What People Say About Sherlocked Escape Rooms in Amsterdam

My husband and I are driving through Europe and we did our first escape room in Hamburg two days ago and we were hooked! So with roughly 20 hours to spend in Amsterdam, we thought we’d try another escape room. It was worth every penny! We picked Sherlocked based on TripAdvisor reviews. Despite being number 3 overall (at the moment!), it had over 1,000 reviews and over 900 were excellent. Also, the reviews indicated that the experience involved more puzzles rather than an endless series of lock combinations, which really appealed to us. Our game master, Armando, greeted us at the door and did a great job telling the story and getting us into character with his clever tale of secret societies and hidden rooms. His English was phenomenal and his story telling skills were excellent. There was no role playing, per se. The background story served to explain the purpose of the room, but it wasn’t silly or stupid at all. The puzzles were fun and varied. There were some classic pattern recognition games, but there were also a variety of really creative games that involved using all five of our senses! I won’t say more for fear of spoiling it, but we highly recommend this room. It was challenging and we didn’t finish (got stuck on one clue for the last 10 minutes or so), but we really enjoyed the ones we did solve. It is hard to manage your time well with only 2 people, and we were told the success rate for groups of 2 is 15 to 20 percent and we were apparently 80 percent finished, so we felt good about our efforts!! I’d imagine this would be even more fun with 3 or 4 people. p.s. I went back and read the “terrible” and “poor” reviews and the majority appear to be old so my assumption is that they don’t apply because ours was neither confusing nor a role playing game and our game master could not be more pleasant or polite.

This is so much fun. So well organized. With lots of different puzzles to solve. It keeps You allert for the full hour. All bassed on a great historic story. In a n amazing ambiance. I love it!!!!!!!

Amazing experience. Serious, non-casual, better than standard escape room experience

Absolutely amazing. Definitely worth the money and the time. Even my shy sibling had a good time!

Great experience, all in English so no language problems. You are involved from the very beginning and definitely need to think out of the box!

We've done all three of their escape rooms. They are the best we've played. Every room is unic in its own way, but still connected somehow. You can see the years of work, but also the growth in expierence in design. If you dont want 'just an escape room' but an immersive expierence than sherlockeds' escape rooms are just for you. Also try the 'van der mist Report' and the 'medusa report' at home. We backed the kickstarter and these games are awesome. Hopefully a room will open up again in the building, so that you can create a new expierence.

** Edited ** Admittedly I did not enjoy my experience in this escape room from beginning to end, and left very disappointed. However I came to learn how much the people responsible for this place care about their customers when I saw how much effort they put in contacting me and enquiring about my experience. They explained the reasons things didn't go to plan that day and made sure I was compensated for my bad experience.

We played on a sunday night, which was a perfect closing of the weekend. The game is fun, well paced and made me feel like a boy for a moment. I will look into booking another game!

This is the hardest in the Netherlands and the building is just amazing with all original features.

Excellent entertainment, we had lots of fun even though we failed badly at the end. 5/5 will be back!