Escape Chambers Des Moines

I’ve done several escape rooms and this one was by far the worst. If you want to just waist your money definitely come here. We went last night and got screwed out of our money. We had the whole thing figured out. Entered the right stuff but nothing would work. After we ran out of time, we came out and complained. The lady behind the counter refused to explain anything, just wanted us to sign a receipt. We refused to sign it until someone could show us what we did wrong. Finally some other lady came in. Went into the room by herself, we were not allowed we were told to stay where we are, and after 10 minutes she said everything works fine. We went into the room and turns out everything worked then. Weird. Save your money, frustration, and time

Oct 28, 2024

Took my wife for our 1st ever escape room for our 24th anniversary. We didn't end up escaping. But we still had an AMAZING and FUN time! We will definitely be going back.

Aug 24, 2024

Super disappointed. I've been to two other escape rooms. Both went above and beyond with decor and interactions. Escape chambers didn't even try and charged $35 a person. Hot glued props with half the items in the room not even relevant to the end of the game. The size of the escape room was smaller than a bedroom. I thought i was locked in a prison cell with some fake potion bottles on shelves. Finished in 30 minutes with help from the baby monitor guide. Looked at my girlfriend at the end and couldn't believe it was over. Do not waste your time with the escape room.

Apr 20, 2024

This was very disappointing and overpriced. We did the “hardest” one and it was a room full of shelves with superglued bottles on it. Many props were irrelevant to the game and the room was super small, lacking decor. $70 for two people to get a hint through a baby monitor that can’t stay on the wall? The directions were very misleading and we could barely understand them from the game master at the beginning as she talked so quickly, almost as if she couldn’t wait to get back to her front desk. We finished with 30 minutes left and expected there to be more. We needed confirmation that we were done. Extremely disappointed, and we won’t be coming back. Better way to spend $35 per person. Do yourself a favor and hire a 10 year old to come up with a better puzzle in your basement and more professional looking set ups. I felt scammed at the end of it. If I could give it 0 stars I would.

Apr 20, 2024

We came here as 1st time escape room participants. It is in the basement of the building. The guy who greeted us was nice and informative. My friend picked the spy scenario which ended up being the hardest one there. We were not able to complete it but it was a lot of fun and we would go back and do it again. The cost was pretty reasonable at $35 a person. The only complaint we had was that the entry door to the escape room told us to go to a different door which was locked. It made us late to our session. But overall it was fun and worth it for us.

Feb 07, 2024