You settle in for a long night’s sleep in your country home in Bedford, NY. After several hours of slumber you awake, confused, to the strange sound of an emergency siren blasting from a speaker above your bed. As you rub your eyes and look around, you realize that nothing in your room looks the same. The furniture is gone and all that is left is strange equipment installed in its place. You get up and look out the new, oddly shaped, window only to discover that you’re aboard a spaceship travelling in the middle of nowhere. Panic and disbelief quickly set in, and your mind races to try to figure out what has just happened…
Aboard the spaceship, everything is written in Russian except the self-destruct sequence, which very clearly indicates that you have 60 minutes to get off the vessel before it is obliterated by an on-board nuclear warhead…
NYC escape the room venues are far more exciting that the old school, pull the correct book on the bookshelf and a wall opens type. For one thing, they are designed by psychologists and ex military strategists. For another, each room costs tens of thousands of dollars to design and build.
The end result? NYC escape games are heart pounding, mind-bending and most importantly, friendship forming
Team Building…
Corporate development 101 suggests that company personnel work better together if they have beaten the odds in a challenge that seemed insurmountable. This concept is not new, and team-building exercises have existed for decades in everything from city treasure hunts to deep wilderness survival games.
Fun for Families
Looking for a way to bring the family closer together? It would be hard to top solving a “life threatening” puzzle. Your NYC escape room experience will also provide great stories for years to come!
Fun for Singles
If you are looking for a place to go with friends or on a date, an escape the room venue offers one very important thing: it will always be very memorable. How many men take their date to an escape room? It used to be zero, but the number still must be low. If you want to win her heart take her someplace that will get her heart pounding!
All great games have three things in common:
I. A Kick Butt Theme Complete with “Danger”
Without a great theme, escape rooms are just boring 3D puzzles. You could get locked in a room filled with ordinary furniture, some pad locked doors and a dozen journals with clues scattered throughout, but what’s the fun in that?!? Gamers want their escape room to have danger!!! Lasers, zombies, federal agents, monsters, vikings and insane asylum inmates await you when you enter your game!
II. (Nearly) impossible Time Limit…
What’s a game without a time limit?!? As the clock ticks down to zero, most games have clues that reveal themselves along the way, making a challenge originally designed for Mensa minds slightly more manageable for the rest of us. (Don’t worry, if you are MENSA qualified, you’ll be operating well ahead of the clues, so you will still be challenged!). If you happen to possess even more modest problem solving skills (like most people), the clues start to come fast and furious to keep you moving.
However…
III. Boom!
If you truly get stuck, then:
- Your spaceship blows up;
- Your speakeasy gets raided by the Feds;
- You become Zombie food at midnight; or
- Your safe-room is overrun by crazies in the insane asylum.
You get the point. Something very bad happens to you and your team!
The Best Escape Room Games in NYC?
With all of that as a backdrop, which venue has the best combination of theme, challenging escape puzzle and supercool ending if you don’t make it? There is one in New York City that we feel is the best of the best.
OMEscape New York
325 W 38th Street, Store #2, New York, NY10018
212-631-7876
OMEscape is a global franchise escape room game that has 42 stores located all over the world. the NYC venue integrates High-tech elements with a fascinating story line to make the game very interactive and innovated. In the game Penitentiary (one of its most well known games) all players will start from 3 different cells and work together to break out of prison! The final element is that players need to cross a laser security system to escape (like Tom Cruise in the movie Mission Impossible). OMEscape has been reported and interviewed by WSJ, NBC, Thomson Reuters, Xinhua News, Sinovision and 7am New York.
NYC escape rooms make the perfect outing for singles, couples, families and corporate teams. They are also extremely popular. If you give it a try you are sure to have fun.
Good luck and godspeed…
