Game experience: AVERAGE
IMMERSION: 3.5 / PUZZLES: 3 / HOSTING: 3.5
The experimental split-team game design fails to be convincing, and the last puzzle does not make sense. Still fun playing, but you can easily find better elsewhere in Toronto. Continue reading Omescape Markham: Joker’s Asylum
Game experience: EXCELLENT
IMMERSION: 5 / PUZZLES: 5 / HOSTING: 4.5
A fantastic “mimetic room”, where everything aims at fully making sense.
Absolutely everyone should play it: newcomers, enthusiasts, and even people who do not like regular escape rooms! Continue reading Revo Escape: AI’s martyrdom
Game experience: GOOD
IMMERSION: 4 / PUZZLES: 4 / HOSTING: 4
A classical but professionally made 45 minutes long room that should be a perfect introduction for a group of 4 or 5 beginners. Despite the “devilish” theme, this room is not scary, just slightly gloomy at time. Continue reading Escape Manor: Devil’s Advocate
Game experience: ENTERTAINING
IMMERSION: 3.5 / PUZZLES: 4.5 / HOSTING: 3.5
Despite some shortcomings in the immersion, this small room was original and fun to play, featuring original puzzles that avoid nicely the use of padlocks. Continue reading Roundabout: The Ninja
Game experience: VERY GOOD
IMMERSION: 4.5 / PUZZLES: 4.5 / HOSTING: 4
A pleasant, well-made and relatively easy room that unfolds smoothly. Make sure to ask the gamemaster for clarification at the end of the game, in case you did not understand all subtleties of the scenario. Continue reading Perplexity: Lost and Found
Game experience: VERY GOOD
IMMERSION: 4.5 / PUZZLES: 4.5 / HOSTING: 3.5
A bipolar room: a (too) classical start leads later to a thrilling adventure involving exciting manipulations you will rarely have the chance to perform in an escape game! Continue reading Escape from the 6: Firefighter Rescue
Game experience: EXCELLENT
IMMERSION: 5 / PUZZLES: 4.5 / HOSTING: 4.5
A 70-minutes long must-play for everyone who likes scary escape games and don’t mind occasional jump scares. You will certainly want to avoid going alone in some rooms, or be the first or the last to enter or leave a place. Too bad that some of you will have to! Continue reading Nowayout: Sedah 13 ave
Game experience: GOOD Immersion Puzzles Hosting A very well-made creepy atmosphere Some puzzles maladjusted Not enough time planned between two groups Book here After playing the light and fun “Escape with Usavich“, it was now time for us to move to a much darker atmosphere. “Your friend Aya was found dead hanging in the school’s washroom, however the body went missing before the police arrived. The … Continue reading Mayze: The Truth of Osaka High
Game experience: GOOD Immersion Puzzles Hosting The humor and twisted logic Somewhat simple decors at place A gamemaster lacking enthusiasm Book here “You and your friends are watching cartoons at home when it finally happens, you guys get sucked into the television. You appear before a warden who immediately throws you in jail. You look around the cell and you find yourself inside a cartoon world. … Continue reading Mayze: Escape with Usavich
Game experience: GOOD Immersion Puzzles Hosting Nice wooden decors A good puzzle structure The limited number of puzzles The gamemaster entering the room Book here “A friend aboard the Red Pearl has tipped you off that its captain, Silverstone, has acquired an artifact worth a hundred times its weight in gold. To gain entry to the ship, you hatch a plan to track down Silverstone in … Continue reading Freeing Canada Station: Pirate’s Prize
