Survive The Night: Cursed of Crooked Creek - Hunter / Exorcist
| 15 Kodiak Crescent #5, North York | |
| 60 Minutes Each | |
| 4-5 players | |
| $26.55 per person – $4 discount when playing 2 or more mission | |
| Unlimited hints | |
| Escape Game Canada | |
| (416) 633-6868 |
WE FINALLY GOT TO TRY THIS PLACE! Where do I even begin with this!? Let's start off by saying this isn't your typical escape rooms. If you're looking for your standard room escape this might not be your cup of tea. With that being said let me break it down for you all - because so far this facility has hit the number one spot!
Pre-Room Experience: As you guys may or may not know, Survive the Night has now been taking over by Escape Games Canada. Escape Games Canada was pretty much the one that started off my addict for these games. After a year of waiting we finally got a chance to try this facility out and of course we played both "paths" as the drive was way too long. The facility wasn't hard to find, but can be easily missed. As usual we pulled up to a sketchy looking empty plaza (from experience you know these are the good stuff). The lobby was spacious, but unfortunately they didn't have any board games or entertainment while waiting. We were an hour early so luckily one of us had a board game in his car. The staff were friendly and just like Escape Games Canada, when you play one or more games, you would get a discount.
Room Quality: Here is where it begins! When the time finally came my team and another group of people were led into an area where we watched the introduction video. Here's when I finally realized the whole concept of this facility was completely different from what I had in mind. I always pictured this facility to be a horror themed escape room, but boy was I wrong. Basically there were no rooms to escape from. Each team had a lantern and a path to follow. Each path had 4-5 quests (I can't remember the actual quest number). These quests were basically the "rooms", which I will get into later. So how it works, instead of a room it was more so like a maze in which we walk around to find our quests. Once we found our quest and enter that "room" we will have a certain time to finish it. The quality of it all was JUST AMAZING! The theme is a village being haunted and you're trying to cure it. There's a villager in this maze that's supposedly there to help you but OMG the terror he left me is a whole different story. You can really tell the amount of time and effort put into this place. A+ to them seriously!
Pre-Room Experience: As you guys may or may not know, Survive the Night has now been taking over by Escape Games Canada. Escape Games Canada was pretty much the one that started off my addict for these games. After a year of waiting we finally got a chance to try this facility out and of course we played both "paths" as the drive was way too long. The facility wasn't hard to find, but can be easily missed. As usual we pulled up to a sketchy looking empty plaza (from experience you know these are the good stuff). The lobby was spacious, but unfortunately they didn't have any board games or entertainment while waiting. We were an hour early so luckily one of us had a board game in his car. The staff were friendly and just like Escape Games Canada, when you play one or more games, you would get a discount.
Room Quality: Here is where it begins! When the time finally came my team and another group of people were led into an area where we watched the introduction video. Here's when I finally realized the whole concept of this facility was completely different from what I had in mind. I always pictured this facility to be a horror themed escape room, but boy was I wrong. Basically there were no rooms to escape from. Each team had a lantern and a path to follow. Each path had 4-5 quests (I can't remember the actual quest number). These quests were basically the "rooms", which I will get into later. So how it works, instead of a room it was more so like a maze in which we walk around to find our quests. Once we found our quest and enter that "room" we will have a certain time to finish it. The quality of it all was JUST AMAZING! The theme is a village being haunted and you're trying to cure it. There's a villager in this maze that's supposedly there to help you but OMG the terror he left me is a whole different story. You can really tell the amount of time and effort put into this place. A+ to them seriously!
Puzzle Design: Mind blown - that's how I would describe their puzzle design. Given the fact that this isn't your typical escape room their puzzles were just amazing. I have to say though I don't remember exactly which puzzle belonged to which path (as we played both one after another), but all the puzzles were top notch! I don't want to spoil too much but there are 3 quests that really stood out to me. The first one was our very first quest so it did take us a few minutes to figure out what we were doing as it was very different. I'm not sure how many of you have played RPG games. In those games there's always a blacksmith that equipped your weapons... well that's exactly our first quest. I'm not sure how they did it or how to explain this, but wow it was just so cool! I really don't know how to put this experience into words, but hopefully you can visualize an RPG game and how you're trying to make weapons. They had these brick looking things, a fake fire place and hammers for you to "craft" gold, silver or bronze. IT WAS SO FREAKEN COOL! Second quest that stood out to me was one that we've seen before BUT the quality of it completely topped the notch. As you may or may not experience a lot of escape rooms asking you to arrange something to a certain order but x cannot be before y and y is > z. (LOL does that make sense to any of you?). Basically it was a logic puzzle, but the only thing that caught my attention was the quality of the props! IT WAS SO HIGH END (trust). Last quest (my favourite one) was one that I personally found the most fun. I'm not sure how many of you have played "Cooking MaMa" before, but that was exactly the experience. It was a speed challenge and really needed teamwork!
Overall: This is probably the hardest review I have typed out! There's just so much to say about this facility, but at the same time I don't really know how to put it all into words. If I were to explain each and every quest this post will probably be crazy long. The experience was amazing, the quality was A+ and the staff were professional. As mentioned earlier there is a "villager" that wanders around the village and is there to help you when you are in need. Don't picture a friendly looking village. He's in a dark robe with a creepy mask. The village itself is very dark and creepy looking. There are a lot of dead corners and yes, he is also there to scare the shit out of you. In all honesty, he was probably having the time of his life scaring me as I pretty much got creeped out by him THE WHOLE NIGHT. However, with that being said, Thank You for making the experience so much more fun! I would definitely recommend this facility as it has ranked number 1 on my list at the moment.
Happy Escaping!
