Escape This (Sydney, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: 18+ Player limit: 2-4 Difficulty: 8/10 Date visited: February 2026 My buddy V, with whom I played a bunch of rooms with in Geelong and Melbourne last year (including the transcendent Carnivorous ), was in Sydney for a brief work/family visit in February. With only a couple of hours to spare in our busy schedules, we of course had to play an escape room! Coming off the surprisingly solid Frankenstein Resurrecti

Labyrinth Escape Rooms (Parramatta, Australia) Time limit: 60 Age limit: None Player limit: 2-8 (recommend 4+) Difficulty: Hard Date visited: January 2026 Outbreak was our third and final room at Labyrinth, and also reportedly their hardest, with an escape rate of about 10% (according to our GM)! How did we go? This was easily my favourite of the three rooms we did at Labyrinth, though it was not without flaws. But as an escape room experience, it felt like a step up compar

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 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

BE Escape (Sydney, Australia) Time limit: 75 minutes Age limit: 14+ Player limit: 2-8 Difficulty: 4.5/5 Date visited: December 2025 [This review is written by Z, who played this room with 2 friends during the school holidays. We initially had no intention of playing BE Escape, which opened in February 2025, because of its fake 5-star Google reviews and exorbitant pricing, though there now appear to be some genuine positive reviews and pricing has come down significantly to b

The Cipher Room - St Peters (Sydney, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: Recommended for age 12+ (creepy atmosphere/themes) Player limit: 2-8 (recommended 3-6) Difficulty: 4/5 Date visited: November 2025 It's hard to believe, but the last time we visited The Cipher Room was to play Espionage in October 2024. At the time, we were optimistic we would be back to play Metamorphosis soon-ish, though I always prefer that escape room builders take their time to deliver t

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

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