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

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