Enigma-TIC (Blainville, Canada) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: Recommended 14+ Player limit: 3-5 Difficulty: Hard Awards: TERPECA Finalist (2022-2024), TERPECA Nominee (2020, 2025), Best of Morty (2023) Date visited: July 2026 One of the escape rooms I had wanted to try but just couldn't find time in the schedule for was Missing at Enigma-TIC in Blainville, about a 10-minute drive north of Boisbriand and a 20-minute drive north of Laval. But when my wife E suggested checki

Immersia Escape Games (Boisbriand, Canada) Time limit: 75 minutes Age limit: Recommended 13+ Player limit: 3-6 Difficulty: Hard Awards: TERPECA Finalist (2025) Date visited: July 2026 Our final game at Immersia was their latest and flashiest. The St-Onge Case is a direct but standalone sequel to Weekend at the Shack, the first game we played that very same day. The premise is like something you might see in a thriller film franchise. Set 10 years after the events at the shack

Immersia Escape Games (Boisbriand, Canada) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: Recommended 13+ Player limit: 2-5 Difficulty: Medium Awards: TERPECA Finalist (2020-2025), Best of Morty (2023), Golden Lock Award (2022) Date visited: July 2026 After completing Weekend at the Shack at Immersia's Laval location, we took a short drive north up to their Boisbriand venue to play all 5 games there. The order of play was recommended by the owner, so anyone looking to do something similar

Immersia Escape Games (Laval, Canada) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: Recommended 13+ Player limit: 2-6 Difficulty: Medium Date visited: July 2026 Here we go! After our side quest to Quebec City, we returned to Laval for the climax of our Canada trip — 4 full days of escape room goodness, starting with 6 straight games at the highly rated Immersia. Immersia has two locations, one in Laval and another about 10-15 minutes north in Boisbriand. Most of Immersia's top games are

Eliviascape (Quebec City, Canada) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: Under 13 requires adult Player limit: 2-6 Difficulty: Medium Awards: TERPECA Finalist (2023), TERPECA Nominee (2020-2022, 2024-2025), Best of Morty (2023) Date visited: July 2026 This was the final game of our Quebec City side trip. We weren't initially going to play it, as we had planned to head to Shawinigan to play Escaparium's TERPECA-winning The Family. But when that game unfortunately closed down, we pi

Eliviascape (Quebec City, Canada) Time limit: 75 minutes Age limit: Under 13 requires adult Player limit: 2-8 Difficulty: Hard Awards: TERPECA Top Rooms No. 89 (2024), TERPECA Finalist (2025), Best of Morty (2024-2025), Golden Lock Award (2025) Date visited: July 2026 We finished Abstraction 25 minutes early, so we had to wait about 45 minutes before our next game, Judgment Day (which was occupied by another group). We thus walked down the road for a delicious bubble tea from

Eliviascape (Quebec City, Canada) Time limit: 70 minutes Age limit: Under 13 requires adult Player limit: 2-8 Difficulty: Medium Awards: TERPECA Top Rooms No. 25 (2022), TERPECA Finalist (2023-2025), Best of Morty (2023, 2025), Golden Lock Award (2023) Date visited: July 2026 Quebec City was originally not in our itinerary due to time constraints, but thankfully, the escape room community convinced me that it was worth shaving a couple of days off Toronto and making a side tr

Ezkapaz - Manoir (Montreal, Canada) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: 14+ recommended (under 16 requires adult) Player limit: 3-7 Difficulty: Medium Awards: TERPECA Nominee (2023-2025), Best of Morty (2025) Date visited: July 2026 We spent our first day in Montreal checking out the city as foodies and tourists in the morning — but we eventually had to get down to business and play some escape rooms! Our first Montreal room was Opus Memori at Ezkapaz, which is owned by world N

The Imaginarium (Scarborough, Toronto, Canada) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: Under 12 requires adult Player limit: 3-10 Difficulty: 3/5 Awards: TERPECA Finalist (2019-2020), TERPECA Nominee (2021-2023, 2025), Best of Morty (2022-2023, 2025) Date visited: July 2026 This one was a roller coaster of emotions. I was originally very disappointed that we were going to have to leave out The Imaginarium from our itinerary because, initially, they were closed for relocation, and l

Daydream Adventures - Brimley (Toronto, Canada) Time limit: 75 minutes Age limit: None (8+ recommended) Player limit: 3-9 Difficulty: Medium Date visited: July 2026 We finished up at Looking Glass Adventures and grabbed a quick bite at Starbucks (I know, I know) before driving over to Daydream Adventures' new Brimley location (they also have an older location on Danforth). Brimley currently has two 75-minute rooms and we played them both, starting with the newer one, Brimley

Escape Games Canada (North York, Toronto, Canada) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: Under 12 requires adult Player limit: 3-8 Difficulty: 4/5 Date visited: July 2026 Our team of 3 exited The Haunting of Noriko and headed straight into Last Resort, another one of Escape Game Canada's better rated rooms. We had a chance to play their newest game, the train-themed The Heist of Black Bart, but were wary it might not be perfected yet since it's so new (in hindsight, we probably sh

Escape Games Canada (North York, Toronto, Canada) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: Under 12 requires adult Player limit: 3-8 Difficulty: 4/5 Awards: TERPECA Nominee (2019-2020, 2025), Best of Morty (2025) Date visited: July 2026 On this day, we went to Vaughan Mills for some shopping and lunch, and while E continued her shopping adventures, I took the boys south to North York, where we played two games at Escape Games Canada, starting with The Haunting of Noriko. They were k

Omventure - Markham (Markham, Canada) Time limit: 120 minutes Age limit: 16+ Player limit: 4-9 Difficulty: 3/5 Awards: TERPECA Finalist (2025), TERPECA Nominee (2023), Best of Morty (2023-2024) Date visited: July 2026 Sometimes, persistence pays off! Motel Betty was going to be the only playable 2025 TERPECA finalist in Canada that we were going to miss out on (Escaparium's The Family and Rain Corp. were no longer available) due to the 16+ age restriction. I emailed Omventure

Kuaitaoa Workshop - Taipei Qingguang Store [塊陶阿工作室 - 台北晴光店] (Taipei, Taiwan) Time limit: 90 minutes Age limit: Under 12 requires adult Player limit: 4-8 Difficulty: 4/5 Fear Factor: 4/5 Date visited: April 2026 Immediately after the incredible Cursed Rain, we headed to Kuaitaoa (塊陶阿) — a Mandarin homophone for “Get out of here!" — to play the horror game 醫怨, which I have roughly translated to Grudge Hospital. [醫怨 in Mandarin is pronounced "Yi Yuan", which sounds the same as

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

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

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 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

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

Xcape Wellington (Lower Hutt, New Zealand) Time limit: 60 minutes Player limit: 2-8 Age limit: Under 14s require adult in the room Difficulty: 8/10 Date visited: December 2025 This was the third 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: This was another strong room, set in an abandoned insane asylum. The backstory revolves arou