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You voted, and now it’s here! We have spent months hammering, drilling, cutting, painting, foam carving, more painting, wiring, hammering, sawing, did I say painting… oh, and more wiring to get this scenario to look and feel like an Egyptian tomb.    Our build team consisted of 6 to 8 staff members, all of whom put their sweat and tears into making this dream become a reality. They all had a hand in bringing Nefertari’s Tomb to life and in my opinion they did an amazing job.   The tomb is over 600 sq.ft and it consists of 3 main puzzle path chambers and a few […]

We are expanding in order to bring you newer and bigger escape games! We have already begun renovations of our new location near Jefferson and I-25. The facility will be able to house up to 6 scenarios, a conference room, and a spacious lobby / meeting area. We hope to open doors to the public in June 2017.    Initially we will offer just one scenario, Nefertari’s Tomb, but hope to have a second scenario operating at the new facility by late Fall. We plan to keep the Carlisle facility running for at least  the next few years. This means that by the end of 2017, we will have […]

We have such an artistic staff at NM Escape Room! We employ a seamstress and cosplayer, an actor, a sketch artist, a clown, and another artist who also happens to cosplay. I wanted to highlight New Mexico’s local talent who also happen to have day jobs at your friendly, neighborhood escape room!   Kailah Case aka Case Creative Arts – a local artist who recently graduated from UNM. She paints, sketches, foam carves, and fabricates her costumes and accessories for her cosplay. She does it all, and was especially instrumental in bringing Nefertari’s Tomb to life!    Nicholas Wineman aka Stu Pickles- not local to NM, […]

New Mexico Homes, a resource for Albuquerque, NM Real Estate, recently featured us in an article. Read it here: New Mexico Escape Room Challenges Critical Thinking, Logic and More With Creative Live Action Scenarios.

This month NM Escape Room had the opportunity to attend the Haunted House Association Trade Show in St. Louis, MO.This is and has been the biggest haunted attraction trade show in the U.S. for the past 20 or so years, and now it has taken on the escape game industry. It’s a one stop shop of sorts where vendors, designers, instructors, enthusiasts, and customers can mingle and commerce.    Three members of our NM Escape Room team attended the show and a few seminars to learn and bring back new knowledge and skills to help improve what we bring to the community here in the […]

There are many, many escape rooms popping up all over the world offering a variety of themes, game play styles, and puzzles. Your traditional – ha, have they really been around long enough to justify the description, traditional?- escape games are largely lock and key based, where clues are hidden or locked up with a combination or key lock of some sort and the players must find the codes to unlock them in order to progress in the game. The theming or settings in these games vary slightly, but are largely an office setting with little immersion factor. That said, these games […]

Sadly, we have decided to retire our Unpublished scenario. It had a good run for a full year. This will make a great deal of folks sad, but that one guy who yelled, “It Sucked!” upon not beating the room will be quite pleased to see it go.    On a happier note, we have a new scenario designed to take its place! We hope to have the build completed by the end of January 2017. This room will include a bit more tech than our other scenarios, but will still offer the challenging puzzles and thematic setting and back story that our fans […]

One of the coolest things we get to witness is families reuniting at our NM Escape Room during the holidays. We see all generations of one family come together to play a game. It is reminiscent of the family board game nights that were popular when I was growing up. I know that families still practice this ritual of fun and togetherness, but in addition to that, they are now playing escape room games. It always warms our hearts to see the grandmother so encouraging and proud of her grand child as he/she puzzles through the escape room game. And to see grandpa directing […]