New Mexico Escape Room

New Mexico escape rooms were super fun! So we did a few of the rooms there in varying difficulty levels and I'll say that Blackwell manor was probably my favorite one. It was spooky but at the same time it was possible for us to complete. The people I went with were a bit terrified but I was just fine; I like a good scare here and there. The puzzles were interesting and kept us mentally alert the whole time. I can't really ruin the surprise and say too much about it but I'll just say this, expect sometimes that the key to the puzzle is where you least expected it :) The staff was super friendly and we enjoyed the experience very much.

I've been wanting to do an escape room with my partner for a while now and last month we were able to visit New Mexico Escape Room and had a great time. I've been to a handful of escape room experiences around the country and hands down this was the most immersive experience yet. We completed Super Secret this time around and I thought the puzzles were very unique. Rowan was a great game master and helped us out just enough when we got stumped. We'll be back in a couple weeks to try our luck with Blackwell Manor!

I love it when an experience exceeds your expectations. It wasn't predictable, the clues weren't obvious, and that's what made it so much fun!!! We chose "The Cabin 2.0 - Simon Says Die" *cue sinister laughter* ~ It was an eerie feeling simulating getting into the mind of a serial killer...A little over six years we first did the original "Cabin" and now we tried the 2.0 Simon Says Die experience in which the general synopsis is this: you play the lead detective on a murder case that leads you to "the cabin" that is believed your suspect uses as his hideaway. You've only got 60 minutes to gather clues and identify the killer's identity, find the location of the body(ies), & try figure out his who his next victim is, all before the killer returns!It was hard to shake the genuine panicky sensation rising within while trying to decipher the cryptic rantings of a sociopath! And the atmosphere was authentically seedy and creepy!!! Bizarre messages, mysterious codes and locks, concealed panels, and the nagging sense of desperation as the clock ticks down.THIS WAS AWESOME!!! What a unique, fast paced and exciting way to spend time with your friends, your significant other, or as a team building event. We definitely plan to return and try one of the other rooms.So what was our fate, you ask? Dead meat. Crikey we were so close, down to the last clue, but ultimately, we did not finish before the killer returned and by now we have likely been sliced and diced into a hundred gruesome pieces - the end.

I love escape rooms. I did my first escape room at their old location years ago and loved it! Now they have new rooms and the same quality I appreciated from the beginning. Their rooms are very well done. If you're new I'd recommend starting with Duel at Dusk. Then move on from there. The details in each room are awesome and everything is always reset perfectly. (I've had troubles with other locations forgetting to reset everything in the room) If you're a beginner or expert there are multiple rooms here that will keep you coming back! Now go escape!

One of the best parts of New Mexico has to be Taos and the Enchanted Circle, but when the El Salto del Agua Waterfall is dry, Hotel La Fonda is closed for renovation and you've bought all the souvenirs you need for the next three vacations, it is a two-hour drive to possibly one of the most well-located escape rooms in all of the contiguous United States! A couple of quick turns right off I-25 in Albuquerque led us to New Mexico Escape Rooms, located in a business complex, where parking is both plentiful and free. We got there at the start of the summer heatwave, so the huge air-conditioned lobby with its well-stocked vending machine with a good variety of drinks was very welcome. There is also a nice merchandise corner with tee-shirts, caps and boxed puzzles for sale, as well as table games to keep you busy while waiting for your game to start. The unisex toilets were super-clean: two private rooms within the giant lobby. We got in a whole hour earlier than anticipated, and they were pretty accommodating in letting us play once the group before us was done.Our game, Duel at Dusk, was booked as we were driving from Taos to Albuquerque - such is the wonder of the Internet Age - and Joel was our host. Our game cost about a third of what we paid per person in Frisco (previously reviewed)!New Mexico Escape Rooms is actually a humongous warehouse sized to fit each of their games, and Duel at Dusk Room was designed for groups of 2-4, so it was perfect for date night - or, as it happened, date morning! Better four, doable with two smarter than us, can do six, maybe. It's a spacious room - AND, it is the first room we have ever been into with only saloon doors separating the experience from reality.Our game started with a cartoon, very well drawn and super cute, which also gave us the first clue to what happened the night before: all we had to do was to find our gun and stuff in order to honour a gun duel with a mysterious stranger which we accepted after a lot of carousing, and which would take place at dusk, so we could leave town with our belt buckles intact.This task-based challenge was very immersive with sound and light effects: we would call it mid-tech, since there were no locks and things just opened. The room was brightly lit, so we could see the very well done and in-theme décor and there were no special needs requirements. Anyone can do this room without bending over.The open-door concept was very refreshing, and it was to their credit that we did not hear the other games being played at all while we were playing ours. The puzzles were actually easy to linear, and pretty immersive, but we did need to keep good track of the clue before. Another very original and different thing they did was with the hint system where the decision as to when we need a hint was not in our hands: it was the game master who decided when we could use the hint. This works okay as long as we had a good game master who was actually attentive, which, happily, Joel was - even though he jinxed us when he told us it would be absolutely no problem finishing the game with just the two of us - only for us to not finish the game with one puzzle left! Joel did show us the final reveal and walk us through the last puzzle - we were so close! - and did give a card for 10% off our next game, which we are so bummed to be able to take advantage of because they have four more rooms that look really interesting.The things that would have made this experience perfect (other than solving the last puzzle!) are if we had been allowed to take our photo in the room or with props outside, and / or if they were able to show the group name and time on the monitor for photos, like they do at The Room in Wichita (previously reviewed). They used to have signs, which we would have liked but took them away because too much time was taken in choosing the right ones!New Mexico Escape Rooms is close to a whole bunch of different interesting restaurants, and suffice it to say, had we five weekends in Albuquerque, we would have tried all their rooms. It is the best pit stop anyone travelling the I-25 can make and such a respite from the unrelenting heat this summer! The best reason to head back that way!

Meh.. this place wasn't great imo. We did the Blackwell Manor one and it was all over the place. It was too dark, making it really hard to see and I thought the jump scares were kinda cheap... although these things could've been looked over had the game been well made.... It was never clear to anyone in the group what the goal was at any given point. Super confusing. This feels like a cash-grab, jumping on the band-wagon kind of place. A completely different experience to my first escape room just a few weeks ago at another establishment. But to each their own I suppose.

I've been to ~20 escape rooms in the US, and this is easily top 3, possibly the best, of all the ones I've done. Me and my other two escape room aficionados picked their hardest puzzle, Nefertari's Tomb, and were amazed by the immersion, storytelling, and puzzle variety of the room. This is not a office-space-with-a-few-locks kind of place; New Mexico Escape Room is serious about delivering a high quality escape room experience.This was the first room I've ever lost, both because this one is very hard and because we only had 3 people. If you're newer to escape rooms, play one of their other rooms, and if you're experienced, definitely bring a group of 4+. Either way, I wholly recommend checking this place out.

The rooms here are detailed, immersive, and well thought out. Word of advice though: pay attention to the fear rating. When they say it has a fear rating of 7/10, they mean it.

Best escape room I've visited. We did Bombshell and Nefertari's Tomb. The sets were fun and detailed, the immersion was incredible, and the puzzles were diverse, including a couple types of interaction I haven't seen elsewhere. There were a few little glitches and hiccups-a box unlocked before we solved to trigger it and a pinpad didn't register the (correct) solution the first few times we entered it-but they didn't seriously impact our gameplay.We attempted Nefertari's tomb with just two people, and it was hard (but still fun)! Bombshell was doable with just 2. With both, we had a great time and were very impressed with the experience!

I've done all but two of the rooms at NM Escape Room, and they've all been great. What's especially exciting is they just keep getting better. The quality of the sets and puzzles, especially in their larger McLeod location, is exceptional. You