How We Review

Escape Rooms Las Vegas publishes expert reviews only. We do not accept public or customer ratings, and companies do not supply their own scores.

REAL DATA • SAMPLE SCORECARD

How six category scores become one rating

This example uses the approved Pandora’s Box scores currently stored by ERLV.

9.2ERLV / 10
Puzzles8
Immersion10
Flow8
Originality10
Story9
Overall exp.10

Three different kinds of information

GAME RATING

The room itself

Puzzles, set design, flow, originality, story and overall experience.

FACILITY RATING

The venue experience

Service, check-in, lobby, cleanliness, parking, access and professionalism.

FACTUAL ATTRIBUTES

How the game operates

Private/public booking, duration, player count, live actors and other verified facts.

The review team

Members of the anonymous expert review team have each completed hundreds of escape rooms in countries around the world. Reviewer names, individual scores, reviewer count and the number of submissions behind a public score are not displayed.

Game Rating categories

CategoryWeight
Puzzles & Gameplay20%
Immersion / Set Design20%
Flow & Pacing15%
Originality15%
Story / Theme Integration10%
Overall Experience20%

Overall Experience

Overall Experience considers the complete experience of playing the game, including overall enjoyment, memorability, private versus shared play, game-master interaction as it affects the game, hint delivery, group experience, unexpected frustrations and the overall feeling of the experience.

Facility Rating

Facility Rating is a separate overall expert score for the venue experience. It can consider staff and service, check-in, lobby and facility quality, cleanliness, bathrooms, parking and access, professionalism and the overall venue experience. Public pages do not display separate facility sub-scores, and Facility Rating is never blended into Game Rating.

Descriptive attributes are not quality scores

Difficulty, scare level, private or shared status, group size, live actors, duration, location and price are descriptive attributes. They help players choose an appropriate experience, but they are not separate quality-score categories.

How scores are produced

Reviewers submit structured category scores. Submissions remain pending until an administrator approves them. Approved category scores are weighted using the percentages above, combined with other approved submissions for the same active game, and displayed to one decimal place. Unrated games are shown as Not Yet Rated rather than receiving an estimated or placeholder score.