Labyrinth Escape Rooms (Parramatta, Australia) Time limit: 60 Age limit: None Player limit: 2-6 Difficulty: Medium to Hard Date visited: January 2026 Note: There are some discrepancies about whether this room is called Game Night or Games Night , as it appears as both on the Labyrinth website as well as other third-party sources. To me, Game Night sounds better, so that's what I've gone with, Our second room at Labyrinth was Game Night , which we tackled after returning from

Labyrinth Escape Rooms (Parramatta, Australia) Time limit: 60 Age limit: None Player limit: 2-8 (recommend 4) Difficulty: Medium to Hard Awards: TERPECA Nominee (2022) Date visited: January 2026 Our final escape room adventure before the start of the 2026 school year took us back to Parramatta, this time to Labyrinth Escape, a small business that opened back in 2015. We decided to take advantage of a Sunday special they had at the time, where children under 18 received a 50%

PaniQ Room (Sydney, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: 2 players must be 16+ (flexible) Player limit: 3-9 Difficulty: 4/5 Date visited: January 2026 After completing Run (Supercell 117) , we had a brief break before heading back to PaniQ Room to play our second room of the day, Time Hotel (Lift) . I thought it had an interesting premise: Your grandfather owned a 1940s hotel that burned down with hidden gold inside, and now you have a chance to travel back in time t

PaniQ Room (Sydney, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: None Player limit: 2-8 Difficulty: 4/5 Date visited: January 2026 We had a few days left in the school holidays, so I decided to take the boys and their cousin C to PaniQ Room at The Rocks in Sydney. One of the rooms we wanted to do was their old classic, Supercell 117 , a traditional prison escape game. However, they happened to have a special, limited-time collaboration with the streaming platform Binge at th

Narrow Escape Rooms (Penrith, Australia) Time limit: 60-70 minutes Age limit: None Player limit: 2-8 Difficulty: Medium (50% success rate) Date visited: January 2026 The Hidden Temple was the main reason we made the drive back to Penrith. Given that it's Narrow Escape's newest and most ambitious room, we had pretty high expectations, especially after seeing some glowing reviews from play testers (mostly other Sydney escape room owners). Did it live up to the hype? Absolutel

Narrow Escape Rooms (Penrith, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: None Player limit: 2-6 Difficulty: Medium (60% success rate) Date visited: January 2026 The first time we made the drive to Penrith to play Narrow Escape was in January 2025. On that trip, we had a great time in Undetected and especially The Inheritance, and vowed to return to play Launch (their other available game at the time) once their new room (which would turn out to be The Hidden Temple ) was

Scram Escape Rooms - Church St, Parramatta (Sydney, Australia) Time limit: 70 minutes Age limit: 15+ recommended Player limit: 2-8 (4-8 recommended) Difficulty: 46% escape rate Date visited: January 2026 This was the third and final room of our father-and-sons adventure at Scram Parramatta. Of course, we saved the best for last. F.E.A.R. (an acronym for "Forget Everything And Run") is said to be one of Australia's scariest escape rooms, and I was initially trepidatious play

Scram Escape Rooms - Church St, Parramatta (Sydney, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: None Player limit: 2-8 Difficulty: 44% escape rate Date visited: January 2026 This was our second of three rooms during our father-and-sons adventure to Scram Parramatta. Despite the name, this was not a horror room and was more of a wizardry magic room. We had previously played The Wizard Chambers at Scram's O'Connell Street venue, which was pretty average, so I was keen to see

Scram Escape Rooms - Church St, Parramatta (Sydney, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: None Player limit: 2-8 Difficulty: 49% escape rate Awards: TERPECA Nominee (2022) Date visited: January 2026 It was still the school holidays, so we decided to finally head to Scram in Parramatta to tackle a few of their rooms. Hard to believe, but it took me over 125 rooms before I finally played an Alice in Wonderland theme. Here are my thoughts: This is one of Scram's older lo

Escape Reality - Central Coast (Tuggerah, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes Player limit: 2-6 players Age limit: Under 15 requires adult Difficulty: 3/5 Date visited: January 2026 This was the our fourth and final room at Escape Reality on the Central Coast. Ranked as their hardest and best game, Sinister is a horror game set in an abandoned house you own, and you must find the property deed so you can sell it! Did it live up to the hype? Sinister was easily Escape Reality

Escape Reality - Central Coast (Tuggerah, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes Player limit: 2-6 players Age limit: Under 15 requires adult Difficulty: 3/5 Date visited: January 2026 This was the third of our four rooms at Escape Reality on the Central Coast. This Jumanji-themed room was their second highest-rated game on Morty, and I made sure to check that this is an original game and not the generic Indestroom Jumanji game that can be found in multiple locations across Austr

Escape Reality - Central Coast (Tuggerah, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes Player limit: 2-6 players Age limit: Under 15 requires adult Difficulty: 3/5 Date visited: January 2026 This was the second of our four rooms at Escape Reality on the Central Coast. It's their third highest-rated room but regarded as their most difficult one according to the GM and their website. So how was it? This was a good room, better in just about every respect compared to the first room we did

Escape Reality - Central Coast (Tuggerah, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes Player limit: 2-6 players Age limit: Under 15 requires adult Difficulty: 3/5 Date visited: January 2026 It was still the school holidays, so we decided to take an overnight trip to the Central Coast to play the 4 games at Escape Reality in Tuggerah. All 4 of their games are rated quite highly on Morty, so we went in with moderate expectations. I booked the games in the order of lowest to highest rate

Escape This (Sydney, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: 13+ Player limit: 3-8 (4-8 on Friday and Saturday peak times) Difficulty: 8/10 Date visited: January 2026 The first Escape This game we played was The Wizard's Chamber , which was gorgeous but had middling puzzles. The second one we played was Kraken: Nemo's Revenge , which we did not like at all. But I wanted to take the boys to their first escape room of 2026 and I saw that their newest room, Frankenstein Re

Escape Rooms Wellington (Wellington, New Zealand) Time limit: 60 minutes Player limit: 2-6 players (recommended 4-5) Age limit: Under 16 requires adult Difficulty: Hard Date visited: December 2025 This was our third and final room at Escape Room Wellington. It’s also their newest and most high-tech room. We did it on separate day to the other two rooms, returning in the morning to play the room before a visit to the WETA Workshop and our return flight back to Sydney. Here ar

Escape Rooms Wellington (Wellington, New Zealand) Time limit: 60 minutes Player limit: 2-7 players (recommended 4-6) Age limit: Under 16 requires adult Difficulty: Tricky (4/5) Date visited: December 2025 Disclaimer: Our second room at Escape Rooms Wellington was provided by owner Steve free of charge. He saw that I had booked his 2 other rooms and was kind enough to throw in The Diamond Heist  on the house. That said, this in no way affected my thoughts on the room itself:

Escape Rooms Wellington (Wellington, New Zealand) Time limit: 60 minutes Player limit: 2-8 players (recommended 4-6) Age limit: Under 16 requires adult Difficulty: Hard Date visited: December 2025 Our final set of games on our New Zealand trip were at Wellington Escape Rooms. I thought, since we were in New Zealand, we should play a locally themed one, so I booked Operation Beehive (the “Beehive” is the Executive Wing of the New Zealand Parliament). Was it any good?   This

Escape Mate (Wellington, New Zealand) Time limit: 60 minutes Player limit: 4-16 players Age limit: Recommended 8+ Difficulty: 8.5/10 Awards: TERPECA Nominee (2024) Date visited: December 2025 For our second Escape Mate room, Atlantis , we travelled south to their Victoria Street location after a visit to the Wellington Botanic Garden and lunch at Flight Coffee Hangar Cafe. This was a very hyped room, given that it has received a lot of glowing reviews from casual players and

Escape Mate (Wellington, New Zealand) Time limit: 60 minutes Player limit: 2-6 Age limit: Recommended 8+ Difficulty: 6/10 Date visited: December 2025 We finally arrived at Wellington, the final leg of our New Zealand trip. According to my research, the dominant escape room company in the CBD area was Escape Mate with three rooms — Ancient Temple , Spaceship , and Atlantis . We initially booked all three rooms but later decided to cancel Spaceship (the lowest ranked of the t

Xcape Wellington (Lower Hutt, New Zealand) Time limit: 60 minutes Player limit: 2-8 Age limit: Under 14s require adult in the room Difficulty: 6/10 Date visited: December 2025 This was the fifth of our 5 rooms in one day at Xcape — one of the highest rated escape room establishments in New Zealand — situated in Lower Hutt, about 15 minutes north of Wellington.   Here are my thoughts: All of Xcape’s rooms are highly rated, but this one was No. 1 on Morty in the Wellington reg