Find The Key

If you’ve never participated in a real life escape room, or you haven’t experienced the online phenomenon that started it, you might enjoy Find the Key. If you know what this is all about though, you will likely want to choose one of the other «Escape Room» type games that Montréal has to offer.
Find the Key is very basic. They pride themselves on their very low success rate for their Crime Scene room (which isn’t much of a crime scene at all) and that’s not even their most difficult room. The chances of anyone successfully completing the «Crime Scene» on their first attempt without prior knowledge is negligible, that looking back from the solution, it is hard to see how it could be solved at all within the time allowed.
When I say that Find the Key is very basic, I mean that in the same way that a dish at a restaurant is bland and you feel that the chef just mailed it in, proverbially, to say that he gave you what you paid for. Yes, it’s an escape room, but this is a series of (mostly) 3 digit locks and 3 digit codes hidden around the room. It is plainly obvious that «the key» you’re looking for is hidden behind 5 locks that look exactly alike. So what ends up happening is that every time you find a 3-​digit code, you end up trying it in every lock. Woohoo. There’s not much semblance of progression, and the game doesn’t change enough as you move through the scenario. It’s mostly «find a code, find the lock it goes in, repeat.»
Like I said, it’s fine, but there are much better. This escape room was missing the passion for the game. You can’t just put a bunch of locks in a room, throw up some caution tape, and call yourself an escape room. It takes more than that.
When you come to Find the Key, don’t expect to succeed, and you might be happy with your experience. And trust me, this is not because I didn’t win… I’ve failed numerous times at these, but when the clues are clever, realistic, plausible, I tip my hat at the creator. Not here though.