Room Escape Artist

Latest Update: June 2025

If we had to pick a favorite country to visit to play escape rooms, in all of our travels, The Netherlands tops the list. This was true when we first published this recommendations guide back in 2017, and it is still true today.

Here are our favorite games in Amsterdam and the rest of the country. It’s a small country. It you love escape rooms, it’s worth venturing outside of Amsterdam.

Netherlands Market Standouts

It’s a country full of market standouts…

• Catacombs, Logic Locks 🔒
• Illusion, Epic Escape 🔒
• Jason’s Legacy, OuterGround 🔒
• Kamer 237, Hotel Veloria (formerly known as Kamer 237)
• Lost and Found, Hotel Veloria (formerly known as Kamer 237)🔒
• Molly’s Game, Untold Stories Experiences (formerly operated by Down the Hatch)🔒
• Pray, Escape Room Katwijk 🔒
• The Alchemist, Sherlocked 🔒
• The Concierge, Hotel Veloria 🔒
• The Dome, Mama Bazooka 🔒
• The End, DarkPark 🔒
• The Honeymoon Hotel, DarkPark 🔒
• The Non Believers, Your Escape 🔒
• The Orphanage, DarkPark 🔒
• The Vault, Sherlocked 🔒
• Zoltar Speaks, Escape Cafe 🔒

Amsterdam Market Standouts

If that list of great games is daunting and you don’t have time to travel outside of Amsterdam, you’re in luck. Play these 3 market standouts:

1. The Alchemist, Sherlocked
2. Catacombs, Logic Locks
3. The Vault, Sherlocked

Set & Scenery-Driven

• Catacombs, Logic Locks
• Girl’s Room, Mama Bazooka 🔒
• Illusion, Epic Escape
• Jason’s Legacy, OuterGround
• Kamer 237, Hotel Veloria
• Lost and Found, Hotel Veloria
• Molly’s Game, Untold Stories Experiences
• Pray, Escape Room Katwijk
• The Alchemist, Sherlocked
• The Concierge, Hotel Veloria
• The Dome, Mama Bazooka
• The End, DarkPark
• The Freakshow, DarkPark
• The Honeymoon Hotel, DarkPark
• The Non Believers, Your Escape
• The Orphanage, DarkPark
• Soup du Jour, Rock City Escape
• The Vault, Sherlocked
• Zoltar Speaks, Escape Cafe

Puzzle-Centric

• Illusion, Epic Escape
• Kamer 237, Hotel Veloria
• Lost and Found, Hotel Veloria
• Soup du Jour, Rock City Escape
• The Alchemist, Sherlocked
• The Architect, Sherlocked
• The Concierge, Hotel Veloria

Action Movie Feel

• The Courtroom, The Great Escape
• The Dome, Mama Bazooka
• The Vault, Sherlocked

Spooky & Scary

• Catacombs, Logic Locks
• Girl’s Room, Mama Bazooka
• Jason’s Legacy, OuterGround
• Kamer 237, Hotel Veloria
• Molly’s Game, Untold Stories Experiences
• Pray, Escape Room Katwijk
• Soup du Jour, Rock City Escape
• The End, DarkPark
• The Honeymoon Hotel, DarkPark
• The Non Believers, Your Escape
• The Orphanage, DarkPark

Games with Actors

• Catacombs, Logic Locks
• Jason’s Legacy, OuterGround
• Kamer 237, Hotel Veloria
• Pray, Escape Room Katwijk
• The End, DarkPark
• The Vault, Sherlocked
• Zoltar Speaks, Escape Cafe

Something Different

The Lost Cabinet, Sherlocked  🔒 Over the years we have played many escape rooms that were clearly influenced by the video game, The Room, but Sherlocked took that inspiration and made it real. The Lost Cabinet is a “crate” experience, meaning the gameplay emerges from within a container, and is largely experienced upon a table. This isn’t an experience you can just book. You need to know to ask for it.

Doloris Anoma Maze (Utrecht) and Doloris Meta Maze (Tillburg) – Crawl and climb your way through dozens of rooms of zany, transportive, interactive art. Unlike many other immersive art experiences out there, these are solo experiences and no phones are allowed inside. While they’re not escape rooms, both Doloris locations offer some of the most surreal adventures in the region.

You are always welcome to contact us if this recommendation list doesn’t answer your specific questions.

🔒 Golden Lock award-winning experience

Update 6/13/25: We had the pleasure of talking with Eric Spring in ‘t Veld, the owner of Mama Bazooka and the mind behind The Dome and The Girl’s Room.

If you enjoyed the games at DarkPark, we suggest listening to the Reality Escape Pod episode with Gijs Geers.

We also interviewed Alexander Gierholz from Logic Locks on the REPOD.