About: You hop on train heading to Central Park for a fun day, but before you know it you realize that the train has been abandoned by it’s conductor and is now moving at high speed without a driver… You must figure out how to activate the emergency systems and stop the train… before it’s too late!! High Speed NYC is an advanced hi-tech game that is guaranteed to give you an escape experience like no other!
About: Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock…this crazy adventure is a fabulous trip through time. The crazy timekeeper has been stuck in a time warp and needs your help to get things back on track. This time loop is for 8 players. It will be time well spent!
TLDR: There are three rooms total in this experience, with each room growing in difficulty. There are no locks or keys, but rather the rooms rely on technology such as buttons, switches, and putting things together to unlock the next step. The rooms are nicely set up. Overall, it was a fun challenge that we recommend.
Full review: Upon entering the room, it’s obvious that the experience relies highly on tech rather than locks and keys. There are five sets of different technology that require you to press buttons or flip switches. There were a few clues and two hidden items around the room that were unexpected and nice.
Once completing the first room, you move into an even more high tech room. There are multiple puzzles and gadgets to play around with, which makes this room a good experience for groups of 4 people or larger. The way to figure out each puzzle makes sense, and there are even a few cool surprises, one of which involves the large suitcase-like box on a table. Most of the time spent was in this room.
One finished the second room, we were sweating with nerves as we realized there was a third room. This was the toughest one to crack, for a few reasons. There were puzzles that force you to use your brain and think. One deals with putting magnets together and the other involves the periodic table.
Overall, we thought this was an interesting, high tech room that had numerous puzzles to keep us busy. The rooms were also put together nicely.
About: In the outer reaches of the galaxy, can you and your fellow space travelers escape from a life threatening force?
TLDR: Everything in this room is written in Russian. You are given a cell phone with translation apps and when pointed at words and symbols around the room, you can either read everything in English or hear sounds relating to the symbols. At times the apps were frustrating to work with. You don’t do much searching around the room, as everything is pretty much out in the open. There are four main puzzles to solve which range from intermediate to difficult, which made escaping difficult for two people. This one was a challenge but it was mostly frustrating rather than rewarding, due to the unique high tech involved.
Full review: Upon entering this room, you can pretty much tell that you’ll be in the one room the entire time, meaning everything you need is just about visible. You are handed cell phones that contain two apps on them that you definitely need to complete the game. One app is used to translate Russian words to English by scanning (if you know Russian, you’re in luck!), while the other app involves scanning images around the room, which triggers a sounds and clues on the app. Overall, the apps were frustrating, as sometimes words wouldn’t appear properly.
There are four main puzzles in the room, each having nothing to do with one another, so if you like breaking up into groups to solve separate puzzles but not really working together, this room is for you.
Once the four puzzles are solved, you are given blocks that were hiding under each puzzle, and you must put them together to create something that will help you escape. I won’t go into much more detail than that.
Overall, the room was OK. I appreciated it trying to be unique by using translation apps, but it just wasn’t the most ideal experience for an escape room.
Escape Room City: New York 