Australia's Best Escape Rooms?

Meet Global Award Winner Escape This

One murder. One escape. Two global honours.

An Australian adventure worth putting on your radar.

Escape This Brings Home Two Global Immersive Experience Award Wins

A global escape room award for Australia

The Immersive Experience Awards celebrate immersive work from around the world. Their official 2026 winners list names Escape This - Australia as the winner of Escape Rooms and Puzzle Experiences, alongside its Highly Commended recognition in Production and Craft.

Both honours recognise Hotel Murder Mystery. It is an escape room and detective story where players must solve a murder and find their way out of a 1920s Parisian hotel. Completing just one objective will not do. Not bad for a hotel with a murder on its hands.

For people researching award-winning escape rooms in Australia, these are results you can check with the awards organiser. They offer a concrete reason to explore Escape This, whether you are planning to play the winning experience in Perth or choosing from our wider line-up in Sydney or Melbourne.

What should you look for in the best immersive experiences?

An immersive experience should make you feel involved in a world, not simply impressed by how it looks.

At Escape This, our focus is on detailed physical sets, interactive stories, theatrical lighting, sound and hands-on puzzles that belong within the adventure. You investigate, make connections, test ideas and work with your team to move the story forward.

What Made Hotel Murder Mystery Stand Out?

Two Challenges, One experience

Players have 60 minutes to escape the hotel and solve its murder. Completing only one means losing—a dual challenge that demands both practical puzzle-solving and genuine detective work.

A Mystery That Rewards Real Investigation

Witness accounts, timelines and hidden evidence build a story players must piece together themselves. The non-linear structure encourages teams to question assumptions, compare discoveries and follow connections rather than a prescribed puzzle sequence.

Craftsmanship That Brings the Hotel to Life

The set is part of the game, from restoring power to repairing the escape route. A simulated lift combines sound, vibration, lighting and concealed movement to create a convincing journey between floors, while Games Masters deliver guidance through in-world audio to keep players immersed.

Looking for unique things to do in Australia?

Sometimes you are not looking for an escape room specifically. You just want an answer to “What should we do?” that feels a little different.

Escape This offers an indoor, interactive activity for people who want to do something together - whether you are planning a city break, organising a birthday or rescuing another weekend from the usual routine.

A good escape gives everyone something to contribute. Someone spots a detail. Someone connects two clues. Your most confident mate develops a theory that may or may not survive contact with the evidence.

For friends, it is a shared challenge. For couples, it is a date with a storyline. For colleagues, it is a team activity that gets people talking, observing and solving problems together.

And because the adventures take place indoors, they can be part of your rainy-day plans or your escape from a very Australian summer afternoon. The weather can do its thing. You have another world to get on with.

Find Escape This in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne

Escape This operates across Western Australia, New South Wales and Victoria, with different experiences available at each venue.

So whether you are looking for escape rooms in Perth, things to do in Sydney or an immersive experience in Melbourne, start with the Escape This venue that fits your plans.

Hotel Murder Mystery is available in Perth only. Sydney and Melbourne have their own line-ups to explore; the two 2026 award honours above specifically recognise the Perth experience.

Frequently asked questions

Which escape room should you choose?

The best escape room for your group is not automatically the hardest, the scariest or the one with the biggest claim on its poster. It is the one that matches the experience you want.

Choose your kind of adventure. Do you want a detective story, a fantasy world, an action-adventure or a horror experience? Browse the themes available at your chosen venue rather than assuming every city has the same rooms.

Match the challenge to your group. First-timers and experienced escape artists may want different levels of difficulty. Look at the room information and ask our team for a recommendation if you are unsure.

Check the practical details. Age requirements, player numbers, duration and access information vary by experience. For families, date nights, birthday groups and team-building bookings, those details are part of finding the right fit.

If you want to play the experience recognised at the global awards, Hotel Murder Mystery at Escape This Perth CBD gives you 60 minutes to solve the crime and escape.

If you are visiting another city, explore the local line-up and choose your next world.

Put a globally awarded Australian operator on your things-to-do list

There is no shortage of ways to fill an afternoon. We are here for the ones you are still talking about afterwards.

Escape This brings immersive escape room adventures to Perth, Sydney and Melbourne, with a global award win recognising the creativity behind one of our original experiences.

Choose your city above, find the adventure that suits your group and book your next escape.

We will build the world. You bring the people you want in it.