Room Escape Artist

Lost and Found

Location: St. Johns, FL

Date Played: April 10, 2025

Team Size: 2-8; we recommend 2-4

Duration: 60 minutes

Price:  It’s complicated, about $40 per player

Ticketing: Private

Accessibility Consideration: Team members will have to step up and over a platform.

Emergency Exit Rating: [A+] No Lock

Physical Restraints: [A+] No Physical Restraints

REA Reaction

Atlantis. One of the best known legendary lost cities. At Game Over Escape Room, it was our turn to explore the sunken city having already spent years if not decades researching and studying ancient texts to locate Atlantis.

We found ourselves in an antechamber illuminated as if by light filtered through water, which bathed the room in a blue hue. While thematic, the dim lighting made it difficult to read letters and symbols on several props to solve puzzles. The first room would have benefited from some targeted spotlights to reduce manufactured difficulty from the lighting. The floor to ceiling worn stone walls and weathered set pieces were fitting for an underwater temple of Atlantis.

As we progressed through the gamespace, the set and theming continued to impress us. However, we found the gameplay to be on the easier side due to low puzzle quantity and difficulty. Furthermore, some puzzles forced us to repeat an action several times to produce an answer. While we found the repetition tedious, a puzzle flow with fewer unique puzzle solves seemed more conducive to newer players. We also encountered one puzzle where the pieces did not insert easily into all of the slots. We were uncertain whether the sizing discrepancy of the pieces was intentional to make the puzzle easier or the result of sloppy prop construction.

Overall, the puzzles were logical and we enjoyed the tasks we were set to complete. The brief story gave us a clear path to victory, but didn’t add any emotional response to Lost City of Atlantis. This is a great game to introduce new players to escape rooms and has an approachable difficulty. I would recommend it to those curious about the hobby.

As a growing escape room franchise, Game Over has a variety of rooms at each location. The available options at the St. Johns location included diverse themes that ranged from easy to hard difficulties. More experienced players may prefer Magic School, which we found to be more puzzle dense, or Top Secret, which Game Over advertised as a challenging difficulty level.

Who is this for?

• Adventure seekers
• Scenery snobs
• Atlantis fans
• Less experienced players

Why play?

• The spectacular scenery
• Logical puzzle flow
• Collaborative solves

Story

After years of research and searching we had found Atlantis! But a new threat loomed. Haunting vocals turned our attention to a well and a mermaid warned us we were now trapped! The only way to escape with our lives was to unearth the secrets of Atlantis and use Poseidon’s trident to find a way out. With the clock ticking, our academic goals took a back seat to survival.

Setting

The pockmarked columns and worn stone walls were bathed in the light filtering through leagues of water. Lost City of Atlantis set the stage for an exciting underwater romp through the halls of the sunken city. Discarded shells, ancient carvings, and strange sigils begged for interaction. Our curiosity drew us further into the space and exciting discoveries awaited us within this forgotten realm.

Gameplay

Game Over’s Lost City of Atlantis was an in person escape room with an easy level of difficulty.

There was minimal searching throughout Lost City of Atlantis. Gameplay revolved around diverse puzzle types including decoding, sound, and dexterity.

Analysis

➕ The set of Lost City of Atlantis was gorgeous. The lighting provided the illusion that we were underwater, and the ambient noise enhanced that. The set pieces were themed well and compounded the feeling that we were in Atlantis.

➖ In the first few gamespaces, though thematic, the lighting was dim. We struggled to read several different pieces of information needed to solve puzzles in those areas.

➕ At one point, the team was separated and needed to work together to reunite. The mechanism for this separation was unique and refreshing.

➖ One puzzle had several pieces that only fit comfortably in certain slots. We found this frustrating because we couldn’t figure out if some pieces were just tight, or if some pieces were intentionally oversized to help reduce the difficulty of the puzzle.

➕/➖ There were two points where you had to complete a puzzle several times in a row. The repetitive nature could be nice for teams newer to escape rooms, but we found it tedious.

Tips For Visiting

• Plenty of parking on site
• Plenty of restaurant options nearby
• Game Over has multiple locations, primarily in Florida, and in a few other states too.

Sarah Mendez recently played Lost City of Atlantis in Katy, Texas. That location exhibited the same ambiance, puzzle design, and recommended audience as Kurtis described in this review for St. Johns, Florida. The Katy location did not suffer from the prop difficulties mentioned here, but it instead featured some flaky technology, forcing many more repetitions of the affected puzzles than should have been necessary.

Book your hour with Game Over’s Lost City of Atlantis, and tell them that the Room Escape Artist sent you.

Disclosure: Game Over provided media discounted tickets for this game.