Before I discuss my experience, I would like to preface that I was really depressed prior to the escape room: my girlfriend broke up with me a week before a carefully planned romantic trip to Vegas. And what made it painful was not the loss in money for the plane tickets, planned events, or the hotel room, but she broke up with me on my birthday. For not buying her a phone. So the Vegas trip had a pretty bad start.
And it could have been worse: when I got to the Saw Escape Room, it turns out that the people who were originally going to be in the room had their flights delayed. Having done escape rooms before, I know that a one person room is always cancelled, especially since some puzzles require multiple people.
BUT instead of cancelling, the security guard (I am so sorry to have forgotten your name!) volunteered to be my teammate. And I am so glad he did, because this was one of the best experiences I ever had in Vegas and the BEST escape room I have ever been to.
First, the vibe: the SAW Escape Room is extremely realistic. Even when I arrived to the room, my uber driver was confused and we thought the building was a real butcher factory. The smell, the looks, even the twisted nature of the puzzles: it felt exactly like a scene from SAW. And it's obvious that a lot of love, time, creativity, horror film fanaticism, and thought went into these puzzle designs. I have been to five escape rooms in Mexico City and the Bay Area, but the SAW Escape Room really blew all of them out of the water.
In fact, this is the FIRST escape room I have been to where they hired actors. Brie was a convincing Jigsaw victim, and Jigsaw, in his pig mask, felt like the real John Kramer with his sudden scares. Even the security guard, who I thought was actually a security guard, was really an actor who stayed in character the entire time.
And as icing on the cake, the manager, after overhearing me confide about my rough breakup to the security guard, gave me a belated birthday present from the gift shop.
In summary, the room and puzzles were not only amazing, but the people who work there really makes this room UNIQUE and the BEST I have ever been to. They truly do justice to the SAW franchise.