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Quick Facts:

City/Area: Markham

Escape Length: 60 Minutes

Players: 4-8

Cost: $27 Weekday

         $30 Weekend

The Dark Altar

Creativity: ✭✭✭✭✬ 4.3

     Novel: 4.5

     Comprehension: 4.0

     Surprises: 4.5

Puzzles: ✭✭✭✭✬ 4.5

     Challenge: 5.0

     Logic: 4.5

     Abstract: 4.0

Omescape’s newest room as of mid-January in 2015, provides players with quite the thrill. This multi-room, 60-minute escape combines thematic props, wall decorations and fun puzzles to form a very entertaining and immersive environment. The transitions between rooms are unique, abundant and surprising. The puzzles are almost all logic based, requiring very little prior knowledge. There is a dark, creepiness to the theme of ancient gods and the lust for power, which is portrayed well by Omescape. Unfortunately my team was too focused on not using hints and we spent too much time on one of the earlier puzzles, so we ran out of time at the end. We were so close! Although we didn't escape, all of the puzzles were definitely solvable. Like "The Kingdom of Cats", this room was a lot of fun! Omescape continues to perform as one of the premier room escape establishments in the GTA! Minor updates have been made, tweaking the puzzles to be more effective!

Edited by Evan on April 7, 2015

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