For an investigation, you and your team participate in a dozen tests at THE DOME Research Facilities.
The life-threatening criminal cyborg Hector at the same time undergoes the first CMNT treatment on a cyborg ever. .
Hector does not appear to be sensitive to the treatment and thus manages to hack THE DOME system during one of the tests with his internal computer. His henchmen, at the same time on the other side of the world, disable the head of security of THE DOME, Thommas Wigg. .
Because of this, there is nothing that can stop Hector from breaking out. With the result; the escape of an extremely high dose of sodium cyclamate in the research area. You and your team will be stunned by this substance and end up in a heavy hallucination from that moment on.
Do you and your team manage to let go of all logic after Hectors escape and go along with the flow of your hallucination? Or do you get caught up in the illusion that under the influence of sodium Cyclamate you still have some idea of what is reality...
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The most insane escape room I have ever done. I’m still not quite sure what happened or indeed why it happened or how it happened. Amazingly designed with mind-bending puzzles, and an added bonus of being able to watch the best moments and reactions back afterwards!
Played: 23 Oct 2018Team size: 4Outcome: Successful escape!
hi-techimmersivemagical😨creepy
A three Michelin star restaurant is said to be so good that it's worth planning a special journey to eat there. That's how I feel about The Dome. Even though I know that virtually none of my friends here in the US are going to make the trip to Bunschoten, I can't help but try to convince them because it is totally worth it. It's such a brilliant combination of mechanisms, theming, environment.
Played: 21 Dec 2022Team size: 4Time taken: 42:02Outcome: Successful escape!
hi-techimmersivemind-bending😨creepy
This lived up the hype! Truly an epic and mind-bending game with many unique elements and a suprisingly diverse selection of puzzles. There were so many wtf moments that we couldn't even process how the set fitted together. Worth every penny we spent on the game and getting to the venue and absolutely essential to play!
You may have heard of The Dome. In fact, I'm tempted to write two versions of this review: one for those who've never heard it mentioned, and another for everyone who knows of it as the game that came top of the 2019 TERPECA awards, the current reigning champion of the English-speaking world's escape room scene. Hype kills enjoyment and no escape room, however magnificent, can live up to such billing; the best way to play it is to stumble across it having heard nothing about it in advance. But i...
A very belated review of the game that’s been voted the world’s best on two separate occasions, and with good reason. It mixed high-quality puzzles, impressive set decoration and a sense of adventure to leave every other escape room trailing in its wake.
I have played this room already for the 2nd time and feel strengthened in my thesis. THE D👽ME IS NOT FROM THIS WORLD!!! Extraterrestrials have created in order to test the intelligence of mankind 🤯. Because what Escape Room Netherland delivers here is simply mindfucking awesome!
It’s best played with very little expectations (though I suppose being for a while #1 in the world does come with it a certain level of expectation), so I’ll leave the review with just one final question:
After 360 theatres in France and Austria, I must admit that we have somewhat lost our ability to marvel at a theatre. We liked to play, but not as much as before and I also admit that we were sometimes disappointed by poor quality theatres, with quick decorations, a reception that was a bit of a factory, and uninteresting riddles. You should know that our trip to the Netherlands gave us back a taste for escapes, amazed us and we are so eager to go back there!We are going to talk to you here...
However, our experience with The Dome was one of the best Escape Room experiences we have ever had. Because The Dome is much more than just an Escape Room, it is THE Escape Room. It is the essence of everything that makes up an Escape Room, no other room has managed to call up this range of emotions in me and my fellow players like The Dome.
Die insgesamt zehn Räume unterscheiden sich enorm – sowohl im Setting wie auch im Rätseldesign. Wir hatten etwas den Eindruck, als wäre jeder Raum von einem anderen Designer entwickelt. So ergab sich für uns leider kein wirklich durchgehend stringentes Spielerlebnis, auch wenn die Räume und Rätsel für sich selbst gesehen sehr beeindruckend waren. Denn was "The Dome" zehn Mal pro Raum liefert kriegt man in manchen Fluchtspielen nicht mal in einem. So blieb bei uns am Ende das Gefühl der Überwältigung und Überforderung.
