De Code Adventures, Mississauga: Address, Phone Number, De Code Adventures Reviews: 4.5/5
De Code Adventures
De Code Adventures
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Room-escape has gained popularity within the virtual world during the past decade and De Code Adventures has brought the idea into real life. You will have to solve riddles, find hidden tools, to ultimately escape the room with your teammates. You will need to demonstrate cooperation, creativity, intelligence and observational skills while freeing yourself from the greatest enemy, TIME!
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Ryan
Mississauga, Canada737 contributions
Oct. 2020
De Code Adventures offers live action, team-based games. Players (4-6) are “locked” in a room and must explore their surroundings (discover clues, solve puzzles, and perform tasks) to “escape”. Games are meant to follow a distinct theme with puzzles that follow a set narrative. Each game ought to take no more than 60 minutes. My wife and I visited De Code Adventures yesterday with our daughter (17) and son (15). The facility currently offers three games (“Mission: Quazar”, “The Mutagen Effect”, and “The Darkest Hour”). We attempted the “Mission: Quazar” challenge and, unfortunately, failed. “Mission: Quazar” is an extremely difficult challenge, even for veterans like us, boasting only a 5% success rate without hints. The adventure needs to be retooled! Case and point, it took us experts 20 minutes and a hint just to get past the adventure’s first puzzle, and we have successfully completed 14 separate escape games in the last year alone. Regrettably, everyone in the group left the adventure at the end of 60 minutes frustrated, disappointed, and angry. Not fun! Maybe you will have better luck than us. Between four and six players can play this alien-themed game. Look for De Code Adventures at 6620 Kitimat Road in the Ontario municipality of Mississauga. Except for Tuesdays, the facility is open daily for gameplay. Book your adventure online. Admission is $26.99 per player (excluding tax), and participants must sign a waiver. Outside food is not permitted in the facility, and currently masks are mandatory. Be sure everyone on your team arrives at least 10 minutes ahead of the scheduled game time so gameplay can start on time.
Written October 24, 2020
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Vivs_Adventures
476 contributions
Sep. 2019 • Family
We’ve been to many escape rooms and so far, whenever we are bringing new people and want to be sure of a quality experience, we choose De Code. If you’ve not tried an escape room before, it’s a must do and bring at least 3 friends/family members as everyone has a different way of thinking that contributes to the experience. By quality, I mean multiple rooms, puzzles that all work, not hearing things going on in adjacent rooms, helpful staff, etc. De Code has all of that with games of varying levels of difficulty. This time, we did The Mutagen Effect and it was awesome! We were also awarded time for free board game play and they have a really extensive offering of games, a great room, and an offering of snacks in case you get hungry. Plus, if you follow them on social, you get a discount. Parking is easy and free right next to the door.
Written September 17, 2019
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Kristina K
Toronto, Canada21 contributions
Apr. 2019 • Friends
It's not just a great escape but also an incredible board game cafe with some delicious snacks and great games selection. The game itself was twisted and we failed but it definitely was interesting and quite challenging.
Written April 20, 2019
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ValsBagsRpacked
103 contributions
Mar. 2019 • Friends
This review is just for the gaming cafe area. While they also have a few escape rooms as well, we only used the games cafe. It was my first visit. And I must say parking was a challenge! Both the escape rooms and cafe we very busy! And we got there around 4pm !
I came with some friends to get some serious board game play!!! And I must say I am beyond grateful I brought 3 of my own games from home... because all the games I waned to play were either already being used or not available. :((((. The employees didn’t seem to care about finding a game I wanted.... but were really happy to make our beverages and snacks.
All in all.... we had a great time playing my games. But it would have been way better if they had more comfortable chairs. We would all go again :)
I came with some friends to get some serious board game play!!! And I must say I am beyond grateful I brought 3 of my own games from home... because all the games I waned to play were either already being used or not available. :((((. The employees didn’t seem to care about finding a game I wanted.... but were really happy to make our beverages and snacks.
All in all.... we had a great time playing my games. But it would have been way better if they had more comfortable chairs. We would all go again :)
Written March 25, 2019
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Noneed4nameplz
Mississauga16 contributions
Dec. 2018 • Family
5 people locked in a hot, tiny room with LEGO and duplo all over the floor... my worst nightmare. Clues were a stretch at best and most clues involved some form of math... measurement, tangrams and multiplication. So if you suck at math, this is not the room for you. Not our favourite experience. Been to better escape rooms in the city. Staff were great and friendly.
Written December 31, 2018
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MammaRPD
Toronto, Canada10 contributions
Mar. 2018 • Family
Child’s play escape room had too many red herrings that had nothing to do with the solutions that wasted our valuable time. There’s no need for that. Overall the experience was just ok. We’ve been to better escape rooms. The staff were nice, though.
Written June 2, 2018
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Indah Edlightz
Ontario, Canada2,320 contributions
Nov. 2017 • Friends
We came along to join another couple for a birthday party. It was interesting. I think we picked a pretty difficult level as we really couldnt get going. Many of the clues were a stretch at best so you have to have some experience in doing this as we were afraid to damage things or move things as we thought they were decorations. Once we received more clues and feedback from the staff we got moving. This has nothing to do with intelligence but experience in this kind of activity so don't let your ego get in the way of having fun and choose beginner level if you are new.
Written May 14, 2018
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Sabina O
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May 2018 • Couples
The staff was so nice and friendly! We booked online + Liked them on Instagram and received a discount for doing both. I went with my boyfriend and we did the Mutagen Effect room. It was a great multi-room escape challenge with clean and well decorated rooms. The puzzles were a little challenging but not overly difficult, although they were not very linear. After solving a puzzle we had to take a minute to try to figure out what the next step was as, like I mentioned, the puzzles weren't very liner compared to other rooms we have done. A couple of tips for those looking to do this specific room: 1) don't focus much about the music, 2) all the books sit on the bookshelf well ...I don't want to be too specific cause I don't want to give anything away, but once you're in the room you'll know what I mean! A suggestion to the company itself: take out any unecessary elements that people don't need to solve the puzzles as it's really confusing when you're focused so much on one thing but it's not actually needed at all to solve that puzzle. Also, it would be great if there was a little more guidance in a couple of parts (for example making it clearer that the white line is the floor so people don't have to use hints to figure out what that line is, or make it a little clearer as to what is needed to be done with the blue book). Apart from that, we were impressed with the staff, the escape room itself, and the facility. We enjoyed our adventure and will be coming back for more!
Written May 9, 2018
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dsouzadian
Toronto, Canada4 contributions
Jul. 2017 • Friends
It was a fun-filled 60 mins for us, the 2 couples, that visited. We were almost at finishing line but got miffed at the very end. Recommend it for a mental workout, race against the clock and just good team work! Do it!
Written August 1, 2017
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WendyM3218
Mississauga, Canada4 contributions
May 2017 • Friends
Went with 5 other people - age ranged from 14-28 yrs old.The difficulty level for this room is rated 4/5. We managed to finish with a bit more than 15 minutes to spare; no hints! This was our second time as a group trying out an escape room with the exception of one person who's done multiple rooms (mostly escape rooms in Toronto).
Very relaxed and friendly environment from the moment we stepped into the building. They offered a discount if you post something about De Code on social media that we all definitely took advantage of.
No front parking space when we went on a Saturday afternoon but a lot of space at their back parking lot. Lockers were available for us to store our belongings. No phones allowed in the room - probably to keep us from looking things up as we went along and to also keep us from posting/spoiling the room for others.
Each person contributed in solving the puzzles. It was fun and very interactive. We will be coming back to try other rooms.
After we finished we were directed to the board game room where there was a lot of space and tables. There is also a snack bar in the corner!
Definitely a must-try!
Very relaxed and friendly environment from the moment we stepped into the building. They offered a discount if you post something about De Code on social media that we all definitely took advantage of.
No front parking space when we went on a Saturday afternoon but a lot of space at their back parking lot. Lockers were available for us to store our belongings. No phones allowed in the room - probably to keep us from looking things up as we went along and to also keep us from posting/spoiling the room for others.
Each person contributed in solving the puzzles. It was fun and very interactive. We will be coming back to try other rooms.
After we finished we were directed to the board game room where there was a lot of space and tables. There is also a snack bar in the corner!
Definitely a must-try!
Written May 16, 2017
This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of TripAdvisor LLC.
was it 1 room escape room, or did you have to solve clues in multiple rooms?
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Leanne C
Mississauga, Canada
We have both types of rooms at our facility.
"The Mutagen Effect" and "The Darkest Hours" are multi-rooms, where as the other three "De Code the Child's Play", "De Triad Code" and "De Code the Art Legacy" are 1 room escape rooms.
The Triad Code is a competitive room where 2 groups can start at the same time and race against each other and time to solve (each group enters a 1 room escape room).
Mgg2012
Oakville, Canada52 contributions
Would this be fun for a 9-year-old's birthday party (with adult help...they wouldn't be in the room On their own)? Is it scary?
Leanne C
Mississauga, Canada
Hello! Yes, we've had birthday parties for 9 year old at our facility previously and they loved it. Generally, the theme for all of our rooms are not scary. The only room that may potentially be, would be De Code the Ancient Mystery, which is a dark room (Archaeology / Camping themed) and flashlights will be provided.
There are also different modes that the group can pick to make the room easier / harder. Two of the rooms (De Scientific Code & De Code the Ancient Mystery) have the easier mode (Guiding mode - unlimited hints up until the last puzzle) to make the room more manageable with a smaller group, or younger audience. If you wish to be challenged, you can also pick challenger mode (1 hint) or insane mode (no hints).
