Mission: Breakout: Codebreakers

The room initially felt like it was going to be an absolute nightmare, but turned out to be fairly logical and not too hard to get through. The second stage had the same feeling to begin with but as long as you read all the instructions you find, its not too bad. There was one glitchy bit of technology that held us up a bit though. 

The immersion was fantastic from entering the disused station to inside the game. In with the war /codebreaking theme many of the puzzles were pattern based and often relied on trial and improvement approaches (not a bad thing here I thought). Only thing that let it down was the poor hosting - the host didn’t really introduce the game (explain what the idea was for the 2 new players I had brought with me) or talk with us afterwards and left us to our own devices for ages upon entering the building. 

I really wanted to like this one more than I did, as it looked very promising.

The puzzles were fairly straightforward, and we did have a bit of a technical issue with one switch.  I didn't really find it noticeably more immersive than any other rooms I've done - perhaps because of the too-loud and over the top constant sound effects (I don't think codebreakers would have been working in rooms so loud you have to shout over the sound of the aerial gunfight that you can somehow hear from your underground bunker), but the immersion was worse the further through the game you got.

6 people is definitely too many - the last 10/15 minutes was basically a 1/2 person job so we finished on a bit of a low as most of us had just been standing around for a while.

You will get dusty in this, it's unavoidable.  And there is a part with a very enclosed space.