That seems to be the baseline for a lot of these places. They rent some warehouse space, throw up drywall rooms, then fill them with thrift store furniture/deco

That seems to be the baseline for a lot of these places. They rent some warehouse space, throw up drywall rooms, then fill them with thrift store furniture/decor. The puzzles boil down to solving a series of padlocks or keycodes. However note the place in the article - they clearly put a lot of effort into it. The decor is well done and the puzzles are actually involved, even interactive. I went on a cruise ship that had an escape room. It was incredibly well designed both from a puzzle and decor standpoint. It was also the most difficult room I've ever tried. It was a fake "submarine" like the one mentioned in the article, though the decor was even more realistic. There were multiple interactive puzzles that involved things like re-routing the flow of water through pipes or using a VR headset mounted on a "periscope" to scan the "surroundings" for clues. The sky's the limit on these, so to speak.