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

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 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

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

Cubic Escape Room (Sydney, Australia) Time limit: 90 minutes Age limit: 12+ recommended (under 15 requires an adult) Player limit: 2-10...

Stupid Particle - Nanjing E. Road Branch (Taipei, Taiwan) Time limit: 70 minutes Age limit: 6+ (ages 6-12 require an adult) Player...

Rostart Games - Nanjing Samin Pavilion (Taipei, Taiwan) Time limit: 80 minutes (70 + 10) Age limit: Children under 12 require an adult...

Mission Escape - Pitt Street (Sydney, Australia) Time limit: 80 minutes Age limit: Suitable for 15+ (age flexible - email to ask) Player...

Next Level Escape (Sydney, Australia) Time limit: 75 minutes Age limit: None Player limit: 4-14 (Recommended 4-10) Difficulty: 4/5 Awards: TERPECA Nominee (2021, 2025), TERPECA Finalist (2022-2024), Best of Morty 2023 Date visited: September 2024 My nieces caught on to our family’s newfound escape room obsession, so we thought it would be cool to all do a fun one together. However, with 8 of us (our family of 4, plus my niece C, who has been to a couple with us already, plus

Next Level Escape (Sydney, Australia) Time limit: 75 mins Age limit: None Player limit: 2-12 (up to 24 due to 2 identical rooms) (recommended 4-8 per room) Difficulty: 4/5 Awards: TERPECA Nominee (2020, 2024-2025), TERPECA Finalist (2019, 2021-2023) Date visited: July 2024 We caught the escape room bug on the Gold Coast and were eager to try some of the rooms in Sydney upon our return. Based on a recommendation, we decided to go with Ex Libris at Next Level Escape, which is

Eclipse Escape (Gold Coast, Australia) Time limit: 60 mins Age limit: None Player limit: 2-14 (recommended 2-8) Difficulty: Medium...