Escobar

Heavily overrated room. Our whole group of enthusiasts agreed. The good news is that the setting and production design are amazing. Top marks for that. The rest of the experience left a lot to be desired. The puzzle flow was..... woof! Puzzles and clues did not connect to each other in any kind of sensical, narrative driven way. We finished one of the early major puzzles completely by accident. Another puzzle, which seemed like a central set-piece to the room, merely resulted in a basic clue for a puzzle we already completed. And don't get me started on the Red Herrings. So. Many. Red. Herrings. And things you accomplished but the room doesn't let you know that you have. Oh, and do you like puzzles where after you solve it, you have to wait 2 minutes to get the result? I'm not kidding, after you solve one centerpiece puzzle, you *literally* have to wait 2 minutes before you get the information from that solution. If there was other stuff you could do during that time, great! But we'd already done everything else, so we were actually just standing around waiting for two minutes. It's a shame that in such an immersively set-designed room, we were left feeling bored and confused most of the time. But that wasn't even the worst part. The worst part is that, in our opinion, our time was cut artificially short by the GM, and we lost the game. With no clock in the room, our time "ran out" right at 3pm on a 2pm reservation, even though the GM started our game at about 2:10. We had arrived a few minutes before our start time. Finished the wavers before our start time. The GM disappeared to finish resetting the room. I used the bathroom. After, we were still waiting on the GM to finish resetting. Finally, about 10 minutes after the hour, the GM let us in and gave us the spiel. She was good at this to be fair. And then our experience ended *exactly* at 3pm, 50 minutes in, and we failed the game with a couple puzzles to go. Frustrated, we called them out on this. Upon realizing they may have messed up, they offered us free sodas. Sweet. I guess that's what tipping them on top of the booking price prior to the experience got us. Look, I don't want to fully bad mouth this room, because there are plenty of awesome qualities about it. But overall, as escape room enthusiasts who have done many, many rooms, this was one of the more disappointing rooms we've experience.

This room was pretty different than all the other rooms I’ve played. It had some very unique elements that I appreciated, but with that being said, things were not always very intuitive. The GM was super nice (one of the co-owners) so her enthusiasm really helped our experience.

Our GM Frank was a delight to have running our game. The game had very immersive set design and great puzzles that are integrated into the side. We loved those moments where we thought "they don't actually want us to ___ do they?" but the answer was yes and we were rewarded for it.

Overall this makes top 5 rooms I have done for sure! I loved the immersion and the game play. It wasn’t as much logic puzzles as practical thinking and truly putting yourself in the mindset of the storylines task not just escaping.

Oh man, we just got Pablo Escobar’d.

Ayo, we got a little Pablo Escobar ova here! -Pablo Escobar’s Italian confidant, Jimmy Two-Shoes Pretty fun, puzzles didn’t always make sense but overall rad. Little gripe, tho: doors should OPEN when you trigger them to unlock. Annoying to make people roam around looking to see what they did when you could easily just put a spring on the back of the door.

So adorable with great attention to detail. Nostalgic and large space. High production value. We would do this room again and highly recommend to anyone who wants to feel they’re traveled outside of the country and part of a real storyline

Great room with a wide variety of puzzles! The set design, music and the GM were all awesome! This room is slightly different from a traditional escape room where it’s more “hands-on”. We went as a crew of six and had plenty to do! If you’re highly experienced, groups of 3-4 is recommended!

Good but not great. This is one of the few rooms that neither impressed nor disappointed. Most puzzles were straightforward; a were couple non-sensical and convoluted.