Roomsmiths Escape Rooms: The Naked Eye

By | March 20, 2019

by Roomsmiths Escape Rooms (website)

1st Floor, 30-34 George Place, Millbay, PL1 3NY

Plymouth

3-8 players

60 minutes

There's been strange whispers from RoomCorp Enterprise. Talks of secret bunkers, testing facilities and strange noises that can't be explained. And who is Douglas anyway?
Solve the mysteries of RoomCorp to obtain the Esc Code before time runs out!​
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based on ratings from 8 users
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Lauren Haylock-Shanes rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Played: 30 Dec 2020 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivegreat hostingquite difficult
Byromodon experienced rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
originalgreat hostingquite difficult
Kieren experienced rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Played: 21 May 2022 Team size: 2 Time taken: 76.12 Outcome: Successful escape!
originalfunnygreat hostingquite difficult
Mark Greenhalgh expert rated this:Rated between 35 and 35 out of 5
Played: 24/08/19
Brandon experienced rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
great hostingquite difficult😨creepy
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 30 and 30 out of 5
Outcome: Successful escape!
😨creepy

An odd room. I certainly had fun, and there were some nice aspects to the room. I would recommend, but don't expect to be blown away.

Tim Cooper expert rated this:Rated between 30 and 30 out of 5
Team size: 2 Time taken: 57:00 Outcome: Successful escape!
originalgreat hosting
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5
Team size: 5 Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulhi-techoriginalquite difficult😨creepy

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Having narrowly missed the chance to visit Roomsmiths on my last visit to Devon two years earlier, and having heard good things about it in the meantime, I made a point of including it on our schedule this time round. Located in the slightly rundown area around Union St. Roomsmiths is one of those venues that you may have difficulty finding - unless, of course, you actually read the instructions in the confirmation mail. Naturally we hadn't, and ended up wandering back and forth past tyre shops ...

In a way this felt like it should be a hard room as there was a lot to do, but it clicked with our team and we got out in super-quick time. It’s cosy in places but really opens up so I’d imagine that bigger teams will probably still find things to do.

Roomsmiths- The Naked Eye

December 2023

Overview 

We were advised by another local escape room to try out Roomsmiths and it didn’t disappoint. The place is actually quite easy to find, it’s above a car tyre garage, with plenty of parking and you just have to go up a flight of stairs. There doesn’t appear to be any other way of getting upstairs so if mobility is an issue, then you may need to ask before visiting. Joshua met us upstairs and took us to a huge reception area to give us a health and safety brief and to talk through the different locks we would find. We were then led into the room to start the game, without a brief which did feel a little strange?

Room impression

We started off in an old style office which was modestly decorating but as the game evolved the rooms certainly did as well. It does get quite dark in places and whilst we did get a torch, we were a team of 4 and we struggled a little for light at times. We did though manage to work through this as some of our eyesights are better than others in the group but it’s something to be mindful of. There is music playing throughout and some comical speeches thrown in from time to time. 

Puzzles

There were plenty of padlocks in this game and although we needed a couple of nudges, on the whole, we really enjoyed this game and we flew threw the majority of it. We really cam unstuck around the mid point and we wasted around 15 minutes on one puzzle, if we hadn’t of overcomplicated 2 puzzles in particular, we would have had a much time than 12 seconds to spare! The puzzles flowed nicely and we didn’t have to run around like headless chickens trying every code in every padlock.

Game Master Clues

There is a generic clock when you walk in with the current time so you can keep a rough eye on your progress. For any hints, Joshua gave us a walkie talkie and was there when we did need him on the couple of occasions. He was very good and on the first time we asked for a nudge, he said no and for us to carry on. We’ve not had this before and we actually quite enjoyed it as we were playing around the correct answer for quite some time and it was nice to see that he was keeping a close eye on us.

Round Up

With a success rate of 35%, we were expecting quite a challenging room, which we had. As mentioned, if we hadn’t of messed about on a coupe of puzzles, we would have had a very good time. Having so little time left meant we really did have to pull it together towards the end and we aren’t really that sure how we got out in time, even the host was impressed! All in all, it was an enjoyable experience and we can’t wait to try the new room coming in 2024.

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