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

Scapegoats Escape Rooms (Upper Hutt, New Zealand) Time limit: 60 minutes Player limit: 2-6 Age limit: Under 14s require adult supervision Difficulty: 8/10 Date visited: December 2025 We finished The Cartel and went straight into Unholy Cottage , Scapegoats' highest rated room on Morty. This was a spooky horror room with occult themes, but it's all driven by atmosphere, with no live actors or major jump scares. Here are my thoughts: We enjoyed this one more than The Cartel,

Confinement Escape Rooms - Taupo (Taupo, New Zealand) Time limit: 60 minutes Player limit: 2-8 Age limit: Parental discretion advised for children aged 8-13 Difficulty: Standard (4/5), Advanced (5/5) Date visited: December 2025 When planning our New Zealand escape rooms, I mainly went for enthusiast recommendations or high Morty scores. But we were going to be staying in Taupo anyway, so I thought, "Why not book a game here?" The one we settled on was The Hunting Lodge at C

Escape Rooms New Zealand - Tauranga (Tauranga, New Zealand) Time limit: 90 minutes Player limit: 2-8 Difficulty: Hard Date visited: December 2025 After finishing at Get Out in Te Awamutu, we drove 90 minutes east to Tauranga, where we settled for the night. The next day — Z's 14th birthday — we went to the Tauranga branch of Escape Rooms New Zealand, intending to play The Orphan's Revenge: A Murder Mystery (a personal recommendation of the owner). This was also J's 100th ga

Escapist (Hamilton, New Zealand) Time limit: 75 minutes Player limit: 2-6 Difficulty: Hard (5/5) Date visited: December 2025 We were very fortunate that the earlier session of Bloodstone Keep was not booked out on this particular morning, so we were able to go straight into it after completing El Dorado . This one had a vampire theme and was considered spooky but not frightening, with darkness and atmosphere but no real scares. Here are my thoughts: The theming was again v

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