Escape rooms are taking the US – and the wider world – by storm, and it’s little surprise that the entertainment capital of Las Vegas is leading the way for escape room games.
(Photo: Onceuponanescape.com)
Hugely popular as an activity for family and friends, as well as team-building awaydays for businesses, the goal of escape room games is to find your way out of a locked room within a given time limit. To do so, you need to work as a team to solve logical puzzles, uncover clues, and follow a storyline to unravel the mystery. Each riddle brings you one step closer to the ultimate escape. Here are five of the best escape rooms currently on offer in Sin City.
Once Upon an Escape
(Photo: Onceuponanescape.com)
Once Upon an Escape is a new fairytale puzzle escape room providing a uniquely enchanting escape experience. Offering five puzzle escape rooms, each is heavily themed and decorated to fit the storyline of some of your most beloved fairytales. At Once Upon an Escape, you will find an experience like none other. You’ll have 60-90 minutes to solve the mystery and escape before it’s too late while enjoying the realistic charm and creativity of the room as you put your puzzle-solving skills to the test. The adventures are designed by the best and created with detail to give you a magical escape experience from start to finish. Rumplestiltskin, Neverland, 7 Dwarfs, Arabian Nights and Once Upon a Time are all family friendly and fully immersive escape rooms. If you’re looking for the best escape room in Las Vegas, look no further. This is the number one escape room destination. Family owned and managed, support small local businesses.
Special Ops: Mysterious Market
(Photo: The Escape Game)
What started as a routine operation rapidly becomes something a whole lot more complex. You and your fellow field agents were sent to investigate the area’s local market. It’s late, it’s quiet, but something’s not quite right. Just as you’re about to wrap up your inspection, you encounter a twist you never expected. The job for you and your fellow contestants is to uncover the truth in just one hour to complete this mind-twistingly taxing escape game. Up to eight players can take part.
The Asylum: Playtime
(Photo: Courtesy of Lost Games)
You’ve checked into Solitude Heights Asylum of your own free will. However, once inside, you discover not all is as it seems. There are some dark secrets hidden here – secrets that you’ve uncovered. But, you’re trapped inside the asylum. As you tiptoe down the hall, you hear the orderlies making their rounds. You dash into the old recreational room, but that won’t keep you safe for long. Any moment now, orderlies will find out you’re not in your room, and they’ll be swarming all over, trying to find you. Your best hope is to escape. You’ve heard of a hidden route, but you’ve no idea where it is. Can you follow the clues, find the secret exit, and escape before you’re found?
The Heist
(Photo: The Escape Game)
Recover a priceless work of art during this enthralling escape room game. The story begins inside a prestigious art museum, where you learn that a recently stolen masterpiece is presumed hidden within the office of the museum’s egotistical curator. With the help of your intelligence agent on the outside, you have one hour to find your way into the dreaded curator’s office, recover the prestigious painting, and slip away before he returns. Up to 8 players can take part in the game.
Murder on the Orient Express
You are world-renowned Detective Hercule Poirot, aboard the famous Orient Express. You’ve just solved the murder of Mr Ratchet, the man found stabbed to death in his cabin. However, just as you’re preparing to deliver your verdict, new evidence reveals one of the passengers aboard the train has a much more deadly plan. Critical elements of the train’s brake system have been secretly removed and the Orient Express is gently gathering speed. On its current projection, the train will derail in precisely 60 minutes. Your objective is simple – find the potential killer and repair the brake lines to stop the train.