Mama Bazooka: The Dome

by Mama Bazooka (website)

Nijverheidsweg 5, 3751 LP

Bunschoten

4-6 players

Languages: EN, NL

60 minutes

For an investigation, you and your team participate in a dozen tests at THE DOME Research Facilities.

The life-threatening criminal cyborg Hector at the same time undergoes the first CMNT treatment on a cyborg ever. .

Hector does not appear to be sensitive to the treatment and thus manages to hack THE DOME system during one of the tests with his internal computer. His henchmen, at the same time on the other side of the world, disable the head of security of THE DOME, Thommas Wigg. .

Because of this, there is nothing that can stop Hector from breaking out. With the result; the escape of an extremely high dose of sodium cyclamate in the research area. You and your team will be stunned by this substance and end up in a heavy hallucination from that moment on.

Do you and your team manage to let go of all logic after Hectors escape and go along with the flow of your hallucination? Or do you get caught up in the illusion that under the influence of sodium Cyclamate you still have some idea of what is reality...

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Played: 15 May 2026 Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!

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Some amazing transitions and strong puzzles throughout. Lacked any cohesive story and felt like each section was an entirely new game experience.

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Played: 8 Oct 2025 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!

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It is hard to go into a game like The Dome without having high expectations. Suffice to say, the experience is intense and the storyline is off the wall. There is a LOT to do and it would be better in a group larger than two. We indicated to the host we wanted to finish given it would not be possible to come back to replay and he successfully did this with a few nudges (38 seconds to spare!). I have only one complaint which is that in one room we got completely stuck on one puzzle and I felt I spent quite a lot of time alone in a room not being able to progress anything and thus getting frustrated with both my teammate and myself as we could not find a good way to communicate - intentional on the part of the room design I think but it was frustrating and took away from an otherwise good experience. There were some amazing moments in terms of set changes. Other people may not run into the same stumbling block (especially with a larger team) and can't really disagree with anyone else in terms of saying this is a must play game.

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Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!

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The hype about this game doesn't do it justice. Id heard so much about it that I actually expected to be underwhelmed but I was pleasantly surprised at just how amazing this was.
I'll not spoil it, just go do it!

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Jess_keds expert rated this:

Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!

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It’s fair to say we had conjured up images in our heads after waiting years to finally play this game. The first part revealed itself to live up to what we imagined and strangely I felt somewhat disappointed. Well, how wrong we were. I can’t say much in fear of spoiling this for any future players but I can say that you will be forever guessing the next move. This is a must play.

matt_keds expert rated this:

Played: 31 May 2025 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!

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You may have heard of The Dome. In fact, I'm tempted to write two versions of this review: one for those who've never heard it mentioned, and another for everyone who knows of it as the game that came top of the 2019 TERPECA awards, the current reigning champion of the English-speaking world's escape room scene. Hype kills enjoyment and no escape room, however magnificent, can live up to such billing; the best way to play it is to stumble across it having heard nothing about it in advance. But i...

The best way to describe The Dome would be to call it a spectacle. And I’m inclined to think that’s the reason this game has been considered by escape room enthusiasts to be one of the top three games in the world for the last five years. However, taste is subjective

9.75 / 10.0

I have played this room already for the 2nd time and feel strengthened in my thesis. THE D👽ME IS NOT FROM THIS WORLD!!! Extraterrestrials have created in order to test the intelligence of mankind 🤯. Because what Escape Room Netherland delivers here is simply mindfucking awesome!

A very belated review of the game that’s been voted the world’s best on two separate occasions, and with good reason. It mixed high-quality puzzles, impressive set decoration and a sense of adventure to leave every other escape room trailing in its wake.

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It’s best played with very little expectations (though I suppose being for a while #1 in the world does come with it a certain level of expectation), so I’ll leave the review with just one final question:

However, our experience with The Dome was one of the best Escape Room experiences we have ever had. Because The Dome is much more than just an Escape Room, it is THE Escape Room. It is the essence of everything that makes up an Escape Room, no other room has managed to call up this range of emotions in me and my fellow players like The Dome.

Die insgesamt zehn Räume unterscheiden sich enorm – sowohl im Setting wie auch im Rätseldesign. Wir hatten etwas den Eindruck, als wäre jeder Raum von einem anderen Designer entwickelt. So ergab sich für uns leider kein wirklich durchgehend stringentes Spielerlebnis, auch wenn die Räume und Rätsel für sich selbst gesehen sehr beeindruckend waren. Denn was "The Dome" zehn Mal pro Raum liefert kriegt man in manchen Fluchtspielen nicht mal in einem. So blieb bei uns am Ende das Gefühl der Überwältigung und Überforderung.

After 360 theatres in France and Austria, I must admit that we have somewhat lost our ability to marvel at a theatre. We liked to play, but not as much as before and I also admit that we were sometimes disappointed by poor quality theatres, with quick decorations, a reception that was a bit of a factory, and uninteresting riddles. You should know that our trip to the Netherlands gave us back a taste for escapes, amazed us and we are so eager to go back there!We are going to talk to you here...

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