2/27/2023 0 Comments Escape the tower![]() ![]() The puzzles sprinkled throughout the rooms are very original, with hand built tech keeping the whole thing feeling authentic. Puzzles are mostly intuitive, and the game flow works well between each point, giving great feedback to keep players on track. The story is delivered via the linear gameplay, which works well to gate off new revelations as you progress through the story. Wrapped within the original stone walls of the water tower, the sense of immersion is truly quite high. In fact, the experience feels like a Da Vinci Code-esque adventure in the middle of downtown Raleigh. ![]() The storyline is imaginative and clever, and it luckily doesn’t end the second you begin the room as some promising themes tend to. Speculative fiction themed escape rooms are usually a lot of fun, but when you couple that with being in the actual structure the story is based on, it adds a whole new level of immersion to the game! This was the room we were most excited about when visiting The Tower Escapes, as we were assured we’d be climbing the tower as we solved the puzzles! You have an hour to find out the secret of the Tower Keeper. William had a great interest in Medieval history, crusades, and historic artifacts, some say he spent most of his life in search of Holy Grail. Deitrick, who was garnering a regional reputation for modernist design, chose to convert the aging tower into his architectural offices. The city long considered demolishing the earlier structure, but in 1938 sold the property to Raleigh architect William Henley Deitrick. The downtown water tower was abandoned in 1924, its tank removed and a larger metal tower erected further west. ![]()
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