Der Rockstar is playable for 2 to 7 guests and as highlighted already, 80 minutes to escape. The story is as follows;

“Michael “Der Rockstar” Müller has not contacted you since the tragic event in 2008. It wouldn’t be so bad if he hadn’t also collected your hard-earned royalties but not paid you out.

Now you finally get a sign of life from him and he offers you the prospect of paying back your money – at least €500,000. But the rock star wouldn’t be the rock star if he didn’t let you earn the money! In weeks of work, he turned his new music studio into a puzzle room for you. If you solve the puzzles, you get your money and maybe a surprise or two…”

Puzzles & Flow: 7/10

Der Rockstar had its fair share of puzzles with it being an 80 minute room. This was filled with all sorts of puzzles, from discovery to logic, with the game taking a more non linear based style. The majority of the puzzles followed a musical theme, with it linking to instruments, music, records and using them in different ways to provide coded answers. We really liked how so many of the puzzles were ranged in skill and just made sense. We did hit some really tricky puzzles and others where we just missed it completely in error. The German to English barrier really wasn’t an issue as anything that needed translation was already there, and anything that couldn’t be translated prior was supplied to us at the relevant time. The flow was a little on and off, as we hit many different points in the game where we really struggled to progress and felt like we had exhausted all ideas. With that said, everything did link and we really love how the music theme brought the use of some puzzles together, such as using an old school iPod & iPhone.

Overall, Der Rockstar was a fantastic experience and challenge for us as our first European escape room in person. The standard was high quality from the moment we stepped in, from friendly staff to a cleverly built puzzle room. Rating 4.5 stars by us, this will be one of our firm favourites from 2022 and so glad to see a rare theme done so well!

We managed to escape this 80 minute adventure in 78 minutes, only giving us 2 minutes to spare. Whilst we thought we did it a lot quicker, the room had its surprises. 

This escape room was completed amongst many other experiences we did in Germany and for our theme park audience, Bayern Park amongst other mountain parks can be found around Regensburg, so it is worth visiting The RoomSolvers with them. 

We wish to say a huge thank you to The RoomSolvers for inviting us to experience and gave us a complimentary experience in exchange for this review. This did not influence our ultimate decision and our thoughts are based on our visit. 

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