Reason Future Tech Escape Rooms — Local services in San Francisco

The Reactor escape room at REASON in SF was an awesome experience!! It was the second escape room I have done and it was every bit as exciting as the first time I stepped foot in an escape room.

Unlike the previous escape room I had taken part in The Reactor just throws you into the action. They only information given is that you have 80 minutes to prevent the reactor from melting down. The Reactor had many special elements that I was very surprised to see in an escape room. Talking with the designers after we finished the escape room, they expressed their desire to take very new technologies you read about on tech blogs and make it a part of the escape room experience. They definitely succeed, as I found myself interacting with technologies that I was excited about, but never had the chance to try for myself.

The designers nailed the ambiance of the room and I found that at difference points during the progression of the room I could see the changes in lighting and music that ratchet up the tension as we got closer to our goal of escape.

Overall the experience was amazing and I wouldn't hesitate to make an activity out of it with friends or a team building experience with work. Reason has designed an escape room that in seconds breaks down barriers and gets you excited to work together towards a common goal, all the while experiencing puzzles and technologies that you...

What do you get when you have an escape room with 20 highly intelligent people, many of whom do not know each other?

Escaping by the skin of your teeth! 😂

Let’s get to the take aways from this team-building adventure that I was fortunate to be a guest for:

1. Lead and follow - it’s a great setting to practice both of these and especially the one you need to work on!

2. Communicate, communicate, communicate - less is more in this experience and you need to be clear in your communication

3. Diversity makes for a phenomenal experience - it’s incredible to be amidst such creative thinkers for solving different puzzles and bringing different perspectives to the table!

4. Divide and conquer - small teams are better to be broken up into at points and allows for you to get to know some of the other people a bit more!

5. Use your strengths and own your weaknesses - you can’t be great at every puzzle in the room nor are you expected to be!

6. Have fun - at the end of the day, this is an awesome opportunity for many people that know and don’t know each other to come together and enjoy an common hobby or experience…this is 100% a health-related opportunity!

10/10 recommend Reason Future Tech out in the Bay Area if you are looking for a team-building escape room experience!

We played “Glitch” by the way if anyone...

I organized a 4 hours long workshop for my remote team and I was looking for a fun activity to close the intense morning activity. I went to a physical escape room at Reason in the past and I had a blast, so I was curious to try their virtual offer. It was amazing. 16 people in my team and everyone absolutely loved it and asked if we could do the next one. Moonshot is a great escape room activity. Being limited to a virtual environment has some limitations over a physical escape room such as the experience being very linear and missing the physical exploration side but they made up for this shortcoming exceedingly well by having a great variety of puzzles that include using the web (and discovering a lot of cool websites) or calling real phone numbers. Definitively the team at Reason took the limitation of a virtual environment and built them in a strength, all packaged in a very high-production value experience that everyone could enjoy. On top of that, they have been great at accommodating an early start time to allow my off-shore team to join. What else I could say? 5 star...