Hatch Escapes: Lab Rat

by Hatch Escapes (website)

Los Angeles

4-12 players

Languages: EN

60 minutes

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combined with 6 pro reviews

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Chris Tyler-Wood expert rated this:

Played: 5 Dec 2024 Team size: 3 Time taken: 43:15 Outcome: Successful escape!

originalimmersivestory-driven

🦡cipherdelic virtuoso rated this:

Played: Nov 2023 Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!

funnyclevergreat hosting

Brilliant room, and so packed with puzzles... you really do end up running round like a real lab rat! Great moments of humour in both the storyline and in what the team need to do to complete the missions. A room that doesn't take itself seriously at all. It's a must play.

Anonymous expert rated this:

originalimmersiveepic

Apparantly this game is 5+ years old.
It's really good! Make the time to make this game part of your trip, The Ladder was close to being open and I will make time to play that when back in the area.

evan experienced rated this:

Played: 10 Feb 2019 Team size: 8 Outcome: Successful escape!

originalimmersive

Totally worth doing, although maybe with a slightly smaller group - with 8 skilled players, I felt like I missed some of what was happening.

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Some escape room themes promise quality before you know anything else about the game. Lab Rat’s premise has the kind of originality that suggests something special, and it more than delivers.

You are the test subjects of Ratkenstein, rodent would-be doctor, who needs you to pass his intelligence test to get his dissertation on human intelligence accepted. It’s a fantasy inversion of animal laboratory testing where humans are in the cages and rats are pulling the strings, a smart premise that is...

If you’re in Los Angeles and there is a room that has been ranked number eight in the world then really it would be rude not to try it out.

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Lab Rat created a world for us to explore. They built a fiction, presented a complete story with a beginning, middle and end, and thrust us into it with scaled-up set design and fully justified gameplay.

6 Keys

Today we prove that we are not idiots, because at least we’re smarter than rats. You know, saying it out loud… that really doesn’t help our case, does it?

Lab Rat phenomenally blends multimedia storytelling into an escape room experience filled with laughter and memorable moments. With over 200 escape rooms under our belts, we are proud to give Lab Rat the newly created gold 5-star rating for pushing the boundary in the world of entertainment.