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Chapter 1: The Basement

Very positive (360 ratings)

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Will you escape Edward's basement? You and your friends have been kidnapped by Edward Tandy -- a cannibalistic serial killer with a fine taste for unique electronics, taxidermy, and of course human flesh. He has created a sick and twisted game of sorts in his deceased mother's home. He hopes to weed out the unintelligent and find those who are "worthy of escaping" by his late mother's standards. In THE BASEMENT, you and your team will have to employ keen communication skills, a finely tuned organizational prowess, and a general ability to keep your $h!t together under pressure if you want to survive. This is what we like to call a "funnel puzzle" where you will find numerous items and clues throughout the room. These items all come together to orchestrate your escape.

  • 1-10
  • 45 mins
  • Hard
  • Scary

Awards

Ratings

All ratings (360)

Very positive

Gameplay
Very positive
Atmosphere
Very positive
Customer service
Very positive

Reviews

@jessica34
jessica34

136 escape rooms

This room is really tough to rate, because the actual game is pretty good, decent puzzles though it’s really just a lot of search puzzles. I really really didn’t like the live actor, because she became a part of the team, but a pushy overly hinting member of the team that honestly kinda of ruined the experience. But it’s hard to really poorly rate the room, because things were still better than your average escape room. But it was agreed upon by all 6 of us that it was by far the worst at The Basement.

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Gameplay

Ehhh, very non linear and a lot of stuff presented at once, but not used for a while. So, not much “flow”. Shows it’s age a good bit, still fun though.

Atmosphere

Fairly impressive, it more or less looked like a basement nowhere near their most impressive room though.

Customer service

GM was great, the actor was way overly pushy with hints, she basically walked us through the room, which was very frustrating.

Particularly interesting or different

No

Story

The story is well integrated, throughout all their rooms, which is one of the basement’s strength.

Difficulty

Medium

Game tech

Mechanical

Ideal number of players

4

Scary

Scary

Minimum age

10

Was anything broken?

No

Live actors

Yes

Physically active

Not at all

Easy to find location

No

Parking

Medium

Aug 3, 2023 | Experienced Aug 3, 2023
@taylorelizabeth
taylorelizabeth

19 escape rooms

We had a lot of fun in this room and our actor was the best! We liked it so much that we failed the first time and came back to win!

Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Live actors

Yes

Jul 9, 2023
@carrie43
carrie43

23 escape rooms

We did the dead and breakfast package where you get to do all 4 escape rooms back to back. This worked for us since our team loves out of area. This one in particular was pretty scary and had challenging puzzles. It also was pretty realistic since it included a live actor.

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Gameplay

Scary and immersive

Atmosphere

Well acted and challenging puzzles

Customer service

Awesome staff. We did the dead and breakfast package where you get to do all 4 escape rooms back to back. This worked for us since our team loves out of area.

Minimum age

14

Mar 7, 2023 | Experienced Mar 7, 2023
@catherine87
catherine87

44 escape rooms

𓆜𓋘𓄁 𓊛𓇙𓋸𓌤𓌥 𓌦 𓅐𓆢 𓆣 𓀉𓆤 𓆥 𓅑𓆘 𓆙 𓅒𓄙 𓄚 𓄛 𓅓𓃺 𓃻 𓅔 𓅕 𓃕 𓃖 𓃗 𓎷 𓄁𓎸𓅖 𓅽 𓅾 𓅿𓅗 𓅘 𓇆 𓇇𓅙 𓅚 𓁵 𓁶𓂵 𓂶𓃝𓋲 𓋳𓀬 𓅛𓁃 𓂺𓅜 �𓅝𓃄 �𓄁𓅞𓂙 𓅟𓂿 𓆜𓋘𓄁 𓊛𓇙𓋸𓌤𓌥 𓌦 𓅐𓆢 𓆣 𓀉𓆤 𓆥 𓅑𓆘 𓆙 𓅒𓄙 𓄚 𓄛 𓅓𓃺 𓃻 𓅔 𓅕 𓃕 𓃖 𓃗 𓎷 𓄁𓎸𓅖 𓅽 𓅾 𓅿𓅗 𓅘 𓇆 𓇇𓅙 𓅚 𓁵 𓁶𓂵 𓂶𓃝𓋲 𓋳𓀬 𓅛𓁃 𓂺𓅜 𓂨𓅝𓃄 𓄁𓅞𓂙 𓅟𓂿

Dec 19, 2022
@padillajessica
padillajessica

94 escape rooms

𓆜𓋘𓄁 𓊛𓇙𓋸𓌤𓌥 𓌦 𓅐𓆢 𓆣 𓀉𓆤 𓆥 𓅑𓆘 𓆙 𓅒𓄙 𓄚 𓄛 𓅓𓃺 𓃻 𓅔 𓅕 𓃕 𓃖 𓃗 𓎷 𓄁𓎸𓅖 𓅽 𓅾 𓅿𓅗 𓅘 𓇆 𓇇𓅙 𓅚 𓁵 𓁶𓂵 𓂶𓃝𓋲 𓋳𓀬 𓅛𓁃 𓂺𓅜 �𓅝𓃄 �𓄁𓅞𓂙 𓅟𓂿 𓆜𓋘𓄁 𓊛𓇙𓋸𓌤𓌥 𓌦 𓅐𓆢 𓆣 𓀉𓆤 𓆥 𓅑𓆘 𓆙 𓅒𓄙 𓄚 𓄛 𓅓𓃺 𓃻 𓅔 𓅕 𓃕 𓃖 𓃗 𓎷 𓄁𓎸𓅖 𓅽 𓅾 𓅿𓅗 𓅘 𓇆 𓇇𓅙 𓅚 𓁵 𓁶𓂵 𓂶𓃝𓋲 𓋳𓀬 𓅛𓁃 𓂺𓅜 𓂨𓅝𓃄 𓄁𓅞𓂙 𓅟𓂿

Jan 1, 2023 | Experienced Dec 16, 2022

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williamdrake

46 escape rooms

My first escape room experience. It was great

Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Live actors

Yes

Nov 21, 2022
@karen36
karen36

90 escape rooms

Man oh man. This room. I almost quit before we even got in. I was so scared. This is for sure the scariest room here. But not tooooo bad. My recommendation for this room is to tear it up and pay attention lol! Great decor and loved our actor!

Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Physically active

Somewhat

Oct 22, 2022
@grosscody
grosscody

66 escape rooms

Game was a good intro to the story. The game moves fast due to it being 45 min. I did like the actor that was in it, he made the experience more fun and interesting. It was not as scary as I thought it would be. The puzzles were not as difficult but were a lot to do in such little time. If we had one more person, maybe it would have gone more quickly. All in all It was a good and exciting experience. The Gamemasters were cute in trying to do a cute new introduction for us. We appreciated it and they were also very nice. I am excited to try the last two rooms.

Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Particularly interesting or different

Yes

Story
Difficulty

Hard

Ideal number of players

4

Scary

Scary

Was anything broken?

No

Live actors

Yes

Physically active

Not at all

Easy to find location

Yes

Parking

Medium

Oct 2, 2022
@mathisashley
mathisashley

118 escape rooms

I have played the Basement five times. I have gotten out twice. The last time was about two years ago. They will change it up if you have played it before to slightly different puzzles. The live actors are fantastic and the room is very well done. My only issue is that it seems l you collect puzzle pieces and some of which don’t go with the theme and there is not much direction of where to go or what to do. I get the premise which is great but there are some puzzles that just don’t make a lot of sense. This game has a creepy feel and maybe one jump scare if you aren’t expecting it but if you get a chance play here. Play all four rooms in succession they are fantastic

Gameplay

Gameplay was fun but seemed like more of a puzzle collection then a solving to escape.

Atmosphere

Love the atmosphere. GMs were great on several different occasions

Customer service
Was anything broken?

No

Sep 11, 2022

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