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| - EDIT: Now that I've tried another escape room, Escape Games (http://www.yelp.ca/biz/escape-games-toronto), I honestly wouldn't consider Esc-It in the same category.
Escape Games actually engineered and built multi-floor rooms with hidden areas and automatic releases. I mean, Esc-It by comparison is very DIY. Post-its. Costco cash box. Dollar store ping pong balls. All the Escape Games props were authentic and none of them felt cheap. I'm sorry, but there is honestly no comparison.
This is $15 (after the 40% Facebook + cash discount; I'm not sure if you have to pay tax) and Escape Games was $22 tax included. I would honestly just save my money and pay the extra $7 for a truly well planned and very impressive escape room experience at Escape Games. I wouldn't consider spending $15 here for a budget escape room.
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I'm not sure if it's just a temporary closure, but I'm glad the "Bedroom Nightmare" escape room is out of commission. It was my first escape room experience and even without anything to compare it to, I could already tell that it was not great.
The clues and the design of the room felt cheap and it's just unclear what you're supposed to be doing. You assume everything is in the room for a reason and in a well-designed room, clues are clear and make sense. It doesn't have to be easy, but it has to be reasonable to a degree.
Without giving anything away, if they ask you to count all the red circles on the wall, a good establishment wouldn't put a dark orange not-quite-perfectly-round-circle-and-therefore-it's-technically-an-oval on the wall and leave that up to interpretation. That's not a clever puzzle. That's just the room designer either not drawing a perfect enough circle or not thinking about how in the context of a puzzle or escape game, the participants will assume everything is done for a reason.
There were other parts of the room and experience that left us scratching our heads about whether it was a mistake or part of the escape. Even when we asked for a clue and the employee came in and quickly turned on the lights, we didn't know whether or not turning on the lights was part of the puzzle (because you don't really have to solve anything) and whether we were supposed to leave the lights on when he left.
As other people said, you can hear other people playing in the other rooms.
In general, I feel like the room was cheap (puzzles and decorations alike) and clearly not very well thought out. I wouldn't recommend this place.
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