Our October Adelaide trip was planned back in February (I know, too eager), and we had no idea at the time how busy we were going to be at this time of the year due to a variety of circumstances. So as we dragged ours butts to the airport, with J feeling under the weather and E and I utterly agree exhausted, Adelaide was not looking like the best idea, especially as we crammed a lot of rooms into our first couple of days to take advantage of massive weekday discounts. In hind

Real Escape Game Crossing - Shibuya (Tokyo, Japan) Time limit: 30+3 minutes Age limit: Under 12 requires adult Player limit: 2-4 Difficulty: Hard Date visited: July 2026 The final game of our Canada-Japan trip brought us back to Scrap's Shibuya venue for Escape from the Underwater Puzzle Challenge. Like many of Scrap's puzzle-based experiences, this one was not a typical escape room and was focused entirely on solving a lot of puzzles in a short period of time. But was it a g

Real Escape Game Asakusa (Tokyo, Japan) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: Under 12 requires adult Player limit: 2-4 Difficulty: Expert Awards: TERPECA Nominee (2025), Golden Lock Award (2026) Date visited: July 2026 After tackling Escape from the Haunted Manor, we went to a nearby convenience store to cool off in the air conditioning and grab an ice cream before returning to Scrap Asakusa to tackle A Challenge from the Crafting Genius, our first "hall type" escape room. We we

Real Escape Game Asakusa (Tokyo, Japan) Time limit: 40 minutes Age limit: Under 12 requires adult Player limit: 2-6 Difficulty: Easy Date visited: July 2026 It was E's birthday, so we gave her the day off to go shopping in Tokyo while I took the boys back to Asakusa to play a game we had wanted to play ever since we started researching Japanese escape rooms in 2024: Escape from the Haunted Manor. Back then, the kids were a bit young and we were somewhat wary of scary rooms, b

Real Escape Game Ikebukuro (Tokyo, Japan) Time limit: 50 minutes game time (approx. 80 minutes including intro and debrief) Age limit: None Player limit: 2-6 Difficulty: Expert Date visited: July 2026 After being amazed by Escape from the Red Room during a previous visit to Japan, we were very excited to hear that its sequel, Escape from the Blue Room, had finally landed at Scrap's new Ikebukuro location. And so after our long flight from Montreal to Tokyo, we got a good nigh

Sauve Qui Peut (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Canada) Time limit: 120 minutes Age limit: 16+ (flexible — email and ask) Player limit: 4-6 (recommended 4) (2 players okay on Tuesday-Friday before 4pm) Difficulty: Medium Awards: TERPECA Top Rooms No. 19 (2025), Golden Lock Award (2026), Best of Morty (2025) Date visited: July 2026 *Physicality and health warning: make sure you read the waiver carefully and speak to someone if you have any health issues or concerns. The Castle of Et

Sauve Qui Peut (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Canada) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: Recommended 8+ Player limit: 2-8 (recommended 3-6) Difficulty: Advanced Awards: TERPECA Finalist (2020-2022), TERPECA Nominee (2023-2025), Golden Lock Award (2019) Date visited: July 2026 Our third game at Sauve Qui Peut (SQP) was kind of a throw-in because we had time to kill before our final game, The Castle of Eternal Suffering, the main reason we made the drive down from Laval. I made sure

Sauve Qui Peut (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Canada) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: Recommended 8+ Player limit: 4 only (max. and min.) Difficulty: Variable (adaptive) Awards: TERPECA Finalist (2022-2025) Date visited: July 2026 Our second game at Sauve Qui Peut was the highly anticipated Falderon Forest, their most high-profile game before The Castle of Eternal Suffering came along. We were quite fortunate to be able to play it as the game shut down for a while earlier in th

Sauve Qui Peut (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Canada) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: Recommended 8+ Player limit: 2-8 (recommended 4-6) Difficulty: Intermediate Awards: TERPECA Nominee (2022-2023, 2025) Date visited: July 2026 Following an incredible couple of days at Escaparium Laval, we finished up our Canada escape room adventures at Sauve Qui Peut (SQP) in Saint-Jean, located about 40km southeast of downtown Montreal. We were initially going to do SQP earlier and leave Esc

Escaparium (Laval, Canada) Time limit: 150 minutes Age limit: Recommended 10+ (Under 16 requires adult) Player limit: 4-6 Difficulty: Hard Awards: TERPECA Top Rooms No. 1 (2024,-2025), Best of Morty (2024-2025), Golden Lock Award (2025) Date visited: July 2026 Magnifico really needs no introduction. Built by a team of 25 people (20 full-time, 5 part-time) for CAD 1.4 million over nearly a year and a half. Voted the best escape room in the world by TERPECA in a landslide in 20

Escaparium (Laval, Canada) Time limit: 75 minutes Age limit: Recommended 10+ (Under 16 requires adult) Player limit: 3-8 Difficulty: Expert Awards: TERPECA Top Rooms No. 25 (2021), No. 31 (2022), No. 28 (2023), No. 37 (2024), No. 78 (2025), TERPECA Finalist (2020; No. 83), Best of Morty (2023-2025) Date visited: July 2026 This was our penultimate game at Escaparium Laval. The Lost Island of the Voodoo Queen is one of their older games (having debuted on TERPECA back in 2020),

Escaparium (Laval, Canada) Time limit: 90 minutes Age limit: Recommended 10+ (Under 16 requires adult) Player limit: 4-8 Difficulty: Hard Awards: TERPECA Top Rooms No. 4 (2023), No. 3 (2024), No. 8 (2025), Best of Morty (2023-2025), Golden Lock Award (2024) Date visited: July 2026 Our second day at Escaparium Laval started off with The Forgotten Cathedral, one of my most anticipated games ever since I started researching the best escape rooms in the world 2 years ago. We were

Escaparium (Laval, Canada) Time limit: 120 minutes Age limit: Recommended 10+ (Under 16 requires adult) Player limit: 4-8 Difficulty: Expert Awards: TERPECA Top Rooms No. 17 (2022), No. 7 (2023), No. 14 (2024), No. 36 (2025), Best of Morty (2023, 2025), Golden Lock Award (2024) Date visited: July 2026 Our third room at Escaparium Laval was also their most mysterious. I had heard rave reviews about Wardrobe for Sale dating back to a couple of years ago, but everyone who has pl

Escaparium (Laval, Canada) Time limit: 99 minutes Age limit: Recommended 10+ (Under 16 requires adult) Player limit: 4-8 Difficulty: Hard Awards: TERPECA Top Rooms No. 5 (2025), Best of Morty (2025), Golden Lock Award (2026) Date visited: July 2026 Ctrl Alt Reboot was our second game at Escaparium Laval. I'll be upfront: This is now my No. 1 escape room of all time, alongside Magnifico (which I initially ranked lower but after much though and reflection I now have them as 1A

Escaparium (Laval, Canada) Time limit: 75 minutes Age limit: Recommended 10+ (Under 16 requires adult) Player limit: 3-8 Difficulty: Hard Awards: TERPECA Finalist (2024-2025), TERPECA Nominee (2023), Best of Morty (2023) Date visited: July 2026 I'm excited. Our two-week trip in Canada finally brought us to Escaparium Laval, the No. 1 escape room company in the world. We played 6 games across 2 days here, starting with their lowest-ranked game, Final Stop - V2 (ranked 203 by T

Enigma-TIC (Blainville, Canada) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: Recommended 14+ Player limit: 3-5 Difficulty: Hard Awards: TERPECA Finalist (2022-2024), TERPECA Nominee (2020, 2025), Best of Morty (2023) Date visited: July 2026 One of the escape rooms I had wanted to try but just couldn't find time in the schedule for was Missing at Enigma-TIC in Blainville, about a 10-minute drive north of Boisbriand and a 20-minute drive north of Laval. But when my wife E suggested checki

Immersia Escape Games (Boisbriand, Canada) Time limit: 75 minutes Age limit: Recommended 13+ Player limit: 3-6 Difficulty: Hard Awards: TERPECA Finalist (2025) Date visited: July 2026 Our final game at Immersia was their latest and flashiest. The St-Onge Case is a direct but standalone sequel to Weekend at the Shack, the first game we played that very same day. The premise is like something you might see in a thriller film franchise. Set 10 years after the events at the shack

Immersia Escape Games (Boisbriand, Canada) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: Suitable for all ages Player limit: 2-6 Difficulty: Hard Awards: TERPECA Top Rooms No. 98 (2023), Finalist (2023-2024), Best of Morty (2023, 2025), Golden Lock Award (2024) Date visited: July 2026 Project R.E.S.E.T. was our fifth room at Immersia and the fourth at their Boisbriand location. It's also Immersia's highest-rated game on Morty, so expectations were high. Did the game live up to them? Thi

Immersia Escape Games (Boisbriand, Canada) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: Suitable for all ages Player limit: 2-6 Difficulty: Hard Awards: TERPECA Finalist (2020-2025), Best of Morty (2023-2024), Golden Lock Award (2020), Bullseye Award for Best Overall "In-Person Escape Room" Of The Year (2022) Date visited: July 2026 Grand Immersia Hotel was our fourth Immersia room and third at their Boisbriand venue. I'm not gonna lie — I was under a complete misapprehension as to what

Immersia Escape Games (Boisbriand, Canada) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: Suitable for all ages Player limit: 2-6 Difficulty: Hard Awards: TERPECA Nominee (2025) Date visited: July 2026 Circus of the Lost Souls was our third Immersia game and second at their Laval location. It is Laval’s lesser known circus room, but don’t mistake it as a Temu version of Escaparium’s Magnifico, because they are completely different types of games. The room was previously closed down due to