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

Scram Escape Rooms - Penrith (Sydney, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: None (best suited to 13+) Player limit: 2-8 Difficulty: Hard Scare Factor: 4/5 Date visited: October 2025 It was only a few days before our scheduled trip to Scram Penrith that I discovered they had just opened a brand new room called The Butcher , a huge surprise considering their previous room, Plagued , was released not that long ago. Being the escape room degenerates that we are, I simply

Scram Escape Rooms - Penrith (Sydney, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: None (best suited to 13+) Player limit: 2-8 Difficulty: Hard Scare Factor: 3/5 Date visited: October 2025 Plagued  is one of Scram’s new rooms and one of the main reasons we decided to make the drive to Penrith. We had never played a Black Death room before and were curious to see how such an experience would be designed and executed. Here are my thoughts: This was a great room, not very scary

Scram Escape Rooms - Penrith (Sydney, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: None Player limit: 2-4 per team Difficulty: Variable Date visited: October 2025 Prison Island is listed as an escape room on platforms such as Morty because it has puzzles to solve, but it is definitely not your traditional escape room. The “prison” has 30 cells, each containing a different game. Think of it as 30 mini escape rooms. You get a card, which you swipe to unlock the cell. If it is

Scram Escape Rooms - Penrith (Sydney, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: None (best suited to 10+) Player limit: 2-8 Difficulty: Medium Date visited: October 2025 The school holidays are always the perfect opportunity to play more escape rooms! On this October day, we decided to make the drive out to Penrith to play 4 games in a row at Scram, including Prison Island  and their brand new room, The Butcher .   First up, their Harry Potter-style magic room, The Sorcer

Scarborough Fair Escape Rooms (Sydney, Australia) Time limit: 70 minutes Age limit: None Player limit: 3-8 (5+ recommended) Difficulty: 4/5 (we thought it was way harder) Date visited: October 2025 After our record-setting time escaping 10:79 at Rigatoni Tower , we decided to tackle Scarborough Fair’s latest game, Portal , said to be their NEW hardest room. As the room only opened a week or two ago, we did feel a little like play testers, but we were riding high and ready to

Scarborough Fair Escape Rooms (Sydney, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: None Player limit: 2-6 Difficulty: 4.5/5 Date visited: October 2025 Yippy-ki-yay, new record holders! I first visited Scarborough Fair not long after they had opened, playing The Curse of Davy Jones with the kids and their cousins. It was a solid room with good and challenging puzzles, but we felt some tweaks had to be made in order for their games to live up to their full potential — not un

Project Immersive (Brisbane, Australia) Time limit: 50 minutes Age limit: None (under 14 requires adult) Player limit: 2-6 Difficulty: Medium Awards: TERPECA Nominee (2024), Best of Morty (2023-2024) Date visited: September 2025 We went straight into Project Immersive’s second room, Area 1: Nuclear Enrichment, after completing the excellent Area 1: The Portal . I won’t rehash all the general comments about Project Immersive here. You can read up on that in my previous review

Project Immersive (Brisbane, Australia) Time limit: 50 minutes Age limit: None (under 14 requires adult) Player limit: 2-6 Difficulty: Medium Awards: TERPECA Nominee (2024), Best of Morty (2023-2024) Date visited: September 2025 On the last day of our trip, just before our flight back to Sydney, we left the Gold Coast early and headed back to Brisbane to visit Project Immersive, who have the top two rooms in the Brisbane/Gold Coast region on Morty. So, did we leave the best

Fox in a Box (Gold Coast, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: None Player limit: 2-6 Difficulty: Hard Date visited: September 2025 Our final game on the Gold Coast was a last-minute addition (escape room addicts doing what escape room addicts do). I’ve always had a fascination with the Zodiac Killer, and this was one of their other rooms that got decent reviews, so we ended up choosing it over Wild West Saloon , which is apparently on the easier side. Here are my tho

Eclipse Escape (Gold Coast, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes (formerly 75 minutes) Age limit: None Player limit: 2-12 (would no recommend more than 6) Difficulty: Medium or Hard Awards: TERPECA Nominee (2024) Date visited: September 2025 Much to our disappointment, weren’t able to play The Flaming Pearl  at Eclipse last year we were on the Gold Coast because its release was delayed. We had heard many good things about the room since then, and were very eager to play this Ch

Eclipse Escape (Gold Coast, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: None (but there are horror elements) Player limit: 2-9 (would not recommend more than 6) Difficulty: Medium to Advanced Awards: TERPECA Nominee (2024) Date visited: September 2025 I still remember when we first visited Eclipse over a year ago, the reason we avoided playing Retro Revenge  — despite it looking like a really cool room — was because we were terrified of the concept of having a live actor in

DarkPark Games Age: 14+ recommended Players: 1-4 Play Time: 1.5-3 hours Difficulty: Medium Awards: Golden Lock Award - Tabletop (2024) This was the second DarkPark tabletop escape game that our friend the Escape Room Explorer lent us while we were on the Gold Coast and our third tabletop game (played the next morning).   After Witchery Spell , our expectations were quite high, so I’m glad to say we enjoyed Never House  even more. Personally, I think the two games are probably

Sherlocked - Home Mysteries Age: 12+ recommended Players: 1-4 Play Time: 120 minutes Difficulty: Hard Awards: Golden Lock Award - Tabletop (2024) Our second tabletop escape game on the Gold Coast was The Medusa Report by Home Mysteries, the tabletop label of the Amsterdam-based physical escape room outfit Sherlocked, best known for the TERPECA Top Room The Alchemist . It is the sequel to the popular Vandermist Dossier , which we have not played, though we understand this does

DarkPark Games Age: 12+ recommended Players: 1-4 Play Time: 1.5-4 hours Difficulty: Medium Awards: Best Overall Table-Top Game of the Year - Bullseye Award (2020), Gold - Player's Choice - Table-Top Games - Bullseyes Award (2020) During our Brisbane /Gold Coast trip, we managed to catch up with our buddy the Escape Room Explorer and he was kind enough to lend us some of his tabletop escape games — all of which I had really wanted to buy online but held off because of the exor

Lost Locks (Gold Coast, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: None Player limit: 2-8 Difficulty: Medium Awards: TERPECA Nominee (2024) Date visited: September 2025 Gripped with a sense of FOMO, I decided to book in a room at Lost Locks towards the end of my planning for our Brisbane/Gold Coast trip. I had heard good things about a couple of the rooms at this venue and wanted to see for myself. So was it worth it? The first thing to note is that Mad Monster  is a singl

Fox in a Box (Gold Coast, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: None Player limit: 2-8 Difficulty: 4/5 Date visited: September 2025 Right after playing our very first escape room at Eclipse in July 2024, we asked our GM which other rooms she recommended, and she said one of her favourites was The Other Side  at Fox in a Box. It’s taken us more than 14 months, but we finally got to play The Other Side  on our Brisbane/Gold Coast trip in September 2025. My thoughts are a

Padlock'd (Gold Coast, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: None Player limit: 2-8 Difficulty: 4/5 Date visited: September 2025 This was the fourth game of our September Queensland trip and first on the Gold Coast, as well as our first at Padlock’d. We had heard that Padlock’d was pivoting towards purchased, ready-made games from escape game sellers such as Indestroom, so we initially did not plan on playing this room. But we then found out that this was one of their

Quest Room (Brisbane) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: None Player limit: 2-5 Difficulty: Hard 5/5 Awards: TERPECA Nominee (2024) Date visited: September 2025 This was our third and final game at Quest Room during our Brisbane/Gold Coast trip. It’s also their newest game, released in late 2024. Here’s what I thought: We could really tell this was their newest room. It had a new-generation feel, with quality props and cinematic techniques that really enhanced the immersion a

Quest Room (Brisbane, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: None Player limit: 2-5 Difficulty: Medium 3/5 Awards: Best of Morty (2024) Date visited: September 2025 This was our second game at Quest Room following Sherlocked . We’ve always been a fan of the steampunk theme, though the boys and I were weary after our first steampunk-style room, Kraken: Nemo's Revenge at Escape This, was a huge disappointment. Here are my main points: We really enjoyed this one, and E a