Best Escape Rooms in San Francisco Ranking

THE BEST ESCAPE ROOMS IN SAN FRANCISCO [2025]

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Our ranking of the best escape rooms in San Francisco 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. There are 5 escape rooms in San Francisco which are 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.

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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 Francisco, two escape rooms have earned this distinction.

RANKINGS OF ESCAPE ROOMS IN SAN FRANCISCO

Our San Francisco 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 Francisco Directory
Escape Rooms San Francisco

ESCAPE ROOMS SAN FRANCISCO CA

Escape rooms in the city: 5

The Escape Game San Francisco (Downtown)

  • 150 Kearny St, San Francisco, CA 94108, USA
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  • The Escape Game San Francisco (Downtown) offers the following escape rooms and escape games:
  • Timeliner (Train Through Time): This digitally-interactive escape room puts you on a time-traveling train where you must hop between centuries to address life-threatening issues and save the future.
  • Prison Break: Considered a difficult room, players are split into two different prison cells in a 1950s-style prison and must work together to escape, which includes getting to the warden’s office.
  • Prison Break (Alcatraz): Players are inmates who are making a break from Alcatraz and must cut the power to the block from the warden’s office to escape.
  • The Depths: Players must navigate their submarine to an abandoned laboratory deep in the ocean to decipher a missing researcher’s work and discover his secrets, while also being cautious as they are not alone.
  • The Heist: As special agents, players need to slip through a museum undetected, break into the curator’s office, and recover a priceless Monet painting before he returns.
  • Special Ops (Mysterious Market): During a routine investigation of a spice market, players uncover an unexpected discovery that leads them to combat an international crisis threatening the world.
  • Gold Rush: Players are the next of kin to a recently deceased prospector and have 60 minutes to get into his cabin and find his hidden gold fortune before others find out.
  • Playground: This light-hearted and nostalgic game puts players in a classroom where they must finish all their unusual assignments before the end of the day to secure their summer break.

The Escape Game San Francisco (Fisherman’s Wharf)

  • 145 Jefferson St Suite 500, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA
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  • The Escape Game San Francisco (Fisherman’s Wharf) offers the same escape games as above.

Palace Games

  • 3362 Palace Dr, San Francisco, CA 94123, USA
  • Palace Games offers 5 unique escape games:
  • The Edison Escape Room: Players embark on a dazzling journey through Thomas Edison’s secret laboratory, facing innovative trials to uncover the great inventor’s secret to success.
  • The Attraction Escape Room: Located within the Palace of Fine Arts, this room is based on a condemned attraction from San Francisco’s 1915 World’s Fair, where players must decipher its mysterious purpose and secrets.
  • The Great Houdini Escape Room: Players step into a complex labyrinth of illusion and mystery designed by Harry Houdini in 1915 to test great American innovators, and they must outsmart the master of illusion to escape.
  • The Roosevelt Escape Room: Players become part of Teddy Roosevelt’s team in the lead-up to World War I and must enter a meticulously recreated early 20th-century war room to decode the president’s secrets and save the nation.
  • Lollyland (A Mini-Golf Puzzle Adventure): Returning in late 2025, is a unique immersive experience that combines mini golf with an escape room twist.

EscapeSF

  • 602 Kearny St, San Francisco, CA 94108, USA
  • EscapeSF offers 4 escape games:
  • Escape from Alcatraz: Located in the heart of San Francisco (not on the island), players are in a carefully replicated environment of the Alcatraz federal monument and must escape before the guards change in one hour.
  • King Arthur’s Legacy: Set in the faded past of Camelot, players answer the call of the Lady of the Lake to quest for the mighty sword Excalibur and bring light and justice back to the land.
  • Escape from Blind Tiger Bar: During the Prohibition era, players have the chance to take over after a group of mafia bosses has been busted for bootlegging, but they need to act quickly.
  • Sabotage (Spy Case Escape Game for Large Groups): This is a fully automated 75-minute puzzle game best suited for team-building groups of 20 to 50+ players, where small teams use spy gadgets to obtain hidden information within a time limit.

PanIQ Escape Room San Francisco

  • 2146 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
  • PanIQ Escape Room San Francisco offers 3 escape games:
  • Medieval Madness: This creepy next-gen live escape room places players in a place of horrifying torture and punishment where they must repent for a life of sin and escape before facing eternal judgment.
  • The Red Wire: Players are a team of MI5 agents who have intelligence that a foreign spy is planning a terrorist attack in London, and they must find his safehouse and stop his plan before it’s too late.
  • Wizard Trials: As apprentices to the great wizard Master Diaphugius, players must find his missing cat within one hour in his tower to pass their final test and earn the title of Assistant Wizard.

REVIEWS

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