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Missing
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


The St-Onge Case: Weekend at the Shack 2
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


Project R.E.S.E.T.
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


Grand Immersia Hotel
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


Circus of the Lost Souls
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


Salutem Medicina Institute
Immersia Escape Games (Boisbriand, Canada) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: Recommended 13+ Player limit: 2-5 Difficulty: Medium Awards: TERPECA Finalist (2020-2025), Best of Morty (2023), Golden Lock Award (2022) Date visited: July 2026 After completing Weekend at the Shack at Immersia's Laval location, we took a short drive north up to their Boisbriand venue to play all 5 games there. The order of play was recommended by the owner, so anyone looking to do something similar


Weekend at the Shack
Immersia Escape Games (Laval, Canada) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: Recommended 13+ Player limit: 2-6 Difficulty: Medium Date visited: July 2026 Here we go! After our side quest to Quebec City, we returned to Laval for the climax of our Canada trip — 4 full days of escape room goodness, starting with 6 straight games at the highly rated Immersia. Immersia has two locations, one in Laval and another about 10-15 minutes north in Boisbriand. Most of Immersia's top games are


The Longest Night
Eliviascape (Quebec City, Canada) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: Under 13 requires adult Player limit: 2-6 Difficulty: Medium Awards: TERPECA Finalist (2023), TERPECA Nominee (2020-2022, 2024-2025), Best of Morty (2023) Date visited: July 2026 This was the final game of our Quebec City side trip. We weren't initially going to play it, as we had planned to head to Shawinigan to play Escaparium's TERPECA-winning The Family. But when that game unfortunately closed down, we pi


The Dreamwalkers
Cabinet Mysteriis (Quebec City, Canada) Time limit: 60 Age limit: 6+ Player limit: 3-7 Difficulty: 4/5 Awards: TERPECA Top Rooms No. 47 (2020), TERPECA Finalist (2021-2025), Best of Morty (2025), Golden Lock Award (2023) Date visited: July 2026 After escaping Screaming Metal, we headed straight into our next game at Cabinet Mysteriis, The Dreamwalkers, their most decorated game that broke then TERPECA top 50 back in 2020. While I'm sure if was one of the best rooms in the wo


Screaming Metal
Cabinet Mysteriis (Quebec City, Canada) Time limit: 60 Age limit: 6+ Player limit: 2-6 Difficulty: 3/5 Awards: TERPECA Finalist (2023-2024), TERPECA Nominee (2020-2022, 2025), Best of Morty (2024) Date visited: July 2026 We had a great night in Quebec City and a terrific crepe breakfast at L'Épicurien the next morning before heading to our next escape room venue, Cabinet Mysteriis, who were kind enough to grant us a custom booking for 2 games before their official opening hou


Judgment Day
Eliviascape (Quebec City, Canada) Time limit: 75 minutes Age limit: Under 13 requires adult Player limit: 2-8 Difficulty: Hard Awards: TERPECA Top Rooms No. 89 (2024), TERPECA Finalist (2025), Best of Morty (2024-2025), Golden Lock Award (2025) Date visited: July 2026 We finished Abstraction 25 minutes early, so we had to wait about 45 minutes before our next game, Judgment Day (which was occupied by another group). We thus walked down the road for a delicious bubble tea from


Abstraction
Eliviascape (Quebec City, Canada) Time limit: 70 minutes Age limit: Under 13 requires adult Player limit: 2-8 Difficulty: Medium Awards: TERPECA Top Rooms No. 25 (2022), TERPECA Finalist (2023-2025), Best of Morty (2023, 2025), Golden Lock Award (2023) Date visited: July 2026 Quebec City was originally not in our itinerary due to time constraints, but thankfully, the escape room community convinced me that it was worth shaving a couple of days off Toronto and making a side tr


Escape Plan
Escaparium - Montreal (Dorval, Montreal, Canada) Time limit: 95 minutes Age limit: 10+ recommended (under 16 requires adult) Player limit: 4-6 Difficulty: 3/4 Awards: TERPECA Top Rooms No. 79 (2025), Best of Morty (2025), Golden Lock Award (2026) Date visited: July 2026 We finished up at Ezkapaz's delightful Opus Memori and headed straight to our first official Escaparium game, Escape Plan, ranked No. 79th in the world by TERPECA in 2025. Prison escape is one of the most comm


Opus Memori
Ezkapaz - Manoir (Montreal, Canada) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: 14+ recommended (under 16 requires adult) Player limit: 3-7 Difficulty: Medium Awards: TERPECA Nominee (2023-2025), Best of Morty (2025) Date visited: July 2026 We spent our first day in Montreal checking out the city as foodies and tourists in the morning — but we eventually had to get down to business and play some escape rooms! Our first Montreal room was Opus Memori at Ezkapaz, which is owned by world N


Down the Rabbit Hole
Improbable Escapes - Wonderland (Kingston, Canada) Time limit: 75 minutes Age limit: None Player limit: 3-7 Difficulty: Medium Date visited: July 2026 Our third and final room at Improbable Escapes in Kingston was the Alice in Wonderland-themed Down the Rabbit Hole. We've played this kind of theme before and it's never been one of my favourites, but this was Improbable's newest room and their reputation for delivering the goods speaks for itself. So we chose this over their o


The Mysterious Miseries of Franklin N. Stein
Improbable Escapes - Wonderland (Kingston, Canada) Time limit: 75 minutes Age limit: None Player limit: 2-14 (teams of 8+ can go head to head) Difficulty: Depends on number of players Awards: TERPECA Nominee (2024-2025), Best of Morty (2025), Golden Lock Award (2025) Date visited: July 2026 Our second room at Improbable Escapes was probably their most celebrated game, The Mysteries Miseries of Franklin N. Stein. I have to admit, I felt pretty stupid not realising that the nam


Neverland: Heist on the High Seas
Improbable Escapes - Wonderland (Kingston, Canada) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: None Player limit: 2-14 (teams of 8+ can go head to head) Difficulty: Hard Awards: TERPECA Nominee (2023-2025), Best of Morty (2022-2024) Date visited: July 2026 After finishing up our wonderful time in Toronto, we packed our bags and kicked off the drive toward Montreal. It was the long drive (5+ hours), but there was something to look forward to around the midway point — the highly touted,


The Tomb: Raiders of the Sword
Revo Escape (Scarborough, Toronto, Canada) Time limit: 100 minutes Age limit: Designed for 16+ (children require adult supervision) Player limit: 3-8 Difficulty: Expert Awards: TERPECA Top Rooms No. 96 (2025), Best of Morty (2025) Date visited: July 2026 We ended our marathon 6-game day across 4 venues with The Tomb: Raiders of the Sword, the first 2025 TERPECA winner of our Canada trip. I'm not gonna lie — I was nervous for this one. I didn't know what to expect, but I had h


The Steampunk Express
The Imaginarium (Scarborough, Toronto, Canada) Time limit: 75 minutes Age limit: Recommended 16+ (due to difficulty) Player limit: 3-6 Difficulty: 5/5 Awards: TERPECA Nominee (2020-2021, 2025), Best of Morty (2023-2024) Date visited: July 2026 Our second game at The Imaginarium was The Steampunk Express, rumoured to be the most difficult escape room in Toronto! To be honest, I wasn't sure we could handle it. If you've read the review for our first game, The Grand Wilshire Hot


The Grand Wilshire Hotel
The Imaginarium (Scarborough, Toronto, Canada) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: Under 12 requires adult Player limit: 3-10 Difficulty: 3/5 Awards: TERPECA Finalist (2019-2020), TERPECA Nominee (2021-2023, 2025), Best of Morty (2022-2023, 2025) Date visited: July 2026 This one was a roller coaster of emotions. I was originally very disappointed that we were going to have to leave out The Imaginarium from our itinerary because, initially, they were closed for relocation, and l
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