Back to the Future: OUTATIME

It was okay, for experienced players, we didn’t have to get pushed through, the puzzles felt like you were meant to go without break.

I liked the theming quite a bit. I would recommend to most people but especially to first timers and people who like the movie franchise.

I really loved this game. While yes this isn’t the traditional kind of escape room where you move room to room. Each room has its own series of puzzles in which you can solve. If you’re unable to solve them you’re pushed to the next room when you run out of time. Most likely because it’s located in CityWalk and they’re trying to cater to more guests, so when you advance to the next room there’s a group behind you. If you finish your room early but the group ahead of you hasn’t finished their puzzles in the next room and their time isn’t up yet, you might be waiting for a while. During my experience we always had time left over or moved on immediately after finishing the puzzles. This is where their score mechanic comes into play rather than time you escaped with. My group and I were the first to get a 15/15 or 14/14, something like that. This is a true love letter to the movies. If you loved the Back to The Future trilogy like me, you’ll love this escape game.

If you are looking to play an escape room DO NOT play this game. The puzzles were decent but we were pushed through the room and not given any time to actually think. This is by far one of my worst escape experiences, the only good thing were the sets. Also this room was expensive, definitely not worth the money.

Different than other escape rooms as you will be pushed forward to a new room even if you haven’t solved the one you are in. Recommend the private experience because of that. You need to be quick and familiar with your fellow puzzle solvers. Theming is wonderful. Zero replay here even though we only did 12 of 15 puzzles.

We much preferred this game to the Jurassic Park one. Very detailed sets, and a variety of puzzles. I don’t love this format, but escape room fans will probably find this one more satisfying of the 2.

Overall, the experience is great. It depends a lot on who ends up in your group if you have a non-private game, but we had a generally good time. We found at times the audio was overpowering other features of the game and keeping our team from effectively communicating, which became frustrating. There is a sense at times of being “pushed through” certain puzzles, but other than that we had a great time playing and the staff is fantastic. If you play, definitely DON’T go in with the same expectations of a normal escape room though!!

The room was very well designed and the story was excellent but it was not your typical escape room in that some of the puzzles were very hard to solve but the game pushes forward even if you can’t solve the puzzle to leave one of the rooms after a certain amount of time. I highly recommend this Escape room for anyone that is a fan of back to the future.

Just want to say the staff and everyone here is so lovely. Unfortunately this room just wasn’t working for us. Puzzles weren’t working properly. Tech issues!!! Cute set but just not fully functional. I think this room just needs to work on their tech and make sure audio and videos aren’t the whole experience. There was more time for audio/video than game time.

My goodness, Universal. Way to take a brilliant idea and majorly fail at it. I really hope they listen to feedback and tweak this experience because it has potential. Pros: Beautiful rooms. Cool artifacts. Decent videos that play along for decent storytelling. Cons: Not possible to “escape” as you’re pushed through like it’s a line for a ride. Not enough time to take in the cool atmosphere. Started 45 mins late. Tech issues resulting in failure to complete puzzle. Repetitive puzzles making it feel poorly thought out. Horribly overpriced. Overall I cannot recommend this unless someone is a huge BTTF fan and just wants to look at the cool stuff they’ve put together. But an escape room or “escape adventure” as they call it, it is not.