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Chapter 1: The Basement

Very positive (360 ratings)

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Will you escape Edward's basement? You and your friends have been kidnapped by Edward Tandy -- a cannibalistic serial killer with a fine taste for unique electronics, taxidermy, and of course human flesh. He has created a sick and twisted game of sorts in his deceased mother's home. He hopes to weed out the unintelligent and find those who are "worthy of escaping" by his late mother's standards. In THE BASEMENT, you and your team will have to employ keen communication skills, a finely tuned organizational prowess, and a general ability to keep your $h!t together under pressure if you want to survive. This is what we like to call a "funnel puzzle" where you will find numerous items and clues throughout the room. These items all come together to orchestrate your escape.

  • 1-10
  • 45 mins
  • Hard
  • Scary

Awards

Ratings

All ratings (360)

Very positive

Gameplay
Very positive
Atmosphere
Very positive
Customer service
Very positive

Reviews

@jessica34
jessica34

136 escape rooms

This room is really tough to rate, because the actual game is pretty good, decent puzzles though it’s really just a lot of search puzzles. I really really didn’t like the live actor, because she became a part of the team, but a pushy overly hinting member of the team that honestly kinda of ruined the experience. But it’s hard to really poorly rate the room, because things were still better than your average escape room. But it was agreed upon by all 6 of us that it was by far the worst at The Basement.

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Gameplay

Ehhh, very non linear and a lot of stuff presented at once, but not used for a while. So, not much “flow”. Shows it’s age a good bit, still fun though.

Atmosphere

Fairly impressive, it more or less looked like a basement nowhere near their most impressive room though.

Customer service

GM was great, the actor was way overly pushy with hints, she basically walked us through the room, which was very frustrating.

Particularly interesting or different

No

Story

The story is well integrated, throughout all their rooms, which is one of the basement’s strength.

Difficulty

Medium

Game tech

Mechanical

Ideal number of players

4

Scary

Scary

Minimum age

10

Was anything broken?

No

Live actors

Yes

Physically active

Not at all

Easy to find location

No

Parking

Medium

Aug 3, 2023 | Experienced Aug 3, 2023
@taylorelizabeth
taylorelizabeth

19 escape rooms

We had a lot of fun in this room and our actor was the best! We liked it so much that we failed the first time and came back to win!

Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Live actors

Yes

Jul 9, 2023
@carrie43
carrie43

23 escape rooms

We did the dead and breakfast package where you get to do all 4 escape rooms back to back. This worked for us since our team loves out of area. This one in particular was pretty scary and had challenging puzzles. It also was pretty realistic since it included a live actor.

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Gameplay

Scary and immersive

Atmosphere

Well acted and challenging puzzles

Customer service

Awesome staff. We did the dead and breakfast package where you get to do all 4 escape rooms back to back. This worked for us since our team loves out of area.

Minimum age

14

Mar 7, 2023 | Experienced Mar 7, 2023
@padillajessica
padillajessica

95 escape rooms

𓆜𓋘𓄁 𓊛𓇙𓋸𓌤𓌥 𓌦 𓅐𓆢 𓆣 𓀉𓆤 𓆥 𓅑𓆘 𓆙 𓅒𓄙 𓄚 𓄛 𓅓𓃺 𓃻 𓅔 𓅕 𓃕 𓃖 𓃗 𓎷 𓄁𓎸𓅖 𓅽 𓅾 𓅿𓅗 𓅘 𓇆 𓇇𓅙 𓅚 𓁵 𓁶𓂵 𓂶𓃝𓋲 𓋳𓀬 𓅛𓁃 𓂺𓅜 �𓅝𓃄 �𓄁𓅞𓂙 𓅟𓂿 𓆜𓋘𓄁 𓊛𓇙𓋸𓌤𓌥 𓌦 𓅐𓆢 𓆣 𓀉𓆤 𓆥 𓅑𓆘 𓆙 𓅒𓄙 𓄚 𓄛 𓅓𓃺 𓃻 𓅔 𓅕 𓃕 𓃖 𓃗 𓎷 𓄁𓎸𓅖 𓅽 𓅾 𓅿𓅗 𓅘 𓇆 𓇇𓅙 𓅚 𓁵 𓁶𓂵 𓂶𓃝𓋲 𓋳𓀬 𓅛𓁃 𓂺𓅜 𓂨𓅝𓃄 𓄁𓅞𓂙 𓅟𓂿

Jan 1, 2023 | Experienced Dec 16, 2022
@catherine87
catherine87

44 escape rooms

𓆜𓋘𓄁 𓊛𓇙𓋸𓌤𓌥 𓌦 𓅐𓆢 𓆣 𓀉𓆤 𓆥 𓅑𓆘 𓆙 𓅒𓄙 𓄚 𓄛 𓅓𓃺 𓃻 𓅔 𓅕 𓃕 𓃖 𓃗 𓎷 𓄁𓎸𓅖 𓅽 𓅾 𓅿𓅗 𓅘 𓇆 𓇇𓅙 𓅚 𓁵 𓁶𓂵 𓂶𓃝𓋲 𓋳𓀬 𓅛𓁃 𓂺𓅜 �𓅝𓃄 �𓄁𓅞𓂙 𓅟𓂿 𓆜𓋘𓄁 𓊛𓇙𓋸𓌤𓌥 𓌦 𓅐𓆢 𓆣 𓀉𓆤 𓆥 𓅑𓆘 𓆙 𓅒𓄙 𓄚 𓄛 𓅓𓃺 𓃻 𓅔 𓅕 𓃕 𓃖 𓃗 𓎷 𓄁𓎸𓅖 𓅽 𓅾 𓅿𓅗 𓅘 𓇆 𓇇𓅙 𓅚 𓁵 𓁶𓂵 𓂶𓃝𓋲 𓋳𓀬 𓅛𓁃 𓂺𓅜 𓂨𓅝𓃄 𓄁𓅞𓂙 𓅟𓂿

Dec 19, 2022
@burnsjennifer
burnsjennifer

83 escape rooms

I’ve done this room twice. The first time, we were put with many strangers and I hated it. It was frustrating, the actor kept scaring everyone in the room (not the actors fault at all they were just trying to help us along with the puzzle) and when I asked how close we were to getting out the person said “I don’t know it’s my first day. You can play it again and figure it out. Now, get out”. I was angry about it. I’ve gone back couple years later when the rooms became private. It was a better experience but still frustrating. If you don’t have a crew that knows what they are doing, it’s going to be a close call getting out. We spent out last 10 minutes searching for one puzzle piece we were missing and there was nothing the actor could do to help. Wasn’t the funnest of times. Out of their chapters, you can do this fine but I’d say skip. They have better rooms.

Dec 7, 2022 | Experienced Sep 9, 2020
@andrew74
andrew74

658 escape rooms

This was my very first escape experience and I was blown away! It started my passion for escape rooms and I couldn’t have asked for a better escape experience! A must do for everyone!

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Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Particularly interesting or different

Yes

Story
Difficulty

Medium

Scary

Scary

Was anything broken?

No

Live actors

Yes

Physically active

Somewhat

Easy to find location

Yes

Parking

Easy

Dec 3, 2022 | Experienced Aug 8, 2016

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williamdrake

46 escape rooms

My first escape room experience. It was great

Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Live actors

Yes

Nov 21, 2022
@karen36
karen36

90 escape rooms

Man oh man. This room. I almost quit before we even got in. I was so scared. This is for sure the scariest room here. But not tooooo bad. My recommendation for this room is to tear it up and pay attention lol! Great decor and loved our actor!

Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Physically active

Somewhat

Oct 22, 2022

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