Room Escape Artist

For the herd

Location: Kissimmee, FL

Date Played: February 15, 2026

Team Size: 2-8; we recommend 3-5

Duration: 90 minutes

Price: $57.99 per player

Ticketing: Private

Accessibility Consideration: None that we are aware of

Emergency Exit Rating: [A+] No Lock

Physical Restraints: [A+] No Physical Restraints

REA Reaction

Doldrick’s Escape Room has always had a comedic bent to their games, and with their previous game, Crazy Train, they set a new bar. In their latest game, Galactic Beef: The Cosmic Adventures of Star Cow, they have truly seized the crown. Our team laughed our way through this hilarious experience.

The humor alone would make Galactic Beef an easy recommendation… but the greatness didn’t stop there. Doldrick’s packed Galactic Beef with characters and dialogue well past the point of what I had thought an escape room could handle… and they landed it. The story was as funny as it was followable.

To top it all off, Galactic Beef played extremely well. The gameplay was focused on team-based action. It did a fantastic job of keeping our full team engaged from start to finish.

The one big adjustment that I hope comes for Galactic Beef is providing clearer feedback when players get something wrong. As it stands, when we got something wrong, nothing happened. It wasn’t game-breaking, but it was an opportunity to make the ship feel more responsive.

Galactic Beef joins Crazy Train as an Orlando-area must-play escape room. With this latest game, Doldrick’s Escape Room is now a full venue, but I hope that this isn’t the last creation we see from this team. They are really damn good at this escape room thing.

Who is this for?

• Adventure seekers
• Story seekers
• Puzzle lovers
• Sci-fi fans
• Comedy lovers
• Best for players with at least some experience
• Players who don’t need to be a part of every puzzle

Why play?

• It’s hilarious
• Compelling, team-focused gameplay
• An abundance of endearing characters

Story

Join Star Cow’s legendary crew on an intergalactic adventure to help deliver a mysterious stranger to greener pastures.

Setting

Galactic Beef: The Cosmic Adventures of Star Cow was a deliberately designed game. The aesthetic felt a bit like a 90s arcade with black walls and colorful neons glowing under blacklight.

Beyond the physical design of Galactic Beef, there was a shocking amount of content within the game’s many screens: a universe full of unique characters and witty banter. It’s impossible to disentangle the set from the contents of the screens in the best possible way.

Gameplay

Doldrick’s Galactic Beef: The Cosmic Adventures of Star Cow was a narrative-driven escape room with tons of characters and a moderate level of difficulty.

Core gameplay revolved around making connections and solving puzzles. The puzzles relied heavily on communication and teamwork.

Analysis

➕ Galactic Beef had more characters than any escape room we’ve ever played. It shouldn’t have been possible, yet we cared about them all. We were delighted each time a character appeared or re-appeared. Each was distinct, with their own personalities and motivations. They were memorable.

➕ Galactic Beef was marbled with a seemingly endless string of references, puns, and wordplay, and it still told a coherent and engaging story. Moreover, the story was easy to follow.

➕ Doldrick’s invested judiciously in Galactic Beef. The set was minimalist: black paint and neon tape. It was just enough detail to make us feel like we were on a spaceship. Doldrick’s saved the maximalist details for the animation that delivered the characters and story.

➕ The animation was out of this world.

➕ The set was packed with button-y buttons and switch-y switches. And we used them all. The set didn’t just give the facade of a spaceship. It was fully interactive. The hardware felt good and worked well.

➕ /➖ Doldrick’s relied heavily on their animation skills, and most of these delivered. There was one specific instance where animation didn’t quite deliver on the video game-y interaction. This dissonance made the solve feel less satisfying than the tactile interaction should have felt.

➖ Galactic Beef didn’t give any feedback on wrong inputs. If we were wrong, nothing happened at all. We would have appreciated a thematic audio effect, just to let us know we’d done something, even if not quite the right thing. This type of non-responsiveness can slow momentum, especially early on. When one early input device had extra tight tolerances and we had the right answer, but just a hair off, we could easily have stalled. Notches or grooves would go a long way.

➕ There was an unusual cadence to Galactic Beef: a constant back-and-forth between story scenes and puzzle missions. With this flow, it was obvious where to focus our attention at any given time. The story didn’t compete with the puzzles. It was always clear (narratively and physically) what we needed to solve next. When we were solving puzzles, it was always the puzzles themselves and not figuring out what the game wanted from us. Furthermore, we had the option to parallel puzzle or solve linearly, but either way, we’d come together for the story beats before breaking out into puzzles again.

➖ During the story segments, we were standing on hard concrete watching a screen. Strange as this sounds, standing without moving can be more physically tiring than actively solving puzzles. Given this, while we loved the humor and the references, we can understand some players feeling that too much time was devoted to the story segments.

➕ Galactic Beef culminated in a boss battle. This delivered the heroic moment our adventure demanded.

Tips For Visiting

• There is a parking lot.

Book your hour with Doldrick’s Galactic Beef: The Cosmic Adventures of Star Cow, and tell them that the Room Escape Artist sent you.

Disclosure: Doldrick’s provided a complimentary game.

For more about Doldrick’s listen to our interview with creators Mike Dold and Rick George on The Reality Escape Pod.