Orphanage

Quest Room (Brisbane)

Time limit: 60 minutes

Age limit: None

Player limit: 2-5

Difficulty: Hard 5/5

Awards: TERPECA Nominee (2024)

Date visited: September 2025

This was our third and final game at Quest Room during our Brisbane/Gold Coast trip. It’s also their newest game, released in late 2024. Here’s what I thought:

• We could really tell this was their newest room. It had a new-generation feel, with quality props and cinematic techniques that really enhanced the immersion and atmosphere.

• It had a creepy and eerie vibe, but was not a very scary room, with only a couple of potential and mild jump scares. It’s quite a theatrical room, with certain moments and visuals felt like they came straight out of a horror movie.

• It's not a very physical room, though a bit of crawling might be necessary.

• The puzzles were solid and had good overall flow, starting with some easy ones before ramping up to a few challenging head-scratchers. A couple of the concepts were quite innovative, though at times we only got through it with some fortuitous assumptions and guesswork. We did get stuck a couple of times but didn’t require hints in the end, finishing in under 47 minutes, so I would say it would be quite difficult for casual players.

• It’s not a huge room, but clever use of space and theming made the experience feel much bigger than it actually was.

• We don’t usually care about the storyline as much as other teams, but it’s great that the narrative wasn’t hard to follow and I thought it had some good reveals and twists. While the ending was good, what came before it had me hoping for something even more memorable and climatic.

Escape time: 46 minutes and 37 seconds

Theming	Atmosphere	Puzzles	Creativity	Fun
A	A	B+	A-	A-

Verdict: The Orphanage was a doozy and my favourite experience at Quest Room. Creepy, theatrical, and atmospheric, it also has an intriguing storyline bolstered by cool reveals and twists.

OVERALL RANK:

H	E	Z	J
A	B	A	A