Escape Oakland

Had a very fun experience! Staff was very friendly. Can’t wait to go back and try other rooms!

MelissaFebruary 25, 2021

Spy Game

San Francisco

Great puzzles and fun imaginative rooms!

JonathanJanuary 16, 2021

Spy Game

San Francisco

I did Escape Oakland's newest room, The Spy Game, today and it was very challenging but also quite fun. It's their toughest room, with an 8-10% escape rate. (There seems to have been some misinformation on here stemming from another reviewer's description of the room difficulties based on their subjective opinion, but the website posts the % escape rates for each room.)

I'd recommend The Spy Game for groups of experienced escape roomers. If your team has first-timers, you might want to consider one of their easier rooms instead. I think first-timers might feel a little frustrated by this one. It's not the flashiest room, but there are a ton of puzzles to chew on and lot of variety in types of puzzles. I think this is a great room to try if you're someone who is really in it for the puzzles and a good challenge. I'm not as into rooms that have Hollywood-movie-set-esque decorations but easy puzzles, so I'm glad I chose this one.

I was on the fence about giving them a 4 or a 5, but settled on 5 because they were patient with my team after we didn't escape the room in time. In addition to giving us like 10 minutes extra, they were nice about one of the guys who kept trying to continue to solve stuff when they were explaining the clues to us, etc.

My general feeling is that even though they are relatively new and don't have the super fancy bells and whistles of some of the larger and more established escape room companies, they seem dedicated to trying to make solid puzzles/rooms. I think they'll continue to improve their rooms and the experience overall.

Jennifer L.April 23, 2020

Spy Game

San Francisco

What an adventure! We had a blast, and I can't wait to go back! "The Bunker" was full of surprises, and it was perfect for our group of friends. We were able to escape from the room with a few clues.

The location is perfect with a lot of street parking and walking distance to the bart station.

The host was awesome! She explained all rules to us as for some of us it was first escape room. Thanks a lot!!!

SergeySeptember 26, 2019

The Bunker

San Francisco

Fantastic fun and more to come! We will return as soon as possible to do the other rooms.

Room: Ex Machina

Overall: Wonderful, friendly, and open customer service, Intriguing premise and unique "in world" tech and appropriately "authentic" props for immersion. Not too linear but becomes more linear as you near the finale. Enjoyable, relatively non-complicated tech and puzzles. The puzzles are strong and logical but certainly not too easy. No tedious task "puzzles" that can waste time.

Outcome: We didn't make it but came close by being in the home stretch of the last set of challenges

Time: Visited during soft opening several weeks ago; owner was extremely open and honest with us about the additional challenges that this may entail but it did not take away from the wonderful experience in the least. Should only get even better and better.

Team: 4 - 2 adults and 2 teens - we've done 6 escapes rooms previously

Difficulty: This was a challenging room for us but not impossible; This would be very challenging to first timers.

ErikSeptember 8, 2019

The Alchemist

San Francisco

This place is awesome! I played 2 of their 4 games, Ex Machina and their newest game the society. Both had super immersive set design, creative stories and cool techy puzzles. There aren't a lot of escape room options in the east bay, so I'm super glad this place opened!

Monica S.August 5, 2019

The Alchemist

San Francisco