The swiss escape room scene in Switzerland is split between German and French speaking areas. This time, we stayed on the German side and we traveled one hour by train to the capital of Switzerland! Will it also take the title as the capital city of escape rooms in Switzerland? Keep reading to find out! This time, half of Black Rose (Dominique and Enric) played together with Ayah and Maxime from SwissKnife.

Games we played

• Death chamber (Totenkammer) at Roomexit.ch
• Game of Stones, theescape.ch
• Tresor, Adventure Rooms
• Virus, Adventure Rooms
• Chernobyl (Tschernobyl), Adventure Rooms
• Orient Express, Adventure Rooms

Roomexit.ch

Death Chamber 6/10

The death chamber is located right next to an actual cemetery. In keeping with the theme, the room transports you into an old burial ground, where a famous archaeologist disappeared some time ago. Following his tracks, we made our way through the room. The experience was a bit of a bumpy one since we did not find a necessary part of the puzzle early on and started half-solving the rest of the room before we were actually able to do so. Once we found the missing piece, we were able to progress quickly. All in all, the room has nice decorations but the puzzles are rather on the easy side.

Time: 44 minutes

The Escape Bern

Game of Stones 3/10

This room felt like a bag of chips. You hope to have it all but then you open it just to realize it’s mostly air. Out of all their rooms, we booked this one purely based on the theme and the website plot. It’s a very short game. It’s a storm of parallel riddles that require very little communication, and each of them is in a different corner of the room. My initial hype was crushed when entering the room as soon as I saw a coat of arms that looked like a children had drawn it. The coolest thing is the iron throne which sells well for a photo finish.

Time: 22 minutes

Adventure Rooms Bern

Tresor (Safe) 7/10

This room is advertised as “very hard” and only for experts. Hard? Sure. But more than anything long. Go here full stamina after a shot of espresso because it keeps on going. Classical defuse the bomb before it explodes in 1 hour. Think about cliche settings: office? a lab? locker room? You name it. The setting was a bit classic, yet it kept us busy and our brain burning all the time. Close to no downtime with a lot of things to do.

The GM waited for us in the end with her hands on her head, telling us that now 7 groups had escaped before us, a 1% escape rate so far, all with a handful of seconds left and… we had finished in 42 minutes! Cool, feeldgoodman, but this started the storm. Apparently she spread the news on the super-secret GM WhatsApp and from there on it was high expectations after high expectations. “Wow you will do this room in 10min!”. Really, we’re here to have fun together not to prove anything. On the plus side, on all the rooms we played after this, the GMs were very nice and friendly to us! Thanks Marina, Jasmin, Maya, aaand a last name we forgot (sorry!). Good job!

Time: 42 minutes (Record!)

Virus 5/10

Virus is a room that is situated inside the bowels of the Historical Museum in Bern. It seems, that its rooms were once part of an exhibition but were now re-purposed for the escape room experience – including many taxidermied animals following your every move. The room made use of some cool real-time technology and we were specifically amazed by one specific puzzle near the end that we hadn’t seen anywhere else. Apart form that, the difficulty level and immersion is quite on par with other AdventureRooms.

Time: 30 minutes

Chernobyl 7.5/10

AdventureRooms’ Bern latest room (Aug 2019). An intro that starts with a bit of a show. Awesome, our GM was very motivated and that already sets the right mood when going into a room. The room is very mathy, whereas it can be a turn on for me, it can be tedious to others. No need to add numbers in your head, but some elementary Leibnizian knowledge will be necessary. Highly specialized measuring devices, spray-painted props and a transition from more analytical puzzles to more hands-on and scientific measuring.

Time: 38 minutes

Orient Express 7/10

The first thing to mention about this room has to be its beautiful decoration. Once inside, one really gets the feeling of being in the old fashioned Orient Express. Out of all the rooms we played this day, this was probably the easiest when it comes to riddles but the one we wanted to stay in the longest. We got very stuck with searching – again – but otherwise progressed quickly and with ease. Nothing really out of the ordinary but still worth a visit.

Time: 25 minutes