Sudbury, Jul 2024
When we visited, Karma Club had been closed for a few months following some problems with the wiring; we played as a test group for its re-opening, freshly restored with a couple of new puzzles. But it didn’t feel like a test play, it felt like a polished and settled-in game.
Your mission is to break into the nightclub owned by the shady music producer who (boo, hiss!) stole your hit single and claimed it as his own. Specifically, you’re trying to steal a golden disk, and – to really rub it in his face – take a selfie of yourselves with it, before making your escape.
With a game set in a trendy nightclub, they could have put on a soundtrack of cutting edge remixes, but I’m glad to say they chose cheese all the way. We might have been quietly bopping away to the music while solving, and the soundtrack definitely added something extra in fun and energy.
There were times where we struggled to move forwards, usually due to observation failures. So I might be biased by that, but my impression was that Karma Club was amongst the harder rooms at EO, both in terms of puzzle difficulty and puzzle quantity. We would have run out of time if it weren’t for solving the bonus puzzle to give us an extra ten minutes. But all of EO’s rooms have plenty for you to puzzle through, so the reason to pick this one over the others is for the sheer fun of getting your boogie on while popping those locks open. 
