star trek escape room near me

Star Trek: Quantum Filament: Will you save the crew from certain doom?

Star Trek: Quantum Filament escape room in Las Vegas is recruiting civilian engineers to contain an antimatter breech in an effort to save the U.S.S. Discovery starship. And you’ve got one hour to do it.

Escapology escape rooms have proven a major hit, and its branch in Las Vegas, Nevada, aims straight for sci-fi fans with their latest Trekkie-inspired game, which opened in September, 2021.

The Premise:

As with all escape rooms, participants have one hour to solve a series of codes, clues, puzzles, and challenges within a locked room. Complete your mission before time runs out and you win. Fail and a theme-appropriate “disaster” ensues.

Star Trek: Quantum Filament storyline:

You and your group have been recruited as civilian engineers to perform a routine inspection on the U.S.S. Discovery, a Federation Starfleet Crossfield-class starship. It was state-of-the-art back in the 23rd century; now it and the technology that runs it are museum-worthy.

Your team has been brought on board to make updates that will bring the ship’s ancient tech up to 32nd century standards.

Where it all goes wrong:

It wouldn’t be a challenge if something didn’t go wrong, and in this case, it’s catastrophic. The starship has collided with a quantum filament (an “astrophysical phenomenon”), which has damaged the hull and rendered the power systems nearly useless.

Even worse, there has been a polarity shift in the antimatter containment system, and the ship and all its crew are doomed if the containment field drops below 15 percent.

Worse than that, the crew is trapped behind emergency bulkheads, and you and your team are stuck in a turbolift.

Your mission, now that you’ve accepted it:

You’ve got exactly 60 minutes to find a way out of the turbolift, reestablish communications with senior crew members, repair the antimatter containment field, and do it all with technology that is centuries out of date.

Successful? You’re heroes! Still trying when the buzzer goes off? Make sure that doesn’t happen, because “failure is not an option.”

All Escapology escape games are private; participants will take on the challenge with their group only (between 2-8 people), with the help of a Game Master who can provide hints from outside the room.

Participants should arrive 15 minutes prior to their game time. The experience has no age limit, but is best for youngsters who are old enough to work as a team and participate in somewhat complex challenges (ideally ages 12 and up).

For more information visit Escapology.com/LasVegas .

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Sign me up for the Attractions Magazine e-mail newsletter!

Get the latest news direct to your inbox. Simply submit your email address below.

Thanks, but I’m not interested

• Amazon Shop

Room Escape Artist

Well-researched, rational, and reasonably humorous.

Escapology Austin – Star Trek: Quantum Filament [Review]

There’s been a polarity shift in the antimatter containment system…

Location:  Round Rock, TX

Date Played:  May 13, 2022

Team Size: 2-6; we recommend 3-4

Duration: 60 minutes

Price:  $38.50 per player

Ticketing:  Private

Accessibility Consideration:  There are flashing lights in this room.

Emergency Exit Rating:  [A+] No Lock

Physical Restraints:  [A+] No Physical Restraints

REA Reaction

This room was defined not only by its strong execution of the Star Trek theme but also by the palpable intensity it developed through its story, set, and the difficulty of its puzzles.

Star Trek fans (and Discovery aficionados in particular) will recognize characters, voices, iconography, and ambiance in this room. It leaned into the pseudo-scientific, technological nature of Star Trek, speaking more to the geeky side of the series than to any of its specifically memorable situations or tasks. Most of the sense of adventure came from a couple of appropriately jarring and intense sequences. The rest of the game was a marathon of dense puzzles.

As a puzzling experience, the room was challenging in ways that suited the theme well but won’t appeal to everyone. Most puzzles involved 1) multiple levels of converting information into different forms, 2) interpreting and/ or entering many alphanumeric codes, 3) executing the solution process 6-8 times, and 4) no intermediate feedback. Combinatorially, then, the opportunity for error was staggering. On top of this, somehow none of the touchscreen keypads offered a backspace key. Come on, 23rd century technology!

However, the strength of this particular design was that each puzzle benefited significantly from coordination among team members, usually enabling all four of us to contribute simultaneously. We all kept busy and felt like we played a significant role in saving the ship.

Ultimately, as a band of casual-to-mid-level Trekkies, we enjoyed role-playing on a convincing starship set and felt that our victory was hard-won. This was one of Escapology’s best games and is worth checking out if you have one in town.

Who is this for?

• Adventure seekers
• Puzzle lovers
• Scenery snobs
• Star Trek fans
• Best for players with at least some experience
• For the legit Star Trek ambiance
• For plenty of opportunities to self-organize and cooperate

While we were analyzing the “ancient” Discovery starship, the ship was hit by a quantum filament, trapping us in a turbolift. We had to escape the turbolift, enable communications with the crew, and repair the antimatter containment field.

The story progressed in this game via communication with a handful of characters from the Discovery Star Trek series. Even though the substance of these messages was immaterial to gameplay, they were a fun thematic touch that fans should appreciate.

We spent the game aboard an impressive rendition of the starship Discovery. The Star Trek ambiance was pervasive, complete with sliding doors, dense schematics, futuristic paneling, and touch screens galore. Even the fonts screamed “Star Trek.” Other effects in the room contributed a realistic sense of urgency to the situation.

Escapology Austin’s Star Trek – Quantum Filament was a standard escape room with a fairly high level of difficulty .

Puzzling required close attention to the environment, pattern-matching and decoding, painstaking care in execution, and multiplayer coordination.

➕ The set was on point. We not only felt like we had boarded a Star Trek starship, but we could also feel the gravity of the situation. Lights, sounds, and other effects convincingly communicated the intensity of our mission.

➖ We are fairly confident that one display failed to update with critical information early in the game, and none of the hints helped us recognize this issue.

➕ One particularly engaging puzzle was framed in an intense and compelling way. It focused our attention on a believable task, and the clues and solution process served the task well.

➖ Many puzzles had a belabored execution phase that introduced huge opportunity for error with little support for troubleshooting.

➕/➖ There were touchscreens EVERYWHERE. These absolutely needed to exist to complete the Star Trek aesthetic. However, they added an unintentional element of difficulty to the experience. Sometimes they did not accept inputs responsively. Other times they accepted inputs too responsively.

➕/➖ An abundance of schematic, flowchart-type information was delivered via display screens that updated throughout the experience. The dynamic nature of these screens was true to the theme, but it was also incredibly easy to overlook the changes given the narrow color scheme and similarity of the information being presented.

➕/➖ Almost every puzzle involved interpreting or entering a lengthy series of numbers and letters. True to Star Trek! Tedious for puzzling.

➕ This room included a well-themed progress indicator. I love progress indicators and find them especially valuable in intense, dense rooms like this one.

➕ Although the game flow was linear, each puzzle benefited from multiple participants and felt good to solve together. All four of us stayed busy throughout the game. 

❓ As a room built around licensed IP with an extensive fan base, this experience may attract fans who would be quite overwhelmed at its complexities. Unlike Escapology’s Scooby Doo room, which catered to escape room novices as a way of serving its broader fan base, this room demanded escape room skill.

➕ This was one of those rooms that begged for a costume. Many thanks to our friends for making it happen!

Tips For Visiting

• There is plenty of parking.

Book your hour with Escapology Austin’s Star Trek – Quantum Filament , and tell them that the Room Escape Artist sent you.

• Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)
• Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
• Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
• Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)
• Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)
• Click to share on X (Opens in new window)
• Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)
• Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)
• Click to print (Opens in new window)

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed .

Rock City Escape – Poppet [Review]

REPOD S7E7 – Game Design is Magic: Michael Borys of The 49 Boxes

The Cipher Room – La Rébellion [Review]

The Escape Ventures – Click ‘N Glitch [Review]

Discover more from room escape artist.

Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

Type your email…

Continue reading

S.T.A.R. Escape Rooms

Adventure awaits behind every door

Our Adventures

Overcome brain-bending puzzles, discover important clues and work together to escape the room within the hour. Do you have what it takes?...

Book a Room

A fun night out with friends. A way to bring the family closer. A great team building exercise for co-workers. Escape rooms offer an engaging and fun way to bring a group together.

Give a Gift

Buy a gift card for your family or friends!

Claustrophobia

• Novokuznetskaya • 4 min walk
• Kitay-gorod • 8 min walk

Most Recent: Reviews ordered by most recent publish date in descending order.

Detailed Reviews: Reviews ordered by recency and descriptiveness of user-identified themes such as wait time, length of visit, general tips, and location information.

Also popular with travelers

Claustrophobia - All You Need to Know BEFORE You Go (2024)

• Sun - Sat 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
• (0.08 mi) Gesten Hotel
• (0.08 mi) Makarov Hostel
• (0.13 mi) Sadovnicheskaya Hotel
• (0.13 mi) Medea Hotel
• (0.12 mi) Citycomfort Hotel Novokuznetskaya
• (0.03 mi) Gallery Bar 1857
• (0.03 mi) Belfast
• (0.09 mi) Stary Stambul
• (0.10 mi) Grossbeer
• (0.09 mi) Sbarro