Breakout Escape Games: Fast & Furious The Garage

By | September 3, 2020

by Breakout Escape Games (website)

18 General Nicolae C. Dona Street

Bucharest

2-6 players

60 minutes

Manhattan, New York. Letty has been kidnapped by a mercenary named Shadow, seeking revenge, and Dominic and Brian need to get her back.
The only way in which Shadow will release Letty is if Dom and the gang manage a series of heists in the most heavily guarded banks in New York. They are faced with an impossible situation and must cover their robberies under the guise of an illegal street car race.
You and your team are part of Dom’s crew and you need to fix one of the damaged cars before the race, steal 3 other super-cars from an Upper East Side parking lot and make it to the race to execute the heists.
Do you think you can do this until the night ends?
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Overall rating

Rated 3.5 out of 5

based on ratings from 14 users
combined with 9 pro reviews

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Player reviews

A Blacksmith expert rated this:Rated between 1.5 and 1.5 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
story-driven
dave470003 rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!
originalplain
Ben Franklin rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Played: 16 Oct 2021 Team size: 6 Time taken: 1hr Outcome: Successful escape!
family friendlybroken tech
Heist Plan is fairly average room, full of lock and key style puzzles. Having done a few newer rooms that no longer use this style of puzzle (or use it minimally), it feels a little dated (even if it might be argued it’s partly thematic for the story of room). Finding keys and unlocking boxes just isn’t super fun, and quickly got repetitive.

The puzzles in this room were pretty simple overall and I’d recommend a group of 2-3 max, in order to get the most out of it. We had 6 people and it was too many as there wasn’t enough for us to do, without at least half of us standing around at any given time.

Some of puzzles in this room are a bit more physical, with a chain related puzzle being the highlight. Without giving away any spoilers, one other puzzle - easily the worst part of the room - had us controlling something which was absolutely NOT fun. Three different people tried it in our group, and at certain points we had to improvise in order to ‘fix’ the puzzle so we could continue playing it. It was a good idea on paper, but very poorly executed. Seemingly the main functioning item of the puzzle wasn’t operating properly, and needs to be replaced. Fortunately, after completing this puzzle the final challenge is at least a little more fun, if not the most taxing thing to work out. It did allow our younger group member to get involved though, which he enjoyed.

One other big complaint - the 60 minute timer wasn’t set in our room, so we had ZERO idea of how long we had left, or how long it took us to get our. We’re guessing 45 mins, but nobody came to tell us (assuming they were timing it) and the clock in our room just sat at 60:00 the whole time. Weirdly it eliminated any urgency we had, and made the whole thing a fairly leisurely experience…

However, outside of all that, arguably one of the things I think we liked least about this room was our host. They were the opposite of welcoming, were cold and just too officious. We heard the host for The Flying Dutchman was much better (and seemingly did a great job of adding to the experience), but our own host seriously effected the enthusiasm we had as a group. My son is autistic, and the host was fairly curt with him a few times, over the radio, when he touched things he shouldn't have done. A simple reminder, would've been far more appropriate.
ratsontour expert rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Played: 5 Feb 2023 Team size: 2
Steph Norchi experienced rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!
kman expert rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 13 May 2017 Team size: 5 Time taken: 41m 30s Outcome: Successful escape!
c2creviewer experienced rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
wyd_marissa rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 21 Jun 2021 Team size: 4 Time taken: 47:14 Outcome: Successful escape!
quite easy

Fairly easy, minimal story, and the focus was more on the 'plan' than on the 'heist' itself. There were lots of objects to interact with so it was entertaining 🙂

Ronnie Meade experienced rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
original

Not a bad attempt to immerse players into the world of Fast & Furious. The theme and design of the garag are good and brings you in to the storyline. The clue system I wasn't a fan of and we had technical problems with some elements of the room. The remote control car puzzle is original but feels more of a gimmick. A good room but lacking in substance

Charly expert rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Outcome: Successful escape!
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Reviews by escape room review sites

'Escape the garage' might not sound like the most thrilling of themes, though this actually has a Fast & Furious style plot of fast cars and bank heists. But once it gets going it's an engagingly physical and just plain fun escape game that left me with a big grin on my face.

In contrast to the first Breakin' room we'd done (Blackwing's Cave), this room was brightly lit. It's also less high tech, though only relative to that very high bar - while there are plenty of keys and locks and physical ...

A surprisingly fun game given the car heist subject matter. Worth playing due to decent flow and solid puzzles with some physical and communication elements although it was let down a bit by faulty equipment.
I was absolutely delighted by playing Heist Plan …But despite the name, I don’t know if I’d really call it a heist themed escape room. It was a little more ‘car’ themed! It was a little like being commissioned to make a heist themed escape room but the designer just really, really liked the garage aesthetic!
We try out Breakin's Fast and the Furious themed escape room.

Break-in’ Escape London- Heist Plan

March 2024

Overview 

With a cheeky weekend away in London planned for one of team’s birthday, we decided to try our hand at a couple of games in the nations capital. After a lot of research, we decided to try Breakin’ escapes and the first room was to be Heist. After further research, Heist was based on a famous car heist film franchise and it certainly a bit different than what are used to trying in game themes. The reception was large and spacious, however, no where to get any refreshments and unlike the friendliness of local businesses, the hosts were very abrupt and to the point. Typical London!

Room impression

The scene was set as a car mechanic garage and they had done a good job on allowing you to become immersed into the theme of trying to fix your car up and completing the heist. The design of the room was very good on the surface but the more of the game we played, we started to see that it was a bit tired and some of the puzzles didn’t work as they should have.

Puzzles

As mentioned above, the game itself was actually quite enjoyable with some hands on games that none of us had seen before and we did enjoy. However, a couple of them didn’t work as planned and on one of the main puzzles towards the end, when we thought we had done it all, the host started probing us over the radio asking how we had completed it and what we had done wrong. In actual fact, we had done it correctly but the system didn’t pick it up and it was clear that the host wasn’t watching us properly or they would have seen that we done it. After a few more reviews of this room, it doesn’t look like we are the only ones to have this happened too, so be aware.

Game Master Clues

There was a digital clock in the corner of the room to keep an eye on the clock and there was also a radio for the host to communicate to us. We didn’t ask for any clues ourselves and we got into the grove relatively easily with this room but as mentioned above, the host clearly wasn’t watching us closely or they would have seen we were on track. 

Round Up

It was a culture shock for us in the Big Smoke to not have the warmth and friendliness that we are used to back home in the Westcounty with local businesses actually caring if you enjoyed your visit. Here at Breakin’, they genuinely made zero attempt to interact with us and started clearing the room up before we had even walked out of the room. When we walked into the building, there was no pleasantries and we were just told to sit and wait. If we hadn’t of booked a second room straight after Heist, we probably wouldn’t have stayed just because of how we were made to feel but the room was actually pretty decent and if you don’t care about customer service and just want to play a game, Heist is worthy of a visit.

Breakin's heist-themed escape room has you and your gang getting ready to carry out an audacious bank-robbing tour of New York City. Did we have the drive to pull it off?

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