FAQ
Before you’re admitted
Asylum is a 60-minute, 18+ horror escape room by Escape This. You wake cuffed in a padded cell while a voice on the intercom promises therapy until you’re cured. Your group has one hour to escape before he returns for a final procedure. It plays at Northbridge in Perth, Sydney CBD and Melbourne CBD, with a Brisbane CBD ward opening in the first half of 2027.
Yes. Asylum picks up where Buried Alive leaves off: you’ve clawed your way out of the coffin, only to wake up chained in a padded cell. You don’t need to have played Buried Alive first, but its survivors will recognise the thread.
In spirit, yes. Escape This lists Saw fans among the people Asylum is made for: you’re restrained, someone unseen is pulling the strings, and the way out runs through his twisted treatments. It’s an escape room, though, so there’s no gore to sit through, just a lot of dread.
Asylum is rated 8 out of 10 by Escape This. The puzzles are complex, and you solve them in darkness, in restraints and with a voice taunting you, which makes the ward much tougher than the puzzle count suggests.
Probably not. Escape This recommends playing a few rooms before you check into Asylum, because it’s both hard and intense. First-timers in Sydney or Melbourne could start with Pirates instead and come back for the ward later.
Pirates — a gentler first escape →
Very. Asylum is one of Escape This’s extreme horror rooms: total darkness, flashing light, restraints, jump scares and strong adult themes. If anyone in your group is unsure they’ll cope, Escape This’s advice is simple: choose a different room.
You get 60 minutes inside Asylum. Arrive 15 minutes beforehand for check-in and the briefing, and allow another 15 afterwards to recover, so the whole visit takes about 90 minutes.
Asylum is priced per player. Northbridge: $49 Monday–Thursday, $65 Friday–Sunday. Sydney CBD: $55 Monday–Thursday (outside public and school holidays), $65 Friday–Sunday. Melbourne CBD: $55 off-peak, $69 peak. There are no child prices, because every player is an adult.
Two to four players at Northbridge, Sydney CBD and Melbourne CBD. Asylum’s limits are fixed: a solo player can’t book it and a fifth person can’t squeeze in.
Yes: Asylum is strictly 18+. Every player must be an adult, children can’t come in as spectators, and staff may ask for ID. There are no exceptions, even with a parent.
Press the panic button. Asylum’s cell has one, a gamesmaster is watching on CCTV the whole time, and they’ll open up immediately. The rest of the group can carry on without you.
Three cells are open. The original Asylum opened on Lake Street at Escape This Northbridge in Perth; copies of the same ward now run on George Street in Sydney CBD and at 259 Collins Street in Melbourne CBD. A fourth is being built for Escape This Brisbane CBD, due in the first half of 2027.
57% of the 4,530 groups locked in Asylum have got out. By venue: Escape This Northbridge 47%, Escape This Sydney CBD 72%, Escape This Melbourne CBD 77%.
Asylum averages 4.97 out of 5 across Northbridge, Sydney and Melbourne, and 495 patients gave it five stars. Players talk about how interactive and well designed the cell is, the challenge, and the gamesmasters who look after them.
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A comic, fictional session journal that Escape This writes in the voice of Asylum’s villain, the cheerful, unnamed therapist on the intercom. He writes up his favourite patients, his three practices and his feelings about the panic button. The notes are safe for work to read; Asylum itself is strictly 18+.
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