The prices are comparable with the option of sending a ready escape room from the Russian Federation. If you add forwarding, customs costs, payment of fees and possible installation costs on site, you will get a similar amount.
Also, if you order work from me, you do not transfer any money (except ticket) to strangers in another country.
As for the evaluation of labor, it would be more expensive to hire a screenwriter, a decorator and an engineer as individual specialists. Also, you will have to organize them to work in a team.

For the building of the escape room. I can not say that this is a turnkey service because I don't solve absolutely all the issues related to opening the escape room. But after the repair of the premise, I take on 100% of the work on the manufacture of puzzles, their installation, configuration, and modification. I decorate the escape room. I create all the necessary props. Decorative lighting and sound system. Smoke systems, noise, and other special effects. I сompletely preparing the game space for the first games. I watch how the players pass the test games. According to the results of test games, I am eliminating the shortcomings, and departure only when the ER is ready for paid games.

I'm not engaged in renting a room, its rough and clean repair. These issues are handled by the customer himself: construction work including the installation of doors, general lighting, electrical wiring. The materials cost also doesn't include in the price. Materials are purchased together with the customer in local building stores or ordered from China. Price doesn't include the installation of surveillance cameras, alarm systems, fire protection systems.

Yes, it's possible. It's possible to reduce the price when building two escape games at a time. Also for some escape rooms (where there isn't a lot of props), can reduce the price reduced the amount of work for making props.

Puzzles in the escape room is a combination of props and electronics. If one person does props for puzzles, and another automates them, then errors or inconsistencies are possible. Usually, it turns out so: decorators do, and then engineers are reworking all. Therefore, I don't do engineering work separately.

If you are a good engineer and you only need decor, it is better to find a contractor with lesser prices.

The availability of the scenario will not reduce the cost of work. This is due to the fact that for the most part, (90% of scenarios that I saw) writers come up with difficult to implement puzzles. The bad is not that they are complex in implementation, but that they are difficult to make reliable in operation. I do not do what causes me doubts. If the escape room will often break down, it will not bring money. Nobody needs this. Therefore, your scenario is likely to have to be redone.

I creating an escape room from what will be bought in your country or in China (of your choice). Therefore, in the event of a breakdown, you will be able to purchase a replacement and will not be tied to unique components. Regarding reliability, my eight-year experience with electronics allows choosing the most stable solutions. And repeated testing in the process of work minimizes the possibility of misfires in puzzles.

In constructing itself, as a rule, no assistance is required. But for the purchase of materials, I need the help of the customer or his people, since needs to visit stores. Usually during the creation of the escape room needs to visit the building stores 10-18 times and 1-4 times the electronics store.

In practice, from $ 4,000 to $ 18,000. More precisely it cannot be said because projects can be are very different in scale. Most of them are 'eaten' by decor and props. Also, if, for example, the cost of wood in the country is high, and there are many decorations from it, the budget grows up. I try to cut costs as maximum, taking materials from available rubbish or looking for analogs that can be changed to suit our needs (about this you can read in the stories - links in the Portfolio section).