Image used for inspiration. Guide last updated in November 2023.
Remember the games we played growing up around finding missing objects, solving riddles, and frantically fighting against time to escape a locked room and win? What a rush. Experiencing all that adrenaline and fun in real-life escape rooms, is pretty much our childhood dreams come true.
Escape rooms are a great choice for families and friends, tourists, gamers, enthusiasts, and even a team building session between co-workers.
Here’s 6 of the best escape rooms in Adelaide.
1. ESC ROOMS
This Adelaide escape room venue was opened up by the young siblings Alana and Niko Pappas who were contestants in The Amazing Race.
Their latest Da Vinci-themed escape room launched last November, is filled with intrigue, suspense and excitement. You and your team will be enlisted to explore Leonardo Da Vinci’s underground secret lair, uncover some of his greatest inventions, and make it out alive!
Two of the four themed rooms are also inspired by movies and we’re super keen to try them out. Saw is a horror themed room based on the Saw film franchise, where you have to serial killer Jigsaw’s slaughterhouse. The Hangover Room is light, comic and filled with confusion just like the movies where three friends get wrecked on their Las Vegas bachelor trip.
In the Spy Room, you’ll have to break into the UN headquarters to diffuse a bomb in one of the most challenging escape rooms in Adelaide.
Check them all out here.
2. URBAN MYSTERIES CO
Opened by three friends with a mutual love for gaming: Drew McGiffert, David Walker and Adam Winston, Urban Mysteries Co was created in October 2021.
The aim at Urban Mysteries Co isn’t to escape quickly, but to immerse yourself into the storyline. Participants will have a full hour to solve puzzles, collect evidence and unravel an enthralling mystery.
Adding onto their popular rooms: The Collector and The Missing Professor, their latest adventure called Lucidity is bound to enchant and enthral. Lucidity is a mind-bending and puzzling journey into the psyche of a character who has become trapped within their own dreams.
Read more here.
3. ESCAPE HUNT
One of Adelaide’s most exciting venues, each brilliantly imaginative game takes place in a themed room designed with incredible attention to detail so you can really lose yourself in the experience.
Free yourself from a locked shark cage in Great White Killer before they come circling, rescue a deadly scientist before his secret formula is exploited in The Deadly Discovery, retrieve three precious objects from a sinister dark magician in The Collector’s Curse or puzzle your way through wonderland in Down the Rabbit Hole.
More info here.
4. ADVENTURE ROOMS
A live escape-the-room experience, perfect for groups of 2-68 people. Choose from a standard escape option for 2-7 players or a dual adventure of 8-14 players where one team competes with the other in a cat and mouse kinda style.
Rooms available are The Mad Scientist, The Black Queen, Gaol Break, Mafia, Speakeasy and The Abandoned Cabin – all at different difficulty levels, so you can choose what you’re best comfortable with.
You have 60 minutes to escape in rooms locked with mysterious objects and you HAVE to think outside the box. After you’ve escaped, there’s a great range of drinks available at the Adventure Rooms Bar to help celebrate.
More info here.
5. ESCAPLEX
With Gen 4 technology, its the ultimate escape room experience – completely keyless! All your senses will come alive as you enter meticulously-detailed, fully automated, electronically-controlled rooms. Through the highly sensory setting, the rooms are designed to give you a more immersive feel like you’re literally a part of the whole thing.
Investigate a murder in A Deadly Dinner, plan and execute The Jubilee Heist, rummage through the Wild West in or break into someone’s home and uncover a Picture Imperfect world.
More info here.
6. MINDSHIFT ESCAPE ROOMS
Expect to take a journey into parallel worlds filled with intrigue. There are room available for all occasions, ages and abilities here. As soon as you step into the venue, the inner ambience will have you totally immersed in a different era.
Mindshift’s featured rooms are Bermuda Escape – interdimensional communications, Hunting Bigfoot – a monster mystery, Mission Metropol – dystopian time travel, Gypsy Manor – Paranormal investigation and Wizard Quest – to help save the kingdom.
To top it all off, you have bonus services of a dedicated event planner, a licensed bar, and dessert and grazing platters to enjoy if you like.
More info here
If you know of any other exciting escape room destinations in an around Adelaide, make sure to let us know by emailing [email protected]
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