Tag: Easy

Location: Escape Entertainment; 39 West 32nd Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10001

Date completed: January 2019 (2 players)

Creativity: 4; Difficulty: 4; Atmosphere: 4; Fun: 5

Requirements: 4-10 players

About: Manhattan is under siege and chaos abounds! Can you rescue the city within 60 minutes? The Big Apple is counting on you.

TLDR: This room is easy and can be done with two people even though four is recommended. There are eight easy mini puzzles to solve, which leads to the final two tasks. There is only one room in this game and it is not immersive. There is nothing hidden or any secrets to uncover. Everything is already out in the open for you. Overall, the experience was pretty bleak but is recommended if you like completing multiple small puzzles that bring everything together.

Full review: The two of us arrived at Escape Entertainment as walk-ins and were strongly discouraged from playing the game, as it is recommended there are at least four players. We decided to play anyway because we like a good challenge, even though they were trying to convince us it would be impossible to escape.

Walking into the room, it was easy to notice that there were no other secret rooms in the experience, which is usually a let down for us and takes away the magic of escape rooms in general.

10 minutes into the game, I was surprised by how easy the room was, based on what we were told by the employee. With seven easy mini puzzles around the room to complete, which together gives you answers to the second to last activity of the room, we were breezing through.

With 25 minutes left, we entered the final phase of the room, which was putting together four puzzles with blocks. It was actually pretty difficult to figure out what the puzzles were trying to form, and ultimately we weren’t able to get out in time, as we could only figure out 2/4 of the puzzles.

We were proud we were almost out of the room despite the odds we thought we were going against, but we believe this room is much easier than Escape Entertainment is making it out to be.

Even though the room fits 10 people, 10 people is way too many and most people will be standing around bored. We recommend 2-5 people for this one.

Overall, we weren’t too impressed with the set up of the room or the puzzles.