Be the hazard
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Date Played: April 2, 2024
Team size: up to 8; we recommend 3-4
Duration: 60 minutes
Price: $41.99 per player
Ticketing: Public
Accessibility Consideration: The Escape Game is located on the lower level of City Point Brooklyn, accessible by escalator or elevator.
Emergency Exit Rating: [A+] No Lock
Physical Restraints: [A+] No Physical Restraints
2024 Golden Lock Award Winner
"The Escape Game produced a humorously compelling experience around breaking your way through a futuristic space station. Cosmic Crisis represents a new standard for escape room chains and franchises. "
REA Reaction
We've long been fans of The Escape Game. Although we haven't played some of their newer games in Nashville, this was – by a wide margin – their best game that we've played.
This game nailed all the core components: puzzles, interactions, set, and justification.
We had a story within the game. Every interaction we took was to destroy. We loved this twist on the futuristic sci-fi theme, where we didn't need knowledge (we invariably don't have) to fix things. We got to think creatively to destroy them, which positioned us as ourselves in this game world. And The Escape Game pushed this further with hacking and MacGyver-type puzzles that made us feel especially brilliant.
The game left a lot of room for exploration and play.
In addition, the beautiful, polished set and props were fun to interact with.
As a teamwork-centric game, we recommend 3-4 players for the optimal experience. With fewer than 3, some puzzles will likely be frustrating, and you'll only want more than 4 if some folks are planning to mostly hang back. Note that The Escape Game is public ticketing, so securing a playthrough with the optimal team size will likely be your biggest hurdle to having an amazing time in Cosmic Crisis.
Cosmic Crisis has jumped to the top of our recommendations for The Escape Game, and is now high on our recommendations list for any city where it's offered. We hope that The Escape Game proliferates this game broadly, as its a significant leap ahead for them as a company.
Who is this for?
- Adventure seekers
- Puzzle lovers
- Scenery snobs
- Sci-fi fans
- Any experience level
- Players who don't need to be a part of every puzzle
Why play?
- A gorgeous, tactile set
- Collaborative puzzles
- MacGyver moments.
Story
While aboard our spaceship, we encountered a blackhole. To avoid it swallowing us (and the rest of the solar system) we docked at a space station harboring antimatter that could destroy the black hole. In order to escape, we needed to destroy the space station and send it into the black hole.
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