The Escape Ventures - "Area 51"
- Cici Cao
- 1 day ago
- 3 min read
LOCATION: Winter Garden, Florida, USA
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📝 ETR DECODER
🔑 GAME: Area 51
📅 DATE PLAYED: February 15, 2025
🎬 GENRE: Sci-Fi
🧠 DIFFICULTY (Based on 2 ppl): /10
👥 TOTAL # OF PLAYERS: 2-8 ppl
🕒 LENGTH OF TIME: 60 Mins.
💰 PRICE: $35.99/ pp
☎️ BOOKING TYPE: Private
🔓 ESCAPED/ COMPLETED?: Yes
📖 THE STORY
Congratulations on your advancement from Level 1, prompted only due to an incident that happened to the former Level 2 team. We trust that your team will excel and continue the vital work disrupted by these events. It's crucial to prevent losing more teams to such incidents.
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🎯 HIT THE BULLSEYE
The game master was deeply immersed in her character, and we thoroughly enjoyed how she introduced the storyline.
The game featured a mechanism that was quite entertaining to "operate," and the input and output provided us with some chuckles.
We liked solving a puzzle by connecting the visual clue with the hints we gathered from different parts of the room and then assembling the story.
There was an interesting way that required us to collaborate as a team to solve a visual puzzle.
🧩 MISSED THE MARK
One of the picture clues was quite confusing because its position could easily be linked with the locks and other clues in the area. This made us think it was a more complex multi-step puzzle rather than requiring a simple solution. However, the simple solution also lacked an "explanation" for what we needed to input.
The wording on one of the mechanisms was unclear about what we were supposed to do with the solution we had found.
An instruction pamphlet was missing a step. We eventually figured it out, but it would be helpful to include it.
The ending felt like a "cliffhanger" because we would have preferred to see the finale rather than just "feel" it. We were unsure if we had completed everything we needed to do until the game master came in.
🏹 TAKE A SHOT?
This game evoked nostalgic memories of puzzles commonly used in other escape rooms. As an older game acquired by The Escape Ventures from Escape Goat some time ago, it falls slightly short in creativity compared to their own offerings. The game flow and clues were somewhat misaligned, but overall, we appreciated the concept. It serves well as an introductory experience for newcomers to the escape room scene. I highly recommend kicking off your adventure here before diving into their other locations for an eye-opening experience!
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ℹ️ ADDITIONAL INFO
Free Parking
Lockers available
Lobby with seating
Note: At least one person in the team would need to be able to crawl into a small space.
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Check out our YouTube video for a sneak peek of the location, interview with the owners, the room(s) (no puzzle spoilers) and more:
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Disclosure: We thank The Escape Ventures for comping our tickets for this game. Although complimentary admission was generously provided, it does not impact our opinion on the review whatsoever.
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