Best Escape Rooms in San Diego

THE BEST ESCAPE ROOMS IN SAN DIEGO [2025]

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Our ranking of the best escape rooms in San Diego is based on Google ratings and reviews from internet users. San Diego escape rooms with higher ratings and, in the case of identical ratings, those with more reviews are ranked higher. There are 5 escape rooms on our list. We hope this ranking, along with our tools such as review checker and escape room locator (which includes opening hours and contact details), helps you find and choose great escape rooms near you.

Golden Key

GOLDEN KEY AWARD

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 San Diego, two escape rooms have earned this distinction.

RANKINGS OF ESCAPE ROOMS IN SAN DIEGO

Our San Diego Escape Room Ranking features a list of escape rooms which have a Google rating of at least 4.0 and a minimum of 100 reviews. Rooms with a 5-star rating on Google are highlighted with our Golden Key badge for easy recognition.

Escape Rooms San Diego CA Ranking
Escape Rooms San Diego CA

ESCAPE ROOMS SAN DIEGO CA

Escape rooms in the city: 5

Red Door Escape Room

  • 7007 Friars Rd Suite 212, San Diego, CA 92108, USA
Golden Key
  • Red Door Escape Room offers the following escape rooms and escape games:
  • Captain Maniacal’s Lair-Bratorium: Players must assemble a robot to become Captain Maniacal’s trusted henchmen on the eve of his greatest invention.
  • Confinement: Trapped in a nightmare, players must ground themselves in memories and shine light into the darkness to escape before descending into madness.
  • Fair Game: At a mysterious circus, players need to use wit and whimsy to decipher clues within the fairgrounds and determine what is real.
  • Prison Break: Players, believed to have dangerous powers, must rely on a cellmate-created distraction to escape before the guards catch them.
  • Once Upon a Time: Players must venture through an enchanted forest and search a castle to retrieve three powerful magical items before they fall into the wrong hands.
  • The Gift: Hired by a man claiming ownership, players need to break into an antique shop, steal a valuable sword, and disappear without getting caught.

The Escape Game San Diego

  • 232 Fifth Ave, San Diego, CA 92101, USA
Golden Key
  • The Escape Game San Diego offers five different escape room themes which can accommodate up to eight players each and vary in difficulty.
  • Timeliner: Train Through Time: Players embark on a digitally-interactive time travel adventure aboard a train, hopping between different centuries to address critical issues and save the future.
  • Prison Break: Considered their most challenging room, players are split into different prison cells in a 1950s-style prison and must work together to escape, potentially including a trip to the warden’s office.
  • The Depths: Players dive into an abandoned underwater laboratory in a submarine to investigate the disappearance of a researcher and uncover mysterious experiments, while realizing they are not alone.
  • Special Ops: Mysterious Market: As special ops agents investigating a spice market, players unexpectedly uncover an international crisis and must use their tactical skills to prevent a global catastrophe.
  • Gold Rush: Players inherit the chance to claim a gold fortune left by their deceased prospector relative, Clyde Hamilton, and must find it within his cabin before others discover it.

Escapology Escape Rooms San Diego

  • 3116 Mission Blvd, San Diego, CA 92109, USA
  • Escapology San Diego offers unique and immersive private escape rooms where teams work together to find clues, crack codes, and solve puzzles to complete a mission within a 60-minute time limit. Each game has its own unique story and puzzles. The rooms are designed to transport players into a narrative filled with suspense and surprises.
  • Antidote: Players are a team of scientists tasked with investigating a rogue chemical weapons specialist and finding the only known antidote to a powerful virus before it falls into enemy hands.
  • Scooby-Doo and the Spooky Castle Adventure: Players are locked in a spooky castle and must collaborate with Mystery Inc. via magic portraits to solve the disappearance of Baroness Maria Richman and identify the culprit among several suspects.
  • Budapest Express: On a fast train to Budapest, players are detectives who must identify which of the five suspects murdered Sir Clarence Hayden before the train reaches its next stop, as the killer knows they are being investigated.
  • Mansion Murder: Players are Robert Montgomerie, the heir to a fortune, and must uncover hidden clues and family secrets to prove their innocence after their grandfather is found murdered at a family gathering before the police arrive.
  • Lost City: Players, equipped with modern technology, venture into a lost temple to find a famed explorer’s journal containing the secrets to a rare treasure, but they must prove their worth to awakened spirits within 60 minutes.

Escape Game SD

  • 3956 Fourth Ave, San Diego, CA 92103, USA
  • Escape Game SD offers 3 team-building games where participants are trapped in a room and must investigate clues to escape before time runs out.
  • Wizards and Spells Room: Players enter the Enchanted Grounds of a wizardry school and must race against Professor Wolfgang Lupus in their entrance exam to escape the school grounds before the bell rings.
  • Japanese Thriller Room: Contestants participate in an escape game set in the abandoned apartment of a Japanese serial killer, Futoshi Matsunaga, and must escape the haunted location where his victims met their fate.
  • Superheroes Adventure Room: A group of superheroes has been locked in a room by a villain, and they have one hour to solve clues and escape before a bomb detonates.

Quicksand Escape Games

  • 1001 Garnet Ave, San Diego, CA 92109, USA
  • Quicksand Escape Games offers 4 escape games:
  • The Family Cabin: Players must race their cousins to the family’s cabin from the 90s to claim a valuable vintage Nintendo game before anyone else does. They will need to solve clever puzzles to secure the cartridge before their efforts become “as worthless as a Beanie Baby”.
  • Chinatown: Players, as part of a special unit, have a short window after a Chinatown restaurant closes to find evidence of a drug exchange planned for the Chinese New Year parade and get out unseen. They need to “get in, get some dirt, and get out” to see what their fortune will say.
  • The Diner: Players find themselves about to rob a local diner after a wild night went wrong, and they need to complete the job in under an hour, hoping to make some “Money Honey” and avoid ending up in “Jailhouse Rock”. The prep work is said to be done, but success depends on their ability to pull it off.
  • Speakeasy Nouveau: Players need to infiltrate a speakeasy, which is accessed through a barbershop, to retrieve their prized Babe Ruth signed baseball that was used as collateral for a tab, before the mob guys return. The goal is to “find your way in, get your baseball back, and get out” without facing the mob’s wrath.

REVIEWS

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