No Exit - Wanted: Dead or Alive Review (Athens)

 

Hi all

The next escape room that we checked out on our November-December 2024 trip to Athens and Spain was Wanted: Dead or Alive at No Exit.

Going into this room, I knew that Wanted: Dead or Alive was a current TERPECA top 100 room (having debuted at number 55 and sitting at 77 at the time that we played it). What I didn’t know at the time was just how joyful this room would be to play.

The story behind the room is that we are looking for the brothers McFailures, well known for their robberies, the worst band of thieves the town of Holy Cow has ever had to deal with.

Wanted: Dead or Alive was our 339^th room to date and here is what I thought:

• the reason why this room is as good as it is, is due largely to the amazing quality of the acting and interaction between players and the actor. Our actor played I think about 7 or 8 characters throughout our experience, all with a level of wit that I suspect is adapted depending on the audience. Some of the elements of the character interactions were stupidly silly, which I loved;

• there was a large number of puzzles to solve throughout the experience. After having played so many jump scare rooms without too many traditional escape room-style puzzles, we really enjoyed using a different part of our brain here;

• the theming of the wild west world that had been built was really strong – perhaps not at the same level as the best-themed rooms in Athens, but still strong and enjoyable.

Overall thoughts

Wanted: Dead or Alive is a room that completely sticks out from the norm in Athens, a city full of horror and scary rooms with live actors chasing you, grabbing you and jump scaring you over and over again. Instead, Wanted: Dead or Alive is a light-hearted, very family-friendly room with an enormous amount of actor interactions. We laughed our way through 90 minutes of fun, which was a really nice relief at the end of a long week of scary rooms.

Where:                          EF. Dedousi 13, Ilioupoli 16346

Duration:                      90 minutes

TERPECA:                   77^th in 2024 (previously 55^th)

Themes:                       6 themes

Overall Rating:            A uniquely comedic room that was a heap of fun!

More details:               https://noexit.gr/rooms/dead-or-alive-en/