Games in Amsterdam by Sherlocked
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Amazing game master in this amazing escape room (yes, two times amazing is justified)!
We just hate it when we don‘t finish, especially if there is so little missing. Although the end is also quite fun when you don‘t make it, it just doesn‘t create the same sense of joy. We felt like we „lost time“ because of the acting. One other minus is that the game master told us that taking a picture in the room „is not possible because of time“. What a pity to have to take the picture on the staircase (although it is a nice one).
That being said, maybe we had too high expectations because of other reviews. The beginning is quite fun and different from other rooms. And the set is just amazing, so well integrated into this historical building. The riddles are good, rather on the difficult side.
The set for this game is absolutely wonderful - the amount of time and effort that must have gone into this game to make it look how it does must have been immense. There are several "wow" moments along the way. The hint system is well integrated when needed.
It is not scary so does tick "family-friendly" as a box but I wouldn't recommend it as a family game - some of the puzzles are trickier and were therefore not so accessible to younger participants (age 10 and 13 in our case). However, there were other moments they enjoyed, but they did not rate this game as highly as some of the more adrenaline fuelled ones we played in Benelux.
My only criticism is that it is very dark in places, and we were unable to read some of the required information - it would be really helpful if some kind of light were provided for this.
We really enjoyd this game. Well designed and everything was clever and different.