Darren Guido
February 8, 2021
The month of love is here! February is a popular time to express care and affection to your friends, sweetie, and other important folks in your life. Gary Chapman’s “The Five Love Languages” detail five different ways to communicate and convey these feelings (find out your Love Language here). Escape rooms offer ample opportunity to show how you feel to your loved ones through each of the five love languages. Quality Time Escape rooms are the ultimate quality time activity! They provide a chance for you to spend time together away from the chaos of the real world uninhibited from […]
March 30, 2019
As many of you know, at NM Escape Room we currently operate with sessions that are private bookings; this means that a booked session comprised of at least 4 participants secures the game private for that group, and no one else can access the unbooked spots in that session. This has been very well received as the majority of customer groups prefer to play the escape game only with people they know as opposed to playing the game with strangers. The draw back to private bookings with a participant minimum is that it doesn’t allow for groups of less than […]
January 28, 2019
Escape the ordinary, and bring your sweetheart out for some exciting, puzzling fun! In honor of Valentines Day, we’d like to invite you and your sweetie or bestie to come play a game at the New Mexico Escape Room! Typically, our group minimum is 4 participants, but we wanted to share the love, and offer this limited opportunity. We will open our schedule on Thursday, February 14th to allow for single and double bookings in the same game. So come out with your partner in crime for some great fun and potentially the opportunity to team up with some other […]
July 3, 2018
We are currently not running any contests at New Mexico Escape Room. Stay tuned to our social media channels (Facebook, Instagram & Twitter) for announcements on upcoming contests.
February 19, 2018
Support local! We hear it all the time, but sometimes it’s tough to do, and we don’t always know whether the establishments we frequent are locally owned businesses or not. Did you know that we have 3 locally owned and operated escape game companies in Albuquerque? NM Escape Room has been around since early 2015, along with Esquape It since late 2015 and Abq Xcape Room since late 2016. All of these games are very different, but very well done. We appreciate the creativity and efforts of our local owners, and are glad to share the industry and this town […]
January 2, 2018
We’ve got lots in store for 2018! We are excited to announce the opening in early April of our newest escape game, Bombshell! It will be joining it’s counterpart, Nefertari’s Tomb, located at our facility on 4401 Mcleod Rd NE. This game will start out with an important goal in mind as the mob bosses from crime syndicates all over the city convene to discuss the pressing matter of a shared enemy, Don Bosargio. He’s a quirky eccentric who doesn’t respect the old ways, and is reeking havoc all over the city, disrespecting other crime families, and trespassing on their territories. […]
December 19, 2017
Give the gift of memories! With the big holiday right around the corner, you may feel the pressure to give the ultimate gift. Why not give the ultimate escape room experience? We have made purchasing a gift card to NM Escape Room easy and convenient. Just visit our Gift Certificates Page and purchase your gift in quantities of $25. You will then receive a voucher code that will be used by the gift recipient to book their experience at either location at NM Escape Room on Carlisle Blvd or McLeod Rd. You can also stop by either location during our open […]
November 19, 2017
Recently I’ve had some conversations with customers regarding their favorite game design styles. Specifically, we were comparing a more linear game play style where one clue leads to the next and so on, vs. a multi path game where the linearity is broken up by multiple steps that ultimately lead to the grand finale. Both styles in my opinion can be fun, but watching customers play over these past few years has made me favor a multi path design over a linear one. The pros of a linear game are: It’s sometimes easier to make connections and recognize the […]
October 19, 2017
Pull up your boots and get your wits about you! NM Escape Room has designed a new western themed mission based escape scenario, Duel at Dusk, and it’s a great game for the whole family. This escape game has the highest success rate of all of our scenarios, but don’t let that fool you. It’s still a doozy of a puzzle. It is great for first timers, old timers, and everyone who wants to have a hootenanny of a time. Set in a wild western saloon, The Salty Churro, (ask for that back story when you arrive, it’s pretty funny) […]
September 8, 2017
The Blood Map scenario has had a great run. It was the first scenario that we debuted when we opened back in 2015, and the first scenario that our community got to experience locally. It has been so much more than just a great room. The Blood Map has taught folks that “white equals 7” and that a random bolt isn’t what it seems, to explore every square inch of an escape game, and more importantly, that discovering a hidden room behind a book shelf is one of the best things since sliced bread. The replacement will be released hopefully […]
August 8, 2017
We operated for 2 years having all of our sessions open for booking by groups up to 8 participants. What this means is that if a group of 4 books a scenario, there is the potential that another group of 4 could join them in that same scenario. We did it this way because that was pretty much an industry standard in the United States when we opened. All the various games we played operated under this policy, so we saw nothing wrong with emulating this practice. We really hadn’t had any negative experiences in either the pairing of strangers in […]
July 8, 2017
I’ve discussed team building, but team bonding is probably more closely in line with what groups typically experience when they attend a work related event at NM Escape Room. Though we do offer team building extras for those groups who are looking to identify areas where their team dynamic needs improvement, but teams also need to just get away and have a good time. When a work group comes to just have some fun and let off some steam, the ultimate goal is a good time, but the great thing is they are making memories together to look back on. That is where the bonding […]