City Reserve

City Reserve was my 2nd favorite of the 4 rooms of the Save the City marathon. It’s essentially a bank-themed escape room. Very solid puzzles and a final puzzle that I really enjoyed! A strange thing that stuck out was how one input device was used several times, but once the GM revealed that, it was easier to comprehend how to solve a series of puzzles. Felt surprisingly heisty for something that’s part of a superhero-themed adventure.

This is such a cool facility with a great overall theme that frequently gets recommended to me… but so far none of the rooms I’ve done have really impressive. The City Reserve is no different. There’s definitely overlap in the puzzle logic/design with their other rooms but there were still some great puzzles but also some confusing ones. Some of the mechanics were a bit fiddly and required a bit of additional physical manipulation to get things to open. I still give this room a thumbs up because the facility itself is amazing and the staff is great and despite not fully enjoying their rooms I still want to complete them all because it’s just such a cool concept.

This was a really cool experience. I’m sure the individual pieces are fine, but it was definitely worth doing the whole thing in one go. And the staff was excellent.