Eight people is a reasonable amount of players for escape rooms. Everyone will find something to do: strategizing, taking charge, searching for clues, solving puzzles, cheering the team on, counting down the minutes, wandering from room to room or chatting up the game master. Book one of the rooms in Grand Rapids and find out what will your contribution be!
Was not a good experience whatsoever, the floors were sticky and one of the clues was left opened. The rooms were small and the door was between them was very small. The room was not maintained well
Stephen Eifert
Worst 25$ I’ve spend. I have tried an escape room another place before and this was no where near in quality, originality or fun. Not only did we have to share a room with a group of strangers, we didn’t get a background story as we were supposed to stated on the website, and we simply got bored! This is not how an escape room should be! Wouldn’t recommend this to anyone.
Lou
Poor design, poor upkeep, no feedback, to many red herrings.
Mark Smith
Room's floor was sticky (similar to a cheap poorly kept movie theater), LED lighting was broken in multiple parts of the room.
Key hide location was JUNK! No indication it was there, they expect you to slide your arm into dark areas to find it (with the poor upkeep I did not do it until they gave me hint about it because there were already some sharp metal areas where screws were not fully attached.
Also puzzles had ZERO feedback. One area you flip dozens of switches, push buttons, and attach cables. However there is ZERO feedback unless you get ALL parts correct... then a door opens... however it is 30 feet away in another room so you do not even know it opened unless you happen to walk over there.
TERRIBLE design of the backdoor inside server cabinent.
Please.. Please... provide blacklight in first room... paint "door, here.... slide to left to open" in UV paint thus people would know the thing exists... we spent 10 minutes climbing around poking at the totally unrelated power cables inside the cabinet until the came master finally told us a door was in there.
This place is absolutely unbelievable. From attention to detail in the aesthetic design to the actual challenges presented, it is top notch. Far exceeds my experience at other escape rooms, and by a wide margin. I will be recommending The Ruse to everyone I know, and will definitely be coming back again soon!
Tom
Awesome experience! The Ruse is by far the best escape room I have ever done!
Ashley
Fantastic room! We have done many rooms and this is definitely one of the best!
Davis
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