Hardest
Buried Alive
39%
Escape This Northbridge · last 12 months
Escape This in numbers · live from ER-OS
Every Escape This room, measured
Escape rates, winning times, clues and records for 41 rooms at 5 centres in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne, refreshed from the system that runs the games.
In short: Over the last 12 months 66% of Escape This teams escaped (129,792 games logged all time); Buried Alive at Northbridge is the hardest room at 39%, and Cannibal at Northbridge is the most played.
Games logged129,792all time, every centre
Escape rate66%48% all time
Average winning time52:0752:07 all time
Clues per game5.25.9 all time
Rooms open4138 ranked
Centres53 cities · Brisbane next
ER-OS live data · 29 October 2026 · from 129,792 games logged across Escape This, all time · all Escape This centres, rates, times and clues over the last 12 months · Not all games are logged, but all logged games are reported. · How we calculate
Fastest escape
High Noon
17:30
4 players · 22 May 2026
- Magic School (Manly) 18:34
- The Dunny (Manly) 19:30
- Telephone (Perth CBD) 19:54
- Pirate Island (Perth CBD) 21:39
Most played
Cannibal
Escape This Northbridge · most games logged
The five centres, hardest first
Last 12 months. The marker is the national escape rate of 66%.
| # | Centre | City | Escape rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Escape This Northbridge | Perth | |
| 2 | Escape This Perth CBD | Perth | |
| 3 | Escape This Sydney CBD | Sydney | |
| 4 | Escape This Melbourne CBD | Melbourne | |
| 5 | Escape This Manly | Sydney |
National escape rate, last 12 months, 66%
Horror against adventure
Escape This tags each room in ER-OS as horror or adventure. Put the open rooms in those two piles and the gap is the single biggest pattern in the data: horror rooms let out 57% of teams, adventure rooms 71%.
Age limits are part of the story. Most horror rooms are 15+ or 18+, so they never see the family groups that many adventure rooms welcome from age 9. The comparison is between two different crowds as much as two kinds of room.
Horror rooms57%last 12 months · 19 rooms
Adventure rooms71%last 12 months · 22 rooms
Escape rate over the last 12 months = escaped ÷ played, summed across open rooms by ER-OS tag.
Q&A · each answer has its own link
Escape This in numbers: the questions
How many games has ER-OS logged across Escape This?
ER-OS, the booking and game system Escape This runs on, has logged 129,792 escape room games across the five Escape This centres as of 29 October 2026. Every figure on Escape That comes from those games; Escape That does not break the count down by room, centre or period. Not all games are logged, but all logged games are reported. The count starts when each room’s games began being recorded in ER-OS, so it is not a lifetime total.
What percentage of teams escape an Escape This room?
Over the last 12 months 66% of Escape This games ended with the team out before the clock ran down, so roughly three teams in five get out. Across all 129,792 games ER-OS has logged the figure is 48%.
How long does a winning team take, on average, across Escape This?
A team that escapes takes 52:07 on average across every Escape This room, measured in minutes and seconds from ER-OS. Almost every room is 60 minutes, so most winners use a little over 50 of them; over the last 12 months the average is 52:07.
How many clues does the average team ask for at Escape This?
The average Escape This game uses 5.9 clues across all rooms and centres (5.2 over the last 12 months). The range is wide: The Dunny at Escape This Manly averages 12.2, while Zombie Apocalypse at Escape This Melbourne CBD averages 1.9.
How many rooms does Escape That measure?
Escape That tracks 41 open Escape This rooms at 5 centres, plus 12 retired rooms kept in the archive and 7 rooms ER-OS lists as announced. 38 of the open rooms have the 100 games needed to appear in a ranking.
Are more teams escaping Escape This rooms now than before?
Yes. The Escape This escape rate over the last 12 months is 66%, against 48% over all logged games, and 5 of the 5 centres are running at or above their own all-time rate over the last 12 months, so it is not just one centre’s mix.
Which state has the hardest Escape This rooms?
Western Australia. Over the last 12 months Escape This rooms in WA had a 58% escape rate, against 79% in New South Wales and 85% so far in Victoria. Northbridge’s horror rooms are the main reason.
Which Escape This centre has the lowest escape rate?
Escape This Northbridge, with 50% of its games over the last 12 months ending in an escape. The next-hardest Escape This centre is Escape This Perth CBD at 63%, a gap of 13 points.
At which Escape This centre do teams escape most often?
Escape This Manly: 97% of its games over the last 12 months ended in an escape. Escape This Melbourne CBD is next at 85%. Both have logged far fewer games than the Perth centres, so their figures move faster.
Are horror escape rooms harder than adventure rooms, going by Escape This data?
On average, yes. Over the last 12 months, horror-tagged Escape This rooms had a 57% escape rate; adventure rooms had 71%. The hardest adventure room, High Noon at Escape This Perth CBD, still sits among the horror rooms near the top of the difficulty table.
How many players has Escape This hosted?
Escape This says it has hosted more than 500,000 players. Escape That does not add up a player total of its own: ER-OS reports player counts per room group, the same figure for every copy of a room, so summing them would count the same players several times.
How many five-star reviews do the Escape This centres have?
At least 18,025 across the five Escape This centres, from an ER-OS average of 4.96 out of 5 as of 29 October 2026. Escape This Sydney CBD has 6,648 and Escape This Northbridge has 5,279.
Who publishes Escape That?
Escape That is the statistics site of Escape This, built on its own ER-OS records. Escape This is Australia’s largest escape room operator, and runs its own escape room design studio and escape room factory in Australia. APAC Insider’s Australia Business Awards named it Escape Room Operator of the Year for both 2025 and 2026.
What is the hardest Escape This room in Australia?
Buried Alive at Escape This Northbridge, going by escape rate over the last 12 months. Only 39% of its games in that time ended in an escape, the lowest of the 38 Escape This rooms with 100 or more games in the last 12 months. High Noon at Escape This Perth CBD is next at 41%.
Which Escape This room has been played the most?
Cannibal at Escape This Northbridge has logged the most games in ER-OS, and The Haunting at Escape This Northbridge is second. Escape That does not publish game counts by room. These are logged games, not lifetime plays, so long-running rooms may have more history than ER-OS shows.
What is the fastest escape ever logged at Escape This?
17:30 in High Noon at Escape This Perth CBD, set by a team of 4 on 22 May 2026 with 2 clues. That is the quickest time dated inside a room’s run anywhere in Escape This’s ER-OS records.
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Escape This, measured by its own system
Escape This is Australia’s largest escape room operator, and runs its own escape room design studio and escape room factory in Australia. It has venues in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne, has hosted more than 500,000 players and has earned 18,025 five-star reviews.
Every number on this site comes from ER-OS, the system that books and runs each Escape This game, so the rooms are measured by the same rules wherever they play.
Escape This was named Escape Room Operator of the Year in both 2025 and 2026 by the APAC Insider Australia Business Awards.
2026Winner · Operator of the Year
