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Sometimes you don't gel with a game and you struggle to make any meaningful progress and you have to take your failure on the chin. This might have been one of those times but it's been a while since we had an escape room experience that was this dispiriting. We started off in a gloomy corridor which I generally find is used to hide a lack of effort in set dressing. Some basic but impressively illogical puzzles followed in a fairly linear fashion. We were also told off for passing into the second part of the room through a huge gap that seemed designed for that purpose. The sort of final straw was spending 20 minutes trying to match the colours of similar shades of a what seeemed to be very old discoloured liquids in bottles to buttons on a keypad as interpreted by 4 colour blind eyes in near darkness. Basically, all puzzles required hints so, with 20 mins to go we simply left as a more unsatisfying experience was difficult to imagine at that point. Having done over 100 escape rooms all around Europe, this was our first that we left before the end and the first that we would rather have not done at all.

It's great to play a fantastic game that's really well hosted. Very original use of the space and we'll be back to play the next game as soon as we are anywhere near Macclesfield. Real challenge but so much fun to be had! Allows non-linear play which enables the whole team to be involved. Proper great!

Loved this - one of the few games in Athens not based around actors jumping out at you to freak you out. Great puzzles - logical, original and challenging. Thankfully my wife had her thinking head on or else we'd have failed as it is a proper game that doesn't make it easy. Located in a suburb - a short walk from Peristeri metro stop. We will be back to do the other games next time we are in Athens later this year. Thank you!

We did the other two Paradox games a couple of years back on our last trip to Athens but wanted to complete the set on a quick break back in the city. So glad we did. We aren't fans of the horrific actor-based jump scare games that Athens abounds in so it was such a joy to spend so long in a single narrative that challenged our brains and wasn't based around jump scares. It flows, it's tricky, it's logical, it twists and it's brilliant - make sure you do it when you're nearby. 

We've played a decent amount of escape games so finding one like this is such a treat. From the moment we walked in to the amazing building we were in the experience. Great scene-setting and then we were ushered into a room that bore little resemblance to any other games we've played. The high points were the consistently high logical nature of all the puzzles, the mix of puzzle types, the originality of the design and the non-linearity of the game allowing us to move back and forth without pinch points. The only real low point is that at the moment this is their only game and that's a real shame because if they can make a game as ingenious, imaginative and fun as this, they really should be making more of them.