The Great Escape Room

I don't write reviews often but The manager Carrie was terrible. She lock any costumers skills. Every question we asked was answered with attitude

Came in to play The Coliseum. 120 minutes of play. Moira and Killian are great at their jobs! We made it through with 6 minutes to spare. Nice and challenging. Props and puzzles are fun to play. I highly recommend this business.

This was a lot of fun!

I had never done an escape room before so I was a bit apprehensive when our team decided to do this during a recent work trip. The staff put our minds at ease and suddenly I found myself in the most difficult room (the infirmary!).

While we did have to rely on a few clues, we still managed to have a great time and come in first out of our work teams. The staff took photos of us afterward and everyone walked away saying how much fun they had.

So fun and a solid challenge. Our groups of 6 came in on randomly on a Thursday night after dinner and a few drinks at Sunda and had a blast. It's just about a 10 minute walk and really made our groups evening special by doing something we don't normally do. I hate to say how many times I've walked past this location and had no idea. It's just to the west of Hampton Social almost directly underneath LaBriola.
After taking the elevator to the 4th floor and ringing the door bell we were promptly greeted by Moira and she was fantastic! She made this experience so much more exciting and is so welcoming. She really got everyone in the mood and ready for a challenge.
We did the colosseum room and we made it though without a hint, but we did have to get 1 object re-opened after someone in our group closed it on accident and out of excitement!
We completed the room with 46 mins to spare but I will say there were quite a few pieces to this puzzle that really had us stumped for longer than I'd like to admit. I blame drinks and a sushi dinner on a bit of brain fog initially, especially in the first room - it took us about 26 mins of the 2 hour time limit but once we we're warmed up we got the hang things and for the most part we got through the next 2 rooms in about another 40 ish mins. It truly takes team work to figure out these puzzles and you will have a blast doing it. Don't give up - you're more clever than you think you are!
Definitely give this game room a try!

Having played almost one hundred games all across the United States, I can confidently say this was the WORST ESCAPE ROOM EXPERIENCE we have had!! We spent $300 and drove from another state to play. We booked the Coliseum for 5 players. We were told by the employee who greeted us that he was leaving and a female employee would be taking over. That seemed fine, until it wasn't. In the very first room technical problems happened. Some of the puzzles in the room weren't reset and they opened without having to solve anything. That room took about 5 minutes. When nothing happened and we couldn't move onward or get more hints we had to exit the game into the hallway to find help. That's when we were told she was the only employee working and had to do all rooms herself and asked us to be patient. We were then told the communication system wasn't working. She opened the door for room 2 and immediately upon entering, all the mag locks opened, dropping keys, etc. WTF? We stood around again, went into the hallway, looking for help. She asked us to go back into the first room to reset the second room. All the lights went out and we waited at least 5 more minutes before we, once again, left the immersion of the room to seek out assistance. The flow of the entire game was ruined by the lack of staffing, room prep, and technical difficulties! When we finished the game we exited and waited around in an empty lobby. No one in site!! When the employee showed up, she apologized and said she didn't realize we finished and was in the bathroom...there was no "good job, you finished" , upsell for future games, or merchandise, which is the norm for the industry. We even had to ask her to take our picture. It might have been a great room, but who knows? I would NOT recommend this place to anyone, unless you have never been to an escape room before and wouldn't know any difference. What we experienced wasn't worth $20, I deserve my $300 back . Definitely more training for your one employee a shift is needed and get those technical issues fixed.

HI JACOB THANKS FOR THE LOVELY AFTERNOON

My friends and I (4 of us total) did the President's Bunker! We had one hint and got out in 52 minutes. I'm glad we got a private room to ourselves. Well made, custom clues, and tons (maybe too many) red herring props in the room.

Some of the puzzles were fun and rewarding, some were way too difficult/specific, some were much easier with prior knowledge, some were more difficult with prior knowledge (didn't follow expected conventions), and some were too silly to be a plausible puzzle that we'd ever... ask a president to solve.

The last puzzle also malfunctioned, and we didn't get the proper celebratory ending I was kind of hoping for. Still, so fun, and a great way to spend an afternoon with friends (AND JACOB!)

Had such a great time here! Ander, Nine and Nina were all really helpful, the atmosphere was overall just really relaxed and welcoming, and the rooms were well put together, highly recommend!

Awesome. Much better than others. Even if you are experienced, this roll challenge you.

Staff very friendly. Highly recommend.

While not our first choice, what caught our attention was that they offered a 2 hour escape room. I've only seen 1 hour ones so I was interested to see what they could offer. Was it more puzzles? A lot more immersive? Had to try to find out.

The theme was escaping the Greek Coliseum and the puzzles were pretty well laid out. I was a little worried because it comes with audio recordings that act as clues. What if we missed it? Or what if the quality was so poor that we couldn't understand it? Luckily, it was clear to listen and we could notify the game master to replay it if we missed it.

Most of the time, he would offer "nudges" instead of hints, which doesn't hurt your score if you're trying for the leaderboard. In the end, we beat the game in 69 minutes (nice) with 0 hints! Broke the record!

Since it's a 2 hour long escape room, it was more expensive than usual. While I'm proud that we broke the record, we didn't even need the full 2 hours so we felt like there could've been more to do in the room, to take up the full time we paid for.

Nonetheless, I would come back if ever in the area to try their other rooms.

We had a bit of extra time during our visit to Chicago, so our group decided to do an escape room to pass the time. This place caught our eye because of the option of a 2 hour escape room, which we've never seen elsewhere. We ended up booking this room, which was called Escape the Colosseum, for our group of 8.

My first impression was that the staff was very friendly and welcoming. In terms of the room itself, I felt that everything was nicely set up, and the puzzles were challenging, but still made sense. When I heard that there would be audio components of the room, I was a bit worried, since I've had problems with past escape rooms where audio was extremely muffled, making it hard to gather pertinent information. However, we didn't have this issue here, as the audio was pretty loud and clear (we did have a larger group so we just had to hush people occasionally when the audio was playing).

My only complaint would probably be that we finished the room in slightly over an hour, so I feel like it would be better advertised as a 90 minute escape room rather than 120 minutes. From what I remember, the room had a 39% completion rate, which seems really low for 2 full hours. However, overall I really enjoyed my experience and glad we chose to do an escape room here!