Open Mind: 11S

I debated a while on what I would rate this room because there is no getting around the theme. In my opinion it’s not something that an escape room can do justice.

As a game the flow was clear and had a lot of unique set elements, it was extremely immersive (not necessarily a good thing in this context) and there were some very interesting puzzles involving interacting with the set. The clue system itself however was very frustrating, it was hard to hear and received a lot of interference from nearby buildings I assume. 

It was very clear from early on in the game though that they were not hiding from the theme of the room. There was footage and audio recordings of the attack played throughout sometimes rather distastefully  mixed with puzzles. Whenever we enjoyed a puzzle we felt quite guilty about it because of the context of the room!

Finally and the biggest let down of all was the ending of the game. We were rushed by an actor into a pitch black room before realising that we had entered a memorial section. In my opinion this wasn’t tasteful and was made worse because after we watched this very upsetting video we were congratulated by our GM for our excellent game!