Best Escape Rooms in New York City

THE BEST ESCAPE ROOMS IN NEW YORK CITY

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Our ranking of the best escape rooms in New York City is based on Google ratings and reviews from internet users. Escape rooms with higher ratings and, in the case of identical ratings, those with more reviews are ranked higher. We hope this ranking, along with our tools such as review checker and New York City escape room locator (which includes opening hours and contact details), helps you find and choose great escape rooms near you.

RANKINGS OF ESCAPE ROOMS IN NEW YORK CITY

Our New York City Escape Rooms Ranking features a list of escape rooms which have a Google rating of at least 4.0 and a minimum of 100 reviews. There are 10 such escape rooms in New York that are on our list. Rooms with a 5-star rating on Google are highlighted with our Golden Key badge for easy recognition.

Golden Key

We present the GOLDEN KEY AWARD to escape rooms that have a 5-star rating and a high number of Google reviews, recognizing them for outstanding performance. In New York City, two escape rooms have earned this distinction.

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Escape Rooms in New York City

The Escape Game NYC

  • 295 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10017, USA
  • Position in the ranking: 1
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  • This company offers escape room adventures with themes including adventure, prison break, science fiction, and discovery. Across their Brooklyn and New York City locations, they offer a total of 8 unique escape room themes.
  • Timeliner (Train Through Time): All aboard this time-traveling train as part of the Time Crisis Management team, tasked with addressing life-threatening issues across centuries to restore the past and save the future.
  • Prison Break: Complete your daring escape from a 1950s-style prison by working with your team (even if split into two cells) to get out and sneak to the warden’s office. This room is considered their most difficult.
  • The Depths: Dive into the ocean depths to investigate an abandoned laboratory and decipher the research of a missing scientist, Dr. Humphreys, to discover what he’s been hiding. Just be careful, as you’re not alone in these waters.
  • Gold Rush: Immerse yourself in a quest to find the gold.
  • Playground: Step back into school and rule it by finishing all of your assignments before the end of the day to earn your summer break. This room is light-hearted, nostalgic, and playful.
  • Only Murders In The Building: Help the trio Oliver, Charles, and Mabel by searching an intricately designed movie set to uncover hidden clues and solve puzzles to track down a missing film reel. Your detective skills are essential to saving the movie (available only in New York City).
  • Special Ops (Mysterious Market): As a special ops agent, a routine search of a spice market leads to an unexpected discovery requiring you to harness your tactical skills to combat an international crisis that threatens the state of the world. Through twists and turns, you must uncover how deep the conspiracy goes (available only in New York City).
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The Escape Game Brooklyn

  • 445 Gold St C-014b, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA
  • Position in the ranking: 2
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  • In Brooklyn location, they offer 6 escape room themes.
  • Cosmic Crisis: Your mission is to destroy a blackhole (available only in Brooklyn).
  • Timeliner (Train Through Time), Prison Break, The Depths, Gold Rush, Playground: (the same as above in New York City).
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Escape the Room NYC

  • 24 W 25th St floor 8, New York, NY 10010, USA
  • Position in the ranking: 3
  • This venue provides immersive live-action escape room adventures across a variety of themes including quizzes, viruses, dinosaurs, spies, historical mysteries, underwater exploration, archaeology, and time travel. They present a total of 8 escape rooms.
  • Quiz Boxing: Assemble your team and face off in a TV style arena with 6 game stations for a 60-minute quiz game consisting of multiple rounds requiring different skills.
  • The Outbreak: You and your team have the only chance to thwart a diabolical scientist’s plot to start a pandemic by infiltrating the US water supply and getting a vaccine distributed within 60 minutes.
  • Jurassic Escape: Ensure dinosaur clones don’t take down NYC by avoiding detection, stopping the cloning process, and not becoming lunch.
  • The Agency: You’ve been selected for a top-secret mission that you must complete in one hour, set in an environment involving martinis, beer, and poker.
  • The Home: Something is amiss in this elaborate, Victorian-themed abode, and you’re trapped inside with only one hour to solve the mystery and escape.
  • The Submarine: Ready for a story-driven adventure under the sea, you and your shipmates must navigate the waters, outsmart the insane captain, and reach the surface before your oxygen runs out.
  • The Dig: This is a multi-layered game with hidden twists and unexpected turns where you peel back layers of the story with every clue you solve and secret you reveal. Can you solve the mystery and escape?
  • The Clock Tower: Something has gone wrong with the clock tower’s mechanical gears and springs, and your team must travel to the future and the past to find puzzle pieces and save the Timekeeper who is trapped.
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BrainXcape Escape Room NYC

  • 160 Broadway 3rd floor, New York, NY 10038, USA
  • Position in the ranking: 4
  • Located in Manhattan, BrainXcape offers private, immersive horror and thriller escape room experiences with cinematic sets and adjustable difficulty levels. Their themes include prison breaks, haunted locations, circuses, pirates, and unique single-room experiences. They offer five unique escape rooms.
  • Rikers, 1932: Step back in time and land in the middle of New York’s most infamous penitentiary, Rikers Island, where you must unravel the cryptic clues left behind and escape before you’re caught as the guard’s steps echo down the hallway. This room is described as Family Friendly, Scary, Prison Break, and Thriller.
  • The Haunted Hotel: Check into The Grange Hotel, where ghostly whispers and haunted hallways are just part of the charm; you must keep your nerve, decipher the cryptic messages, and check out before time is up. This room is described as Family Friendly, Haunted, Mystery, and Thriller.
  • The Bloody Circus: This room is described as a Horror, Mystery, and Scary experience featuring Jump Scares and Clowns.
  • The Pirate’s Heart: This is an Eerie, Family Friendly, Fantasy themed escape room.
  • Elevator To Hell: This is a Family Friendly escape room experience that takes place in a Single Room, specifically an Elevator.
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Escape Room NYC – Mission Escape Games

  • 265 W 37th St Suite 802A, New York, NY 10018, USA
  • Position in the ranking: 5
  • This company offers a thrilling and high-tech mission theme involving corporate espionage.
  • Carbon: 3708: You and your team must infiltrate the headquarters of the evil corporation Cyber Industries to destroy the data stored inside. Hurry and prevent the takeover of humanity before time runs out.
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Exit Escape Room NYC

  • 247 W 36th St. Suite 101, New York, NY 10018, USA
  • Position in the ranking: 6
  • Rated among the best escape rooms in NYC, this venue offers four unique private escape rooms in Midtown Manhattan with thrilling themes including action, fantasy, crime, and culinary challenges.
  • High Speed NYC: You hop on a train, but before you know it, the conductor is gone, and the train is speeding with no control; you must figure out how to activate the emergency systems and stop it before it’s too late. This is an exciting, thrilling, and innovative escape game.
  • The Enchanted Forest: The kingdom is in peril from Agatha, the evil witch, and you must go on a quest into the enchanted forest to find her lair and retrieve her Book of Magic to get a spell reversal potion before her spell turns everyone into toads. This is an adventurous and magical fairytale story where the fate of the kingdom rests in your hands.
  • Mafia: As part of a team of expert thieves, you await your opportunity to take a shot at a briefcase full of cash seized in a bank heist and hidden inside the basement of a notorious crime family head’s pizzeria. You have one hour to find the cash and escape before he returns with his goons.
  • Sugar Rush: You and your team enter a state-of-the-art bakery to compete in the great NYC cupcake challenge, but your competitors have hidden all the tools and ingredients and locked you inside; you must manage to find everything you need and get the cupcakes ready on time. This is a super fun and interactive escape game full of sweet surprises, with puzzles that put all your senses to work.
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PanIQ Escape Room NYC

  • 39 W 32nd St 4th floor, New York, NY 10001, USA
  • Position in the ranking: 7
  • Located in Manhattan, PanIQ Room offers four private escape rooms with immersive and high-quality designs and challenging puzzles. Their themes include magic, pirates, speakeasy mystery, and a superhero/vigilante challenge.
  • Houdini’s Workshop: For the last several decades of his life, Houdini dedicated himself to publicly debunking self-proclaimed psychics, and you believe he was searching for someone with access to actual supernatural abilities. This room features complex puzzles and mind-bending riddles, designed for large groups and true enthusiasts.
  • Pirates Of The Bermuda Triangle: The crew of ‘The Hades’ Plunder’ has mutinied and locked their captain up below deck; you need to board the ship, listen for instructions from the captain, and help steer it safely to a nearby island. This room is also an Expert difficulty level game with complex puzzles.
  • Moonshine Madness: A mysterious drink served at the bar has been causing strange side-effects, leading to the speakeasy being temporarily shuttered. You are a team of expert drink investigators put on the case.
  • Guardian Of Gotham: This escape room is themed around a vigilante or superhero challenge, implied by the name. It is a Medium difficulty level game.
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Escape Room Madness NYC

  • 38 W 32nd St 5th Floor, Ste 500, New York, NY 10001, USA
  • Position in the ranking: 8
  • This company offers 6 challenging physical escape rooms with diverse themes ranging from crime and ancient history to nuclear threats, masquerade balls, and mysterious houses. All their rooms are private experiences for the safety of their customers.
  • The Perfect Crime: This crime-themed, detective escape room is a test of strategic thinking and teamwork set in a meticulously designed museum or detective’s office, where you must solve puzzles to find an elusive artifact or solve what seems to be the perfect crime. It has a difficulty level of 8/10.
  • Exodus: Set in the New York History Museum on Floor 6, you and your team, with the help of the good Pharaoh Khufu, must navigate intricate halls and artifacts to decipher ancient clues and stop the ghost of the evil Pharaoh Ramses II from ending the world. It has a difficulty level of 6/10.
  • Masquerade: Enter the luxurious world of a wealthy composer and infiltrate his lavish Masquerade Ball to discreetly search for evidence that could incriminate him in a high-profile crime. Your mission is to find proof of his guilt and escape without alerting suspicion.
  • Nuclear Annihilation: Assemble your team and step into a post-apocalyptic world set in a NYC Power Plant after a terrorist attack, where you are trapped inside and must navigate clues, puzzles, and challenges to neutralize the threat and save millions of innocent lives from total devastation.
  • Prey: Gather your team of detectives and embark on a thrilling quest to uncover the truth behind The Fleureau House. Can you solve the mystery and prevent the creature’s next attack, or will you become prey?
  • Quarantine: In this unique quarantine-themed escape room set in Dr. Semias Vexx’s Secret Lab on Floor 6, you are quarantined and must decipher clues, solve puzzles, and unravel secrets to escape before it’s too late.
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Escape Virtuality

  • 130 W 29th St, New York, NY 10001, USA
  • Position in the ranking: 9
  • Located in Midtown, New York City, this venue offers three heart-pounding escape rooms that transport you to captivating worlds filled with mystery and suspense. Themes include action, mystery, and sci-fi.
  • Runaway Subway Train: Join the adrenaline-charged mission aboard the Runaway Subway Train and find a way to stop it within 60 minutes or face catastrophic consequences.
  • Ghost Collector: In this escape room game, you must race against time to capture escaped spirits.
  • Mission (Galaxy Rescue): Embark on an intergalactic rescue mission to save mankind.
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OMEscape New York Real Life Escape Room Game

  • 325 W 38th St #2, New York, NY 10018, USA
  • Position in the ranking: 10
  • This venue offers high-tech escape room games in New York with themes involving viruses, biological hazards, and prison escapes. They provide a total of 3 different escape rooms.
  • Arcane Engine: This escape room theme features CIA Agents and a Virus.
  • Laboritory Of Biohazard: This room is themed around a laboratory setting with biological hazards.
  • Escape the Penitentiary: The challenge is to escape from a penitentiary because the police are after you.

REVIEWS OF ESCAPE ROOMS NEW YORK CITY

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Learn more about escape rooms in New York City:

  • How many people are typically needed to play an escape room game?
  • The ideal group size for an escape room in New York City varies depending on the specific room and venue. Many rooms are designed for groups ranging from 2 to 10 players, with some suggesting a specific number for the best experience. For example, OMEscape’s Penitentiary room suggests 9-12 players for a group that can accommodate up to 14. Some venues, like The Escape Game in Brooklyn, can accommodate larger groups starting their experience simultaneously across multiple rooms. It’s always recommended to check the capacity and suggested group size for the specific escape room you’re interested in.
  • What is the age suitability for escape rooms in NYC?
  • Age recommendations for NYC escape rooms vary depending on the complexity of the puzzles and the theme of the room. Many venues recommend ages 8 or 10 and older, especially for family-friendly options. However, some rooms with more mature or intense themes, like “Quarantine” at Escape Room Madness, have higher age restrictions, such as 16+. Younger players are often required to be accompanied by an adult, and some venues may require an adult to be present at check-in for players under 18.
  • How long do escape room games usually last?
  • Most escape room games in NYC have a time limit of 60 minutes. This creates a sense of urgency and adds to the excitement as teams race against the clock to solve all the puzzles and escape before time runs out. However, some experiences may have slightly different durations, such as the 70-minute games offered at OMEscape.
  • What are the typical price ranges for escape rooms in New York City?
  • The pricing for escape rooms in NYC can vary based on factors such as the day of the week, the number of players in the group, and the specific venue. Prices are often listed per person, with potential discounts for larger groups. For example, OMEscape lists prices per person on weekdays are significantly lower than on weekends. Mission Escape Games has tiered pricing based on group size, with rates per person decreasing for larger groups. Some venues may offer special packages or discounts, particularly for weekday bookings or during specific promotional periods. Private game pricing is common, where your group reserves the entire room.
  • What kind of themes can I find in NYC escape rooms?
  • NYC escape rooms offer a diverse range of themes to cater to various interests. You can find experiences based on historical events like the Gold Rush or escaping from a 1930s prison. There are also science fiction themes involving futuristic settings, cybernetic elements, or even time travel. For those seeking a thrill, there are horror and mystery themes like escaping a haunted hotel or solving a crime. Some rooms incorporate elements of magic and fantasy, while others focus on action-packed scenarios like stopping a runaway train or embarking on a special ops mission.
  • Are escape rooms physically demanding or scary?
  • Escape rooms in New York are primarily designed to be mentally stimulating and require intellectual engagement and teamwork to solve puzzles and find clues. They are not typically physically demanding. While some rooms have thrilling or suspenseful themes, like haunted or crime scenarios, they are not intended to be physically scary or involve jump scares or physical contact. BrainXcape, for example, emphasizes a creepy ambiance and intense emotions without being physically frightening.
  • Are NYC escape rooms suitable for team building or corporate events?
  • Yes, escape rooms are highly recommended for corporate team building and group events. The nature of escape rooms, which require communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and working together under pressure, makes them an excellent activity for strengthening bonds and improving teamwork skills. Several venues specifically highlight their suitability for corporate events.