Improbable Escapes - Seven Dwarfs Review (Live Avatar)

 

Hi all

In June 2021, my wife, daughters and I played Improbable Escapes’ Seven Dwarfs room.  The room is a live avatar experience and Improbable Escapes is based in Canada.  The Seven Dwarfs room was one that came highly recommended and it didn’t disappoint.

Seven Dwarfs was my 190^th escape room experience.  The theme of the room is as follows:

One year has passed since the seven dwarfs helped Snow White defeat the evil queen, and now they’ve retired to a quiet cottage deep in the forest.

But happily ever after is never that easy, and evil is rising once again! The evil queen’s followers plan to use the poison apple to bring about her malevolent return. Snow White has tasked you to destroy the devious fruit once and for all, and rumour has it that the only way to rid the world of its evil is to cast it into the very centre of the earth.

Now it falls to you to save the day. Answer the call, hoist your pickaxe, and prepare to dig deeper than ever before to defeat the evil queen!

Here’s what I thought about Seven Dwarfs:

·         this is a truly beautiful room.  The set design is truly charming and perfect for the theme.  Many aspects of the theming were movie-set quality.  It’s one of those rooms that I would have loved to play in person rather than online;

·         Seven Dwarfs is a live avatar room. Our game master was excellent – he was the right level of helpful and he was really good with our kids and tried to really engage them throughout the experience;

·         the puzzles were all really interesting and logical.  There were some elements that were old school puzzles and others that used really interesting tech (which we all really enjoyed).  As with all online rooms, they are more challenging (in my honest opinion) than the real life versions, given that you are all looking at the same thing at the same time (and cannot split up and attack different puzzles simultaneously).  It really came down to the wire (as there were a lot more puzzles than we had expected).  We only made it out with less than 1 minute to spare;

·         I would describe Seven Dwarfs as a really challenging, family friendly room.  The puzzles were all logical and solvable, but there were a lot of them; and

Seven Dwarfs is a really beautiful room that uses technology well as part of its game design.  The game master was very experienced and easily one of the better game masters we have had to date.  Although it is a family-friendly room and theme, there are a lot of puzzles to get through which might be challenging for newer players (it certainly was for our team of 2 adults and 2 kids). 

Where:                        Virtual room (online)

Virtual Room Type:    Live Avatar

Duration:                    60 minutes

Themes:                     6 live avatar rooms

Cost:                           $30CAD per player

Overall Rating:          A beautiful, family-friendly but challenging live avatar room

More details:             https://improbableescapes.com/seven-dwarfs-options/#seven-online