Strange World Escape Rooms - Darlinghurst (Sydney, Australia) Time limit: 70 minutes Age limit: Recommended 18+ (jump scares, coarse language); under 17 requires adult Player limit: 2-8 (recommended 4-6) Difficulty: 3/5 Date visited: November 2025 One of our most anticipated new rooms of the year was the new entry by Strange Worlds, which impressed us last year with their first room, Mrs Claws , a fun, campy horror-comedy. For the longest time, we thought the new room would

Escape Games Melbourne (Melbourne, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: Under 16 requires adult Player limit: 2-7 Difficulty: 4.5/5 Date visited: October 2025 We were still amped up after our transcendent experience at Carnivorou s in Geelong the night before, so my friend V and I decided to do one more room in the morning before my return flight to Sydney. As a two-man team, we decided upon Motel at Escape Games Melbourne to take advantage of a Groupon deal that ma

Containaphobia (Geelong, Australia) Time limit: 80 minutes Age limit: 18+ Player limit: 3-4 Difficulty: Expert Date visited: October 2025 Be prepared to run...   Some time over the past year, a legend began to grow about an escape room so wild, so insane, and so terrifying — yet so brilliant — that it had to be played to be believed, probably even multiple times. Countless people cried and gave up just minutes into the game, or worse, assaulted the live actor. Meanwhile, esc

The Mystery Rooms Geelong (Geelong, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: None Player limit: 4-10 Difficulty: 4/5 Date visited: October 2025 This room… this was not my kind of room.   It was bound to happen eventually – my first Indestroom experience. Indestroom is probably the best-known escape room supplier in the industry, offering a wide range of products ranging from escape cubes, portable games and escape room props to entire escape rooms. That Quizy game show I

Escape Room Geelong (Geelong, Australia) Time limit: 45 minutes (up to 60 minutes) Age limit: 18+ (no exceptions) Player limit: 2-4 Difficulty: Medium Date visited: October 2025 Our third room of the day took us out into the suburbs of Geelong and my first professional “in-home” escape room. Yes, this one is literally inside a person’s residence. Normally, I would not look to book such a room, but the owner and creator, Andrew, is a professional escape room designer and buil

Containaphobia (Geelong, Australia) Time limit: 70 minutes Age limit: 15+ (under 18 requires adult) Player limit: 2-5 (3-5 on Friday, Saturday, Sunday & Public Holidays) Difficulty: Hard Awards: TERPECA Nominee (2021-2024), Best of Morty (2023) Date visited: October 2025 After our first room in Queenscliff, we immediately headed to Containaphobia to play Mayhem Manor  as a team of 3 (as one team member is horror-averse). Situated in a massive barn in the Geelong suburb of Mo

Queenscliff Maritime Museum (Geelong, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: None Player limit: 2-6 Difficulty: Medium Date visited: October 2025 Here we go! My whirlwind Melbourne solo trip without the rest of the family was initially just to play Mayhem Manor  and Carnivorous  at Containaphobia in Geelong… but since I was going all that way and unlikely to be returning any time soon, it was only fitting that I packed the schedule with more escape rooms.   First up, B

Society of Curiosities Age: Recommended 14+ Players: 1-4 Playing time: 2-3 hours Difficulty: Medium Awards: Best Overall Table-Top Game Of The Year - Bullseye Award (2020) This was the last tabletop game we played before my solo Melbourne trip. Created by the Society of Curiosities, Madok’s Lost Treasure  is classified as a “mystery-in-a-box” game, a self-contained adventure that contains everything you need as long as you have an internet connection. You can purchase it outr

PostCurious Players: 1+ (1-3 recommended) Playing time: 2-4 hours Difficulty: 2.5/5 Awards: Golden Lock Award - Tabletop (2024) My solo Melbourne trip to play Carnivorous with the Escape Room Explorer was coming up, but I still had tabletop games I borrowed from him that we hadn’t played yet. One of them was The Morrison Game Factory  by PostCurious, a game I had heard great things about and had always wanted to play.   So, despite having a ton of work to finish, the boys and

Expedition Escape Rooms - Gladesville (Sydney, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: None Player limit: 2-6 Difficulty: Hard (41% success rate) Date visited: October 2025 We were originally supposed to play Strange World’s new room, Cabin Cult , as a mini celebration for my birthday just before solo my Melbourne trip, but I received a call the day before wondering if I would like to push back my booking.   As often is the case with new rooms, the release of Cabin Cult