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

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

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

Containaphobia (Geelong, Australia) Time limit: 80 minutes (intended to be played multiple times) Age limit: 18+ Player limit: 3-4 Difficulty: Expert Awards: TERPECA Top Room No. 77 (2025) 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

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

Project Immersive (Brisbane, Australia) Time limit: 50 minutes Age limit: None (under 14 requires adult) Player limit: 2-6 Difficulty: Medium Awards: TERPECA Finalist (2025), 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 t

Eclipse Escape (Gold Coast, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: None (but there are horror elements) Player limit: 2-9 (would not recommend more than 6) Difficulty: Medium to Advanced Awards: TERPECA Nominee (2024) Date visited: September 2025 I still remember when we first visited Eclipse over a year ago, the reason we avoided playing Retro Revenge  — despite it looking like a really cool room — was because we were terrified of the concept of having a live actor in

Cubic Escape Room (Sydney, Australia) Time limit: 80 minutes Age limit: 15+ recommended (flexible; under 18 requires 2 adults) Player limit: 3-7 Difficulty: 4/5 Date visited: July 2025 After playing Memento  and Project Delta  back-to-back, we welcomed a small break as the staff prepared our third and final room — The Soul Catcher — the newest addition to Cubic’s escape room roster. They were even nice enough to offer us free tea and soft drinks, which the kids promptly gul

Real Escape Game Crossing - Shibuya (Tokyo, Japan) Time limit: 45 minutes Age limit: 12+ recommended (6+ requires ticket) Player limit:...

Mission Escape - George Street (Sydney, Australia) Time limit: N/A (the experience takes around 90 minutes) Age limit: 15+ (at least 2 players 15+ required; flexible) Player limit: 2-6 Difficulty: 3/5 Awards: TERPECA Nominee (2023-2025), Best of Morty (2023) Date visited: June 2025 When I inquired with Mission Escape about the kids doing The Sacrifice and Intruders , I was told that they should have no problem with the former, but that the latter would be too scary for them.

Mission Escape - George Street (Sydney, Australia) Time limit: 100 minutes Age limit: Suitable for 15+ (at least 3 players 15+ required; flexible) Player limit: 3-7 Difficulty: 4/5 Awards: TERPECA Nominee (2022-2023), Best of Morty (2023) Date visited: June 2025 When we first started playing escape rooms, "scary" and "live actors" were two things we wanted no part of. Over time, however, my stance on that has softened, especially as experienced players have told me that thes

Scram Escape Rooms - O'Connell Street, Parramatta  (Sydney, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: 13+ recommended (flexible)...

Next Level Escape (Sydney, Australia) Time limit: 90 minutes Age limit: 16+ (negotiable for families) Player limit: 2-8 (4-6 recommended) Difficulty: 5/5 Awards: TERPECA Finalist (2024-2025), TERPECA Nominee (2023), Golden Lock Winner (2024), Best of Morty (2023) Date visited: April 2025 Next Level's Forest of Echoes might be the hardest room I've had to review to date. It's certainly the most polarising room among our players. The premise of Forest of Echoes is relatively

Next Level Escape (Sydney, Australia) Time limit: 75 minutes Age limit: None (but note there is low-level coarse language and very mild...

Tokyo Mystery Circus (Tokyo, Japan) Time limit: 50 minutes Age limit: None Player limit: 2-4 Difficulty: Expert Date visited: January...

Strange World Escape Rooms - Darlinghurst (Sydney, Australia) UPDATED FEB 2025 (Strange Worlds has made some changes to this room since we visited right at the start) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: None (adult required if anyone is under 13) [previously 15] Player limit: 2-8 (recommended 4-6) [previously 2-6] Difficulty: 4/5 [previously 3/5] Awards: TERPECA Nominee (2025) Date visited: October 2024 [Note: According to the website, you can now opt for the "non-scary vers

The Cool Space (Sydney, Australia) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: Recommended for 16+ (mild horror themes, jump scares, live actor)...

Eclipse Escape (Gold Coast, Australia) Time limit: 60 mins Age limit: None (spooky atmosphere; occult themes; live actor - can opt out)...