REMOTE: Exit19.pl - "Curse of Maya Treasure"

Updated: Apr 23

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Company: Exit19.pl

Game: Curse of Mayan Treasure

Country: Poland 🇵🇱

Language: English, Polish

Type of Game: Remote Escape Room 🗣

Genre: Adventure

Date Played: 6/17/2021

Difficulty (based on 5 players): 4.5/10

Size of Team: 2-4 Players

Time: 60 Minutes

Price: Approx $71 (Polish), $95 (English)

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You decided to assemble a team of brave explorers to enter the Temple of the Great Jaguar. Legend has it, it holds three hearts that can give it's owner the power to rule the world. This is not an easy task as the archaeologist George Tillman went missing after he decided to venture into this temple. Perhaps there are mysterious forces guarding these artifacts?

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Our avatar introduced herself to us over Zoom as the grand daughter of Mr. Tillman. She was hoping that we would be able to help her uncover what had happen to her grandpa. This game was paired with an online inventory system Telescape. You'll receive 360 views of the rooms along with a few clue pieces that need a closer look.

With no surprise, Exit19.pl build another beautiful set that transported us into an Indiana Jones movie. Right away, all of our players put on our explorer hats and started to investigate the ancient temple. Throughout the game play, we're able to discover unexpected surprises and cool Mayan mechanisms. In this game, I wish they would have utilized Telescape a bit more on showing us what items were collected throughout the game play as there were a good amount of game pieces that we had to keep track of.

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I always thought translating a temple game to online would be challenging since most of the puzzles revolve around Mayan symbols and shapes. It's quite difficult to verbally translate these to the GM. Our GM was quick to interpret our commands and to our surprise, we're able to complete those puzzles rather quickly.

One issue I had was a map puzzle. I'm still not sure how the GM was able to find the spot of where I was informing to as I don't think I told her clear instructions. For online play, if there could be some kind of a grid either in Telescape as an interactive puzzle or on the floor of the temple, that would greatly help the players on how to navigate the information to the avatar.

A lot of the puzzles revolved around identifying the right symbols and associating them to certain objects in the right order. The puzzles were quite easy. While it was fun to direct the avatar to do them for us, this would have been a lot more exciting if we're playing this room IRL.

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Some elements like sound and special effects were kind of lost while playing the online version of this game. For instance, our avatar had to inform us as we couldn't tell where something had opened due to our inputs. But overall, we were distracted by the scenery and watching how certain mechanisms worked that we forgot about some of the shortcomings. Especially when we successfully retrieved the three hearts and made grandpa proud!

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Melvin L.

Curse of Maya Treasure was the second game that I have played from Exit19. The gameplay was the same as the previous one, Betrayal. There will be a game master on site and you will be guiding here on the areas you want to search via zoom. A Telescape link is also provided so that other team members can look at other areas of the room instead of all watching a single angle on zoom. Interesting items found will also appear on Telescape so players can have a look at it while the rest can guide the game master to other areas to save time.

When I first played Betrayal, I was amazed by its set design and apparently, this is what Exit19 is known for. Curse of Maya Treasure is the same. Although it wasn't as big as Betrayal and there were less 'wow' moments, the set design looks exactly like a Mayan Temple. It was jam packed with stuff all around, and every single item was used as a puzzle. You have snakes, scarabs, scorpions, totems, statues, hieroglyphics and so on. Things were everywhere and it was very confusing to decide where you wanted to look at first! Luckily, we had a kind explorer as our game master and she slowly walked around the perimeter of the room so that we could go through it slowly.

For the puzzles, this room is actually on the easier side compared to Betrayal. If I did not need to write down much notes, it means everything is basically physical tasks and/or straightforward. Once you see the clue, you will know what to do with it. There were some mechanisms that I didn't think were possible but it was. Definitely curious to know how they implemented this electrical technology, but I will never know. Haha

In conclusion, you should not be undergoing a brain workout while playing this. This room is just pure fun. And fun doesn't mean you need to solve a lot of puzzles! You can be going on an adventure and it is still considered fun.

Based on the room size, if you were to play it remotely, I wouldn't recommend more than 5 people as some areas are quite narrow and it is not as spacious as the other room. I heard that Betrayal is not even their largest room, so I would love the chance to play all of their rooms one day! This has been another good experience for me, which says a lot of the standard Exit19 provides in their rooms.

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Helen B.

Well this definitely wins my award for most beautiful room I have played so far! Another avatar-based game from Exit-19 which combines your live avatar and a cameraperson in the room interacting, while you can browse the room at leisure on Telescape and see anything in detail when triggered by the team.

The room is fantastically decorated and themed, with beautiful paintings, carvings and every inch of the room is considered. The attention to detail is phenomenal.

Our host played a suitably naive girl looking for her grandfather and we explored the room looking for clues to his whereabouts. The puzzles were a lovely mix and reminded me a lot of the Aztec zone in the Crystal maze in terms of look and style. There were clever physical manipulations, levers, locks, jigsaws, placement puzzles, codes and more. It kept us thinking all the way through!

The only thing I found hard was discerning between the colours of some of the items shown to us, but luckily the GM described everything well to us.

I highly recommend this room to anyone as it is just so beautiful, intricate and clever.

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Disclosure: We thank Exit19.pl for comping our tickets for this game. Although complimentary admission was generously provided, it does not impact our opinion on the review whatsoever.