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Arcane Escape Rooms: The Ghost of Mentryville

By escapethereview | December 28, 2020
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by Arcane Escape Rooms (website)

23504 Lyons Ave #405b, Newhall, CA 91321

Santa Clarita

60 minutes

Winner of a 2024 TERPECA award

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Review by Anonymous expert

Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
story-driven😨creepy
Possibly the most uniqely GMed experience I have played.

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