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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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