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The Marlowe Hotel

The Marlowe Hotel

The Cipher Room Newtown Location

  • Escape room
  • IRL
This was one of the best rooms we‘ve ever done. Everything in black and white, beautiful flow of puzzles, different difficulties of puzzles present throughout the room, great theme and everything related to the theme, so good! Also very many puzzles! Probably better done with a few more people, we did it with 2ppl and made it out with like 10 seconds left :D and that was with breezing through the last few puzzles all within the last 2 minutes :D
Extraction

Extraction

The Curium Experience

  • Escape room
  • IRL
Beautiful room, with beautiful design and superb quality mechanics, electronics and ideas. Puzzles are all within theme and from the getgo till the last minute you are thrown into that alternative universe and the story and everything fits so well. Room is really immersive and big fun. Did it with 2 people and time is tight, but all manageable, if said 2 people are a bit more experienced with Escape Rooms and where to look. Definitely worth its Tepeca awards and Nominations, this room is really one of the best in Melbourne. Try it out!
La Rébellion

La Rébellion

The Cipher Room St Peters Location

  • Escape room
  • IRL
A wooonderful room, really lasting experience, so good! Set design is a backyard, french setting. Story is beautifuly interwoven into all the puzzles and clues and the whole set design. Decoration and elements are really well done and astounding what you can do with an escape room. Puzzles are more on the harder side, although it is more the finding of the clues and actually making the connection, that makes them hard; than actually the puzzles and solving them, themselves. Did the room with 2 people and a good amount of time left, even with us doing all puzzles together. Room is multilinear for some parts, so could also well work at multiple puzzles at the same time. This room is mainly so good for its superb set design, good story, good puzzle flow and nice mechanical/technical side to the puzzles and set. Really worth doing this room!!
Mr Pepper’s Toy Shop

Mr Pepper’s Toy Shop

The Cipher Room St Peters Location

  • Escape room
  • IRL
A wonderful room, really immersive, superb set design, nice gamemaster, unique puzzles and really good flow of those, nice special effects and mechanical/technical side to the puzzles. With Cipher Room you really can‘t go wrong. We usually don‘t like doing scary rooms but still though wanted to do this one; and what a treat it was!! Definitely not too scary, jump scares are scarcely spread out over the whole room, and are easy on your heart ;D What makes this room so good is the story you follow along, the perfect decoration, the good flow of the puzzles and definitely the ending :) there‘s like a finale and it is really good ;) keep your eyes open, it‘s really worth it!!
Mayhem Manor

Mayhem Manor

Containaphobia

  • Escape room
  • IRL
Ooooh what a room! Easily one of the best we‘ve ever done!!! Let‘s see: -brilliant set design and setting, atmosphere held high throughout the entire game -whole room brilliantly put together, everything from sounds and music and visuals and props and puzzles fits the theme -brilliant techy puzzles and sensors and electronically operated puzzles etc, never seen anything like this before. All seemingly put together by the sole owner and operator and then again it feels like a big budget production. Way better than many of the other, more generic Escape rooms we‘ve done -friendly, passionate game master -quite scary, some good jump scares got us good -very immersive, from the moment you get there (and maybe even before that) -a lot of pieces and clues to solve the puzzles, but well hidden and not obvious -room definitely more suitable for more advanced and experienced players, especially when only playing with 2 people like we did - it‘s a lot of puzzles and thus a tight schedule -soooo much attention to detail. The room has so much attention to detail! And YOU need to put a lot of attention to the details to solve the room. So, ye, all in all: this room really is a special room and if you are into more scary, dark and spooky rooms, this definitely is a horrormovie come to life to some degree. An outstanding production in every aspect!!!
The Artefact

The Artefact

Next Level Escape

  • Escape room
  • IRL
Love love love this room! Puzzles are just the right amount of challenging, some nice novel ideas, flows really well! Would probably classify more hard than medium cuz some puzzles were really quite hard, especially with 2 people! Love the interaction with the GM taking the role of the sassy AI computer! Set design and atmosphere also well done. Some of the mechanics and technical stuff you have to do also very nice and challenging! In the end also very rewarding! Love how the finale was not abrupt but you can see it coming and you work your way through the stages connecting more and more clues and making the finale come true! Loved it!
The Abandoned Carnival

The Abandoned Carnival

Padlockd Escape Rooms

  • Escape room
  • IRL
Really fun room, loved the theme and design and really felt like a carnival! Also some unique puzzles and challenges! Most puzzles pretty easy however. Really immersive and you really feel like you‘re at a fair or carnival and do all the games and fun there! One machine is a bit fiddly to be honest. We had the right code from the beginning on and tried putting it in many times. Telling the GM we where just told to try, what we already tried for the past 10 minutes. I think eventually the next door was just opened up manually for us because no way the 25th time putting in the code on the machine was done any different than all the others before :D Also felt like there was quite a lot of wasted space in this room! Maybe room for a few more little puzzles and challenges to fill the space and theme?:) Still though, a very nice room!
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