New entertainment venue brings social gaming adventure to Randhurst Village

Mount Prospect officials celebrated the opening this week of a new entertainment concept at Randhurst Village.

Time Mission, 132 Randhurst Village Drive, offers a social gaming adventure that immerses participants in an experience with elements drawn from escape rooms, video games and puzzle solving while mixing in a time travel component.

As if to underscore the time travel aspect, Wednesday’s ribbon cutting featured a DeLorean, the time machine of choice in the “Back to the Future” movies.

Time Mission Managing Partner David Larson said the Mount Prospect location checked all the boxes.

“Randhurst Village is known for its vibrant mix of shopping, dining, and entertainment,” he said.

This is Time Mission’s first Illinois location. They also have operations in Rhode Island, New York, Philadelphia and Virginia.

Teams move together through a series of interactive “portals,” each presenting unique challenges that test skills such as reasoning, agility, coordination, memory and teamwork.

“It's like being dropped inside of a video game,” General Manager Tammy Gatewood said.

Every portal offers a theme built around a different historical or futuristic setting Submarine Plunge (1866), the Persian Palace (998 AD), and Alien Awakening (year 8000).

Co-founder Michael Greene said the experience appeals to all ages.

“The reviews I love reading about are when we get adults, parents, grandparents — they thought it was a kids thing, they brought their children, and they participated and had as much fun as their kids, and then they came back with their peers,” he said.

He recalled one group of four women in their 60s at the Virginia location “having a grand old time” without any children present.

Mount Prospect Mayor Paul Hoefert told the crowd Time Mission aligns perfectly with Randhurst Village's ongoing transformation, joining such venues as The Golf Factory and Playroom Cafe.

“Randhurst is, in my mind, in the middle of a real Renaissance, an evolution,” Hoefert said. “For maybe the last 10 years, it's been changing and changing, and I think it’s becoming more of an entertainment destination, and Time Mission fits right into that.”