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The Best Escape Rooms In Melbourne (Updated 2024)

By Urban List Writers
7th Feb 2024

Remember when an adventurous night out meant a couple of lukewarm pints in a pub that was two suburbs away from your house? Not anymore. Now, it’s all about escape rooms Melbourne/Naarm has around town.

But which is the best escape room Melbourne has to offer? From Stranger Things-themed rooms to AI puzzles and mind blowing VR experiences, we’ve pulled together Urban List’s top picks of the best escape rooms Melbourne is serving up to the code-crackers in 2024:

Escape Hunt

190 Queen Street, Melbourne CBD

People solving riddles in one of the best escape rooms in Melbourne, Escape Hunt.Image credit: Escape Hunt | Supplied

Escape Hunt is an international sensation in the escape room scene, and with its first immersive location in our city. It's considered one of the greatest escape rooms Melbourne has, and certainly the slickest in terms of production.

There are four experiences to choose from:

The ever-popular Escape Hunt sells out weekends in advance sometimes, so it's best to book early.

Rush Escape Room

Various Locations

Three people standing in a horror-themed room at one of the best escape rooms Melbourne has to offer, by Rush.Image credit: Rush Escape Room | Moo Motion

Love yourself some south-side sleuthing? Rush Escape Room in South Yarra, St Kilda, Hawthorn and Richmond collectively have 13 incredible escape rooms that each offer completely different experiences.

From a bone-chilling Saw-inspired experience called Hacksaw to a Stranger Things-themed rescue mission, the Rush team will have you bamboozled for the entirety of your hour’s gameplay. Some highlights include:

  • Resident Evil (St Kilda): Escape before you end up on the Faker’s family plate.
  • Strangest Thing (Hawthorn): A monster-hunting adventure.
  • It’s Nightmare (South Yarra): Descend into an inception-esk nightmare darkness.

Entermission

164 Bourke Street, Melbourne CBD

The VR escape room, Entermission combines elements of escape rooms with the immersion and slightly dizzying excitement of virtual reality, for a mind-blowing multi-sensory experience.

Combining hand-tracking technology (no controllers necessary) and special effects, inside this Melbourne escape room you’ll literally feel heat and wind on your face, smell gunpowder and even watch as smoke lingers in the air around you. Next-level options include:

  • Standing escape rooms: completely wireless experience with seven experiences on offer.
  • Seated escape rooms: work smarter, not harder, with the hand-tracking mission across 10 puzzles to choose from.

Strike Escape Rooms

Various Locations

If you have a Strike Bowling near you, then you can probably count on there being an escape room right around the corner. Strike have some of the most exhilarating rooms in Melbourne that get the heart pumping and truly test your deciphering skills. Each site is fit with completely different rooms, varying in difficulty from average joe to escape room pro. Here’s some of what you can expect:

  • Injustice: change your fate and break out of jail.
  • Forensic: find the clues to track down the serial killer.
  • Da Vinci: discover Leonardo’s secret before time runs out.

Ukiyo Melbourne

54 Moreland Road, Brunswick 

Ukiyo has been around the escape room circuit for a little while now, but what's great about this haunt is that the themed rooms are often updated. Currently, we’ve got:

  • The Crumbling Prince: primed for Harry Potter, Zelda and Studio Ghibli fans alike, the mystery runs across two separate experiences.
  • Deep Space: A problem-solving haven has you working to break the code with your friends in deep space across two parts, Divinity and Dark.

A top contender for the best escape room in Melbourne.

Trapt

377 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne CBD

Trapt is your classic horror-themed escape room with a boozy twist. This basement escape room in Melbourne venue is a hive of mystery and intrigue, pairing creepy prison and biohazard-themed rooms with a whimsical Wizard of Oz experience.

Better yet, they serve tasty cocktails, beer, and Crust pizzas in their decadent bar area, giving you an excuse to stick around after you’ve managed to make your way out.

Escape Room Melbourne 

Various Locations

One of the best escape rooms Melbourne has to offer has branched out with a South-side sibling venue in South Melbourne, and it’s as good as the Flemington original.

Break the code at the Sherlock Holmes-esque room, use your smarts to escape the magician’s lair (a must-do for Harry Potter fans) and break out of a mining nightmare with the collective brainpower of you and your mates.

The Great Escape

199 Grattan Street, Carlton

If you’re looking to take your escape room Melbourne experience to the next level, The Great Escape's tech-savvy rooms are nothing short of epic.

With six rooms that are currently open, The Great Escape team can accommodate up to ten people in a single room, making it perfect for group get-togethers. Here’s a taste of what to expect:

  • Prison Breaks: the newest escape room, retrace the steps of criminal masterminds to break out of a high-security maze.
  • The Walking Undead: find a way out of the eerie lab before you become the next test subject.
  • The Mummy: round up your mates and solve the riddles of an ancient tomb.

Hijinx Hotel 

Chadstone Shopping Centre, 1341 Dandenong Road, Chadstone

More on the puzzle-solving side of the genre, Hijinx Hotel inside Chadstone still qualifies with all the makings of an escape room.

Enter the marble-clad lobby of the Quirky New York-style hotel and expect to be assigned a set of 5 random challenge rooms, you and up to six of your nearest and dearest can then duke it out as the simple task assigned will gradually become more difficult as time ticks down.

The Mystery Rooms

Various Locations

The Mystery Rooms is one of the best escape rooms Melbourne has to offer.Image credit: The Mystery Rooms | Supplied

The escape room Melbourne scene is bursting with options. If getting your medieval on is your kinda thing (GoT fans, this one’s for you), The Mystery Rooms’ medieval puzzle room will have you frothing. Some other rooms across Fitzroy and Geelong outposts that are 100% worth it:

  • Jurassic Island: problem solve your way out of dinosaur chaos.
  • Dragon Magic: grab your magic wand and defeat the dragon sorcerer.
  • School of Magic: ive out your Harry Potter dreams in this magical maze.

Escape Experience

38 - 40 Eaton Mall, Oakleigh

Oakleigh’s Escape Experience is serving up the sort of brain-teasers that would baffle even the most seasoned pro, and it could be the best escape room Melbourne has to offer:

  • Amnesia: it’s 1947 and you have zero clue about the chaos erupting outside.
  • Burlesque: can you figure out why all the stars keep disappearing?
  • Clockworks: work at lighting speed to recover the masterful invention set to change the world as we know it.

The Curium Experience

28 Cromwell Street, Collingwood

The Curium Experience is considered one of Melbourne's most interactive and immersive escape rooms. Filled with mysteries, secrets, codes and insane special effects, The Curium Experience feels like you're in Mission Impossible—and if you're lucky, you might even save the world. 

Adventure Room

Various Locations

Could this be the best escape room Melbourne is serving up right now? Maybe. It's probably the hardest. With over 70% of punters failing to escape, Adventure Room is best suited to the strategic types out there.

Across the two locations on Little Collins Street and Bourke Street, there are six rooms to work your way out of: 

  • The Black Queen
  • Gaol Break
  • The Mad Scientist
  • The Abandoned Cabin
  • Mafia: The Golden Ring
  • Speakeasy: Secrets Of The Green Fairy (coming soon!)

Woodbury Escape Rooms

259 Park Street, South Melbourne

If you're looking for a horror escape rooms in Melbourne, you can't go past Woodbury. From a Chucky-themed escape to a serial killer's basement, the team at Woodbury has gone all out. The experiences have a huge focus on collaboration, so pick your teams wisely if you plan on taking out the win.

Red Herring

Crown Melbourne, 8 Whiteman Street, Melbourne CBD

From the team behind Holey Moley, Red Herring is a unique escape hunt experience different from your lock and key break-out job. Think a mixed-medium escape that incorporates a healthy dose of AI intertwined with the more traditional escape room capers. You'll also score a cocktail on arrival, and you don't need to crack any codes for that. 

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