Room Escape Artist

Latest Update: February 26, 2024

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 🔒
• CORPSE, INC, Escape Room Junkie
• Jason’s Legacy, OuterGround
• Illusion, Epic Escape
• Kamer 237
• Lost and Found, Kamer 237
• Molly’s Game, Down the Hatch
• Stay in the Dark, DarkPark (closing soon!)
• The Alchemist, Sherlocked
• The Dome, Mama Bazooka 🔒
• The End, DarkPark 🔒
• The Honeymoon Hotel, DarkPark 🔒
• The Non Believers, Your Escape
• The Orphanage, DarkPark
• The Vault, Sherlocked 🔒

… and we look forward to returning to play other games we’ve heard about, but haven’t yet had the chance to visit.

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 🔒
• Jason’s Legacy, OuterGround
• Illusion, Epic Escape
• Kamer 237
• Lost and Found, Kamer 237
• Molly’s Game, Down the Hatch
• Stay in the Dark, DarkPark
• The Alchemist, Sherlocked
• 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

Puzzle-Centric

• Illusion, Epic Escape
• Kamer 237
• Soup du Jour, Rock City Escape
• The Architect, Sherlocked

Action Movie Feel

• CORPSE, INC, Escape Room Junkie
• 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
• Molly’s Game, Down the Hatch
• Soup du Jour, Rock City Escape
• Stay in the Dark, DarkPark
• The End, DarkPark
• The Honeymoon Hotel, DarkPark
• The Non Believers, Your Escape
• The Orphanage, DarkPark

Games with Actors

• Catacombs, Logic Locks
• CORPSE, INC, Escape Room Junkie
• Jason’s Legacy, OuterGround
• Kamer 237
• Stay in the Dark, DarkPark
• The End, DarkPark
• The Vault, Sherlocked

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

🔒 Golden Lock award winning experience

Update 1/6/24: 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.