A poster is located on the wall if you didn’t learn the cone colors previously. Take the Spill Quiz – located in the break room on the second floor of Omega Mart.Check Product Samples – located on one of the aisle end caps.Your first mission is to earn three badges in Omega Mart: Note that you will have to go back to some of the access points as you go deeper into the story to trigger other events and different outcomes will occur. Any time you see an access point, you will want to “boop” your card to get deeper into the story. You will want to have a cell phone with you as well to access some of the story.Īs you enter you are given an employee card ( Update: You now have to pay $3 extra for the Omega Access card) – congrats, you are now an Omega Mart employee. While Omega Mart is enjoyable for those just wanting to walk through the exhibit, if you want to invest in experiencing the story, I think you will have a fuller experience. Then see if you can figure out how they got there. Tip: Keep an eye out for people randomly appearing through hidden doors. Some of the passages require that you crawl through them but if you would rather not do that you can always get to a place another way. I found at least ten access points in the grocery store, including through the freezer section and camping section (below), as well as a secret staircase in a t-shirt display and lockers in the break room. There are a few ways to get from the grocery store into the other areas. This area is a small town (Monolith) in the west with mountains, a service shop, and two homes. It feels a bit like the set of a Cirque du Solei show. There are three slides that you people of all ages can play on (kids are welcome before 10pm). The factory is a two story open area with various scaffolding, catwalks and equipment. The headquarters portion has some “research” areas to explore that are large interactive art installations that make use of light, sound, and images. Here you will find the corporate offices as well as the factory where the products are made. The second area is the factory/headquarters of Dramcorp, the corporation behind Omega Mart. Some items are meant to be purchased (think souvenirs like t-shirts, stickers, umbrellas) but many are products you probably wouldn’t actually want to buy like relabeled deodorant, soda, or empty paint cans labeled to look like some mysterious meat product. The other thing to note, which I heard a lot of people talk about, is that most everything in the grocery store is actually for sale. Behind the pharmacy is actually a bar (that doesn’t really play into the story line as far as I can tell) where you can purchase alcoholic beverages. The ground floor is laid out like a standard grocery store with check-out at the front, aisles of shelves in the middle, produce section on one side, dairy and butcher along the back wall, and a pharmacy along the other side. Pretty much everything is meant to be touched and played with and you might be surprised when you find secret passages or you cause the room to change by your interaction. Even without the storyline (later), it is just fun to explore the world that has been created. You will want to spend a good amount of time just exploring and looking at each of the areas as they offer amazing design and interactive art. These are the grocery store, the factory/headquarters, and the desert. The world of Omega Mart is comprised of three main sections over roughly two floors. If you have already been and didn’t quite get the point and would like to hear my perspective, then by all means continue reading. So I would suggest that if you haven’t been yet, stop reading and go visit. The fun of visiting is that you go in and find out everything for yourself. I am going to start with an overview of Omega Mart and then get into the details of what exactly is going on (as best as I can understand).
But quickly you realize that there is something else going on. If you didn’t first have to pay $45 $49-$55 (as of March 2022) $49-$64 + $3 for an Omega Access card (as of April 2023) to enter, you might actually think it was a real grocery store. Located at Area 15 just west of the Las Vegas Strip, Omega Mart (or “Mega Art” if you drop the first letters) is designed to look like a grocery store. Want to read more about Las Vegas? See all my Vegas posts here. Writing about Omega Mart doesn’t do it justice but I’ll try anyway.
Part art museum, part escape room, part fun house, part scavenger hunt, part speakeasy, part social commentary. Omega Mart, from the Meow Wolf art collective out of Santa Fe, reminds me of Entros.
Growing up in Seattle, I had one of my birthdays at Entros, a precursor to Escape Rooms that allowed you to play through tech games in order to solve puzzles. Understanding Omega Mart at Area 15 Las Vegas
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