Choose one of the 48 escape rooms available in and around San Jose! Escape rooms are perfect for any occasion: a night out with friends, a date, a birthday celebration or a team-building activity. Search for clues, solve puzzles and work together to uncover the mystery – it’s time you escaped the room!
This is a "revolving-door" style escape room. Your team gets five minutes in a small room with a single puzzle. After five minutes, you're moved to another room regardless of whether you've solved your puzzle or not. There are four rooms total, and you get two chances to solve each room. That means you have a total of ten minutes in each room. If you fail to solve a room after your second try, you'll be unable to escape.
The revolving door style lets it boast an impressive player count (24 players?), because different teams can use different rooms in parallel without having to see each other. But it's extremely jarring to be moved from one room to another before you've solved a puzzle, to be moved back into a room that you've half-completed after solving three other unrelated puzzles, or to have solved three out of four puzzles and have nothing to do because the schedule constrains you.
And since there's only one puzzle per room, your potentially 6-person team is all crowding around a single task at any given time. Part of the fun of an escape room is the way your group divides to solve different tasks and rejoins to share what they've learned, but that's impossible here since you always have exactly one puzzle in front of you.
The puzzles are fairly simple but fun, the decor is amateurish but flavorful. I'm sure there are many worse rooms in the SJ area, but I know there are many rooms that are much much better.
Three adult children and I visited this escape room. We had been caught up in traffic and were a couple of minutes late and they were very nice to us. We had a great time and barely made it out of there in time.
This place was SO MUCH FUN! We went with a group of 7 to "Welcome to the Afterverse" and love every minute of it. We escaped the room after solving a myriad of various puzzles and would love to do it again. Our game master was awesome and added so much to the experience!
Very pleased with my first escape room experience here at Totem Escape. Our game master, Megan, was a delight and made the whole thing so great for us. We did the Into The Afterverse room. Highly recommend this place!
Played with 5 other friends in Room 2217. I would say this was by far the best escape room I have experienced. Most escape rooms focused on the puzzle and required a good understanding of American culture, they were kind of too hard for people from non-English speaking countries. While Room 2217 gave us a totally different experience via a story, it was so real. The ending was really out of expectation. Highly recommended.
VERY well designed themed stories! I went with 6 friends to the "room 2217" and had really good time~ Good for family and friends to solve interesting problems together.
Ming H.
Escape rooms are taking the United States by storm! The goal of the game is to find a way out of a locked room within the given time limit. Work as a team to solve logical puzzles, uncover clues, and follow the storyline to unravel the mystery. Each riddle brings you one step closer to the ultimate escape! Escape room games are great for a night out with friends, a date, a birthday celebration or a team-building activity in the United States.
