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