Labyrinth Escape Rooms (Parramatta, Australia) Time limit: 60 Age limit: None Player limit: 2-8 (recommend 4+) Difficulty: Hard Date visited: January 2026 Outbreak was our third and final room at Labyrinth, and also reportedly their hardest, with an escape rate of about 10% (according to our GM)! How did we go? This was easily my favourite of the three rooms we did at Labyrinth, though it was not without flaws. But as an escape room experience, it felt like a step up compar

Labyrinth Escape Rooms (Parramatta, Australia) Time limit: 60 Age limit: None Player limit: 2-6 Difficulty: Medium to Hard Date visited: January 2026 Note: There are some discrepancies about whether this room is called Game Night or Games Night , as it appears as both on the Labyrinth website as well as other third-party sources. To me, Game Night sounds better, so that's what I've gone with, Our second room at Labyrinth was Game Night , which we tackled after returning from

Labyrinth Escape Rooms (Parramatta, Australia) Time limit: 60 Age limit: None Player limit: 2-8 (recommend 4) Difficulty: Medium to Hard Awards: TERPECA Nominee (2022) Date visited: January 2026 Our final escape room adventure before the start of the 2026 school year took us back to Parramatta, this time to Labyrinth Escape, a small business that opened back in 2015. We decided to take advantage of a Sunday special they had at the time, where children under 18 received a 50%

PaniQ Room (Sydney, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: 2 players must be 16+ (flexible) Player limit: 3-9 Difficulty: 4/5 Date visited: January 2026 After completing Run (Supercell 117) , we had a brief break before heading back to PaniQ Room to play our second room of the day, Time Hotel (Lift) . I thought it had an interesting premise: Your grandfather owned a 1940s hotel that burned down with hidden gold inside, and now you have a chance to travel back in time t

PaniQ Room (Sydney, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: None Player limit: 2-8 Difficulty: 4/5 Date visited: January 2026 We had a few days left in the school holidays, so I decided to take the boys and their cousin C to PaniQ Room at The Rocks in Sydney. One of the rooms we wanted to do was their old classic, Supercell 117 , a traditional prison escape game. However, they happened to have a special, limited-time collaboration with the streaming platform Binge at th

Narrow Escape Rooms (Penrith, Australia) Time limit: 60-70 minutes Age limit: None Player limit: 2-8 Difficulty: Medium (50% success rate) Date visited: January 2026 The Hidden Temple was the main reason we made the drive back to Penrith. Given that it's Narrow Escape's newest and most ambitious room, we had pretty high expectations, especially after seeing some glowing reviews from play testers (mostly other Sydney escape room owners). Did it live up to the hype? Absolutel

Narrow Escape Rooms (Penrith, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: None Player limit: 2-6 Difficulty: Medium (60% success rate) Date visited: January 2026 The first time we made the drive to Penrith to play Narrow Escape was in January 2025. On that trip, we had a great time in Undetected and especially The Inheritance, and vowed to return to play Launch (their other available game at the time) once their new room (which would turn out to be The Hidden Temple ) was

Scram Escape Rooms - Church St, Parramatta (Sydney, Australia) Time limit: 70 minutes Age limit: 15+ recommended Player limit: 2-8 (4-8 recommended) Difficulty: 46% escape rate Date visited: January 2026 This was the third and final room of our father-and-sons adventure at Scram Parramatta. Of course, we saved the best for last. F.E.A.R. (an acronym for "Forget Everything And Run") is said to be one of Australia's scariest escape rooms, and I was initially trepidatious play

Scram Escape Rooms - Church St, Parramatta (Sydney, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: None Player limit: 2-8 Difficulty: 44% escape rate Date visited: January 2026 This was our second of three rooms during our father-and-sons adventure to Scram Parramatta. Despite the name, this was not a horror room and was more of a wizardry magic room. We had previously played The Wizard Chambers at Scram's O'Connell Street venue, which was pretty average, so I was keen to see

Scram Escape Rooms - Church St, Parramatta (Sydney, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: None Player limit: 2-8 Difficulty: 49% escape rate Awards: TERPECA Nominee (2022) Date visited: January 2026 It was still the school holidays, so we decided to finally head to Scram in Parramatta to tackle a few of their rooms. Hard to believe, but it took me over 125 rooms before I finally played an Alice in Wonderland theme. Here are my thoughts: This is one of Scram's older lo