Outerground Escape Rooms - Jason's Legacy Review (The Netherlands)

 

Hi everyone

The ninth room on our May/June 2024 child-free trip to Holland was Jason’s Legacy at OuterGround Escape Rooms in Rijswijk, which is about 5km south of the centre of The Hague.

I had heard about OuterGround from their Jason’s Curse room, which was a popular earlier room. We learned from our chat with the game master after our experience that that earlier room had, in real life, burned to the ground. They then decided to build a new room, Jason’s Legacy, which is the room we played.

Jason’s Legacy was our 299^th escape room and here is what I thought: 

• this room is really impressive. As with many rooms in both The Netherlands and across the world, the experience has been constructed inside a large warehouse in an industrial area. What is most impressive with Jason’s Legacy is that they have constructed a free-standing, two storey house! I don’t mean a façade or a studio set of a two storey house – it’s an actual, fully constructed house. Every space feels just like you would expect an old scary house to feel like as well;
• the theming is very impressive. All of the spaces made sense and the experience had a really nice flow throughout;
• there is a VERY short character interaction at the very beginning of the experience. I would describe Jason’s Legacy as one of the scarier rooms that we played on this trip, but compared to Athens/Spain rooms it wasn’t overly scary at all. We also played with 4 players, which made it much less scary (given that the ‘courage tests’ were executed in the safety of a duo, not solo). Jason’s Legacy is scary, but it is more about the darkness/audio/vibe than about being chased by characters. In fact, I can only recall a couple of minor jump scares;
• there are some really nice puzzles in Jason’s Legacy, including hunt/seek fun (which slowed us down a little at the beginning). Overall I would describe the puzzles as largely medium-level difficulty – challenging and fun to solve but not impossibly difficult. They were all pretty intuitive; and
• after our experience, we sat down with one of the managers to chat about the history of their rooms and escape rooms generally in Europe. We also had drinks with the manager, which we were learning was a pretty common thing in The Netherlands (but I have since learned is pretty unique to The Netherlands).

We all really enjoyed Jason’s Legacy. The most impressive aspect is the pure scale of the two storey house that they have constructed. It really is phenomenal. The theming and quality of puzzles were all first rate too. Jason’s Legacy debuted at #71 on the TERPECA list and in 2024 sits at #131. It is far better than many other rooms I have played in the top 100, so I highly recommend checking it out.

Where:                 Diepenhorstlaan 11c, 2288 EW Rijswijk

Duration:            75 minutes

Themes:              5 themes

TERPECA:          #131 in 2024 (formerly #71)

Price:                    165€ per team of 4

Overall Rating:     They built a full 2 storey house!

More details:        https://www.outerground.com/en/jasons-legacy/