House of Tales

Finally! After so much time I finally have gone abroad to see some escape rooms. Well… one escape room. Still counts though. The Executioner was one of the highly recommended Berlin games. Since The Room was closed during our trip, the choice was easy. The expectations were high since I had no comparison yet. Were they met? How did it go and did we like it?

I would like to start off this review with the most positive thing in the whole experience, and I mean our Game Master. She did a great job and interactions with her were just fun. I don’t usually think about GMs too much, so the service really must have been great.

So, what’s next? The atmosphere and the plot. How do they come? When it comes to plot it is the classical, escape room plot I have experienced. That means basically none. However, the scenography was very nice, so overall the room has a great feeling to it.

Sadly, I cannot say the same when it comes to puzzles. Although most of them were very logical and some of them really satisfying, unfortunately, some of them were not as logical as I would wish. There was one element that for us had no sense after we thought about it again. There was no clue that one element should be paired with the second. And in another puzzle, we felt that some outside knowledge was very useful. Although it was very basic, we completely feel that it is a forgettable one. Maybe we missed the clue, however, it sticks out.

After all, we had great fun. Was it something new that completely changed our minds? Definitely not. Did it have noticeable flaws? Yes. Did we have good fun? Hell yeah! I cannot wait to come back to Berlin and this time to try some more games. Thank you for the fun and see you next time!

One of the worst rooms I have visited. Now I noticed that only has two reviews - why it's so highly ranked. Not worth its price, there is no comparison to rooms placed in Poland.

Der größte Vorteil sind die Leute, die da arbeiten - sehr nett und helfen immer gerne! Sie schaffen einen guten Platz zusammen. Der Rätselraum ist in Ordnung, ich habe aber in besseren gespielt. Ein Rätsel bleibt für mich bis heute unklar, obwohl es uns erklärt wurde. Trotzdem würde ich da noch gerne kommen und andere Spiele selbst prüfen!

Schöne Einrichtung spielt da die bedeutende Rolle *_* Ich bin bis jetzt überrascht! Ich freu mich, dass es hier noch mehr Räume gibt, wir kommen bestimmt wieder

That was really challenging. Very hard puzzles, not for beginners. But I had fun, even without any big plot-surprise.