and forgot we were there.

Then suddenly he opens the door and says times up, there's no time to go over the answers. No explanation why, he snaps a picture of us, says goodnight, and then ducks away. We look at our phones and it's 12 min over the end time. I'm not sure why they ended us late given we arrived 15-20 min early. Part of me feels like he forgot about us and maybe forgot to give us walkie talkies too? Either way it left us feeling unsatisfied, like we were bumbling around for an hour for no reason, and then told to leave without any real resolution of the game. It was such a strange experience and definitely not worth the money. We also suspected that some of the clues (ie the tile puzzle) were not arranged correctly, but we could be wrong.. who knows though, they never gave us the answers.