"Breakout Philippines lets you live in different scenarios with well crafted storylines full of unexpected twists and turns that you have to solve in order to escape. Immerse yourself in an interactive game where you need to find clues and solve logic puzzles based on various storylines and themed rooms." - breakout.com.ph

The objective of the game is to ESCAPE. To do this, a PLAN must be made. Since you are with a group, teamwork is a must. It does not only require you to search and ransack the place for a physical key. Sometimes you have to SOLVE a puzzle or a find formula to come up with a combination code to open a lock or a safety box or something locked that can't be opened by a key.

 

Before entering and being locked in your chosen game room, a staff will brief you of the rules while inside the room. A locker will be provided to deposit your things. Then each will be handed an eye mask to cover their eyes before being guided into the room. A recorded voice over will then be heard which will help you internalize the situation you are in. Once the voice over instructs you to remove your eye mask, that's when the game begins.

The game will not be fun without pressure, haha! So 45 minutes will be allotted to your group to open all rooms and breakout. Yep, you read it right. A game is not just a single room. It will be a series of locked rooms and locked doors to decipher before that sweet escape. A monitor is available to help you track your time remaining.

There's a variety of room to choose with difficulty levels ranging from easy to difficult. In Mandaluyong, they have 6 rooms available. They also have a branch in Serendra BGC and another in Katipunan QC. All 3 branches have different set of rooms to play so the fun doesn't really stop after opening the first room. Once you're done with all the rooms in a branch, you still have 2 more branches to try.

Here's us after we successfully escaped Room 13 (this is actually the easiest room). Since my teamates have been to this room already, they knew what to do and where to check until halfway of the challenge. In just 13 minutes, we were already out. I was just starting to get the hang of the game, internalizing being trapped and trying to play detective. But only a few minutes since we entered, we were already out! Haha!

So we challenged ourselves to another room -- Adarna's Lair. This room has a 5/5 difficulty level. This time we really enjoyed the game. It was fun testing ourselves on how well we could perform. We were on our last door to open when our time ran out. It turned out however that we were supposed to be out before our 45 minutes expired. There was an error on their part because the door that we've been trying to open is supposed to be not locked (BOOO! 👎🏻). We were kinda disappointed with what happened. Due to this, we didn't get the actual time of when we finished the game. They have CCTV monitors but they don't save the records so we have no way to find out.

Anyway, due to the problem on their part, we agreed on a random estimate of the time it took us to finish unlocking the doors (except the last one). And guess what, we got 3rd place out of all the groups that successfully broke out of that room. Haha! Happy pero not convinced! We were called 'Living Legends' because we got out on our first try. With that, we got this souvenir pic. 🤗

To know more about Breakout Philippines' reservations, game rooms, rules, rates and stuff, visit their website: breakout.com.ph