Best escape room company in Pittsburgh! Their rooms are really well done and always fun. Our…read morefavorite at this location was Carnegie Millions. Love the Pittsburgh theme!

Moss our Game master was GREAT!!! We were a group of 4 people…read more Our group had a great time. We will be back.

Love the Imaginarium, BUT for the complex clues an hour is WAY too short of a time for 4 people…read more For 200 dollars we definitely did not come close to getting a fair shake for our dollars. An hour and a half to two hours is much more reasonable, affordable and fair. In addition the sound is way too low for people who have hearing deficiencies. I know the idea is to be mysterious, but the sound negatively affected our fun. And the greeter was too soft spoken also, barely audible. When you're excited to play you don't want to miss a beat. I hope someone from the org makes changes.

Very challenging! Rivaled one we did in London. Sadly only got through two rooms (how many were…read morethere in total?!). They gave us hints only when we were really really stuck. Loved it and can't wait to do their other story!!

Went to Puzzle Room Pittsburgh for the first time Saturday. It was easy to book our reservation…read moreonline ahead of time. I specifically chose Puzzle Room because I read online it was good for teenagers and I wanted to take my 14 yo niece and 12 yo nephew. We chose Christmas Countdown. It was really challenging. I was actually surprised how hard the one room was. Speaking of, this is very different from other Escape rooms that I have done as once you solve the puzzle a door opens and leads you into another room with puzzles! It was really fun and stressful - we solved the puzzle with 4 seconds to spare. After we got out my niece and nephew were ready to do another one. We cannot wait to come back and do the Sasquatch puzzle!

What a fun experience!  Thrilling and imaginatively themed Escape Rooms!  They are located right…read moreoutside the city, in Verona.  Checked out the Christmas Countdown themed escape room and it was fun, challenging and magical.  The theme especially this time of year was extra fun.  The puzzles were hard but enjoyable.  It really makes you think and use teamwork to get the clues and puzzles solved.  The owners are so friendly and you can totally tell are very passionate about what they do.  I would highly recommend Puzzle Pittsburgh if you were looking for an escape room around Pittsburgh. They also have Primal Pigment which is a cool way to let your inner creative side out! It's basically an interactive art studio- unwind, throw paint and have fun! This is great for parties and is BYOB! Great stress relief or fun and different activity to check out!

We were not sure what to expect but my sister, my great nephew, and I HAD A BLAST. My sister and I…read moreare in our seventies and our great nephew is in his teens so it was across the age spectrum FUN! Lots of laughs, lots of puzzling, and lots of teamwork. You will not be disappointed. Give it a try

First time here and hope it isn't the last. Me, my wife and two daughters did the Black Widow room…read moreand we all thoroughly enjoyed it. We did not complete the mission but came reasonably close (though not going to lie the clues were necessary to get that far). Game is very well thought out and challenging. Everyone we met there was friendly and helpful. Place is clean and inviting. Would recommend to anyone. No negatives at all.

I was so excited to try my first escape room for my birthday, finding one locally was great!…read more Unfortunately I dont have any great review to share and am happy to share it w the business before sharing publicly. Initially, the room is so bare empty. I expected a little more "interesting atmosphere." Another member of our group has done 4 escape rooms and mentioned this one was a "low budget" model. We didnt receive any input or direction of what to start with, and ended up calling for clues endlessly. When we opened the room w the barrels and called for a clue they told us we went out of order? We weren't supposed to be there yet? The wall cabinet w a keypad was the straw that broke the camels back. 4 or 5 members of our group had entered the code with no luck opening the cabinet. When time expired and the attendant came in the room, she also tried "the same" code several times and the cabinet did not open! Wth? This was obviously a malfunction and the responsibility of Escape Room South, and I believe we should receive a refund. (She offered to give us 5 extra minutes ! Hahaha!) Our group of 7 was fed up and we left.

This escape room was awesome. We did the 2 player game where you were locked in a two compartment…read morecontainer. Kinda like a coffin. It was intimidating at first but there was enough room to move around a bit inside. The puzzles were challenging and fun! I would definitely recommend this place to anyone looking for a great escape room.

Came here for a company game night. When we got there, the…read moreentrance was locked. We called and the guy who answered said "just open the door" and didn't believe us when we said it was locked. He came over and opened the clearly locked door and did not look happy at all. It felt like the employees purposely locked the door so no one could come in because they ALL looked miserable. Pretty much the same setup as any other axe throwing place. Some of the boards were loose so we had to change bays a couple of times and the girl had to drill the planks in a few times as well. Would I come back? Probably not.

Recently, we had a large group of 20 with a reservation for the game show room at 3:15 on a…read moreSaturday afternoon at Playground Dropout. It was slightly challenging to identify the entrance to the business - it's the same as LumberJAxes. The space is huge and mainly dedicated to axe throwing, but there's a large bar with a good selection of beer on draft, some bottles, and some canned cocktails. The gameshow room is off to the side by one of the entrances. Our "host" took our group in and had us split into two teams of 10. Over the course of an hour and a half, we played several rounds of probably 5 or 6 different games. The host was fun and energetic, doing her best to keep everyone engaged and involved. This was a fun and unique experience priced at $40/pp. They have tons of tables where you can eat food that you order from a local business, clean bathrooms, and a parking lot located somewhat behind the building. Would recommend for a fun indoor activity for a group!

Creative theater company located Downtown…read more Their annual fundraiser, BUS, is a frenzied 24 race to perform collaborative, dazzling, cutting edge theater, all in the space of 24 hours. Their venue is a very hip space in a restored building. Their Midnight Radio is a perennial favorite. They call it immersive theater, I just call it exhilarating and fun!

My family attended the production of "The Forest of Everywhere" and had an amazing time. It was my…read morefirst immersive theatre experience and I was impressed with the costumes and set design. The entire theater was transformed into an enchanted forest with various animals that need help. My 2-year-old and I got to awaken an ancient tree, participate in a forest sing along, feed bugs to an Australian alpaca, dance with a donkey, and get photobombed by an ostrich. Shows like "The Forest of Everywhere" and production companies like Bricolage are going to help generations of kids fall in love with theater!

I visited Steel City Axes as part of a private event. Not only do they have Axe Throwing (Which is…read morevery FUN by the way), but they also have Escape Rooms (I believe there are three different rooms (We got to pick one of the three at our event), and my wife and I chose the "80's Dance Club" room, which was a TON of FUN!!! We were partnered with three other people that we hadn't met before, and we were given a briefing, and then were set loose to try and solve the puzzle, and win the challenge before the allotted time was up. My wife and I are both in our 50's, so this room was perfectly themed for our age (but really, I feel just about any age would still have fun in here, but it was even more meaningful, because we lived the 80's life). The music was perfect, I knew every single song, and the effects, were spot on, and it almost felt like were going back in time. Now, I don't want to spoil the fun, and tell the secrets of this room, but let me just say, that this room was so fun, it had us dancing and singing just like we were at a dance club back in the day!!! Bottom line for us, we did NOT solve the room, as we got stuck on a "time waster" and we lost a lot of valuable time, but my wife and I both want to go back and try it again some day, as well as try out the other themed rooms also. Now, in my opinion, the Escape Room was our favorite part of Steel City Axes, but we also enjoyed the actual Axe Throwing too!! We were on site for a little over two hours, and it took 60 minutes to do the Escape Room. The other sixty minutes was spent mingling with others, and taking turns playing with the axes. We threw axes before our Escape Room, and after. I got the hang of it pretty quickly, and got a few bullseyes, but my wife had a harder learning curve. Eventually she figured it out, and was getting the axes to stick into the target, but her axes (and a few for me too) ended up bouncing off the board. We felt very safe, as there was a staff person watching and making sure we followed all the rules (and gave some tips too). Lastly, I must talk about the decor and ambience of the business, which had a funky-Victorian parlour feel to it. There was antique furniture, paintings, taxidermy (stuffed animals wearing cute clothes), and it felt really homey to me, and had a welcoming/ inviting vibe (Check out some of my photos to see how cool it is). Also, they sell a variety of drinks, to include some of my favorite soda pops, made locally by Natrona Bottling / Red Ribbon Sodas . . . I didn't buy any this time, because our party provided bottled waters (and popcorn), but when I come back, I will certainly patronize the snack bar area. I also think I heard that it was BYO, if you choose to partake in an adult beverage. If I had any feedback to improve my experience, it would be to provide some sort of grade at the end of the Escape Room, such as "You completed 11 of 15 challenges (here's where you went wrong, etc.)." We really were kind of left hanging, we knew we failed, but didn't know by how much. Also, our room guide was a little bit soft-spoken, and I had a bit of a hard time hearing everything he said (Note: I usually wear hearing aids, but because of the pandemic, I stopped wearing them because if I wear a mask it doesn't fit properly when my hearing aids are in (BTW, Masking WAS NOT required here if you are vaccinated, but was optional (Many in our group chose to wear masks, and that's fine with me (I brought a mask with me just in case it got too crowded)). Overall though, I still give this place FIVE stars, and both my wife and I look forward to coming back and trying to solve those Escape Rooms again some day . . . BIG CHEERS for Steel City Axes!!!!!

Inviting atmosphere w/ a lot of dark wood & warm lighting. Staff taking social distancing,…read moremask-wearing, & sanitation procedures very seriously (in addition to axe-throwing safety procedures, of course). I really liked that there was an option for a "no touch" check-in & there were signs everywhere reminding people to wear a mask, hand sanitizer available, & they wiped the axes off after each person in our group was done with their throwing turn. There are stools & tables to hang out on & fridges (!) for BYOB. Instructors were very good at helping me perfect my throwing technique. I'd say perfect for a group of 4-10 people.