Room Escape Artist

Latest update: April 2, 2025

In Orlando, escape rooms are competing with the biggest names in entertainment for a share of your time and your money. While it might be hard to pry yourself away from the parks, it will be worth it. There are some outstanding escape rooms in Orlando.

Each company in the region offers a different style. There’s humor, inventive interaction design, and character-driven storytelling.

That said, there are plenty of newbie-friendly experiences to check out. There are also a few spooky games, for the Halloween Horror Nights fans.

And, FYI, Universal also offers escape rooms, but we strongly recommend avoiding Universal’s Great Movie Escape. Check out these recommendations instead.

We took Escape Immerse Explore to Orlando in 2023! To see which games our 60 traveling escape room enthusiasts liked best, check out these survey results.

This recommendation guide covers more than just Orlando. We have recommendations for Ocala, Sanford, Clearwater, and Port Charlotte included below as well.

Market Standouts

• Captain Spoopy Bones, Doldrick’s Escape Room 🔒
• Crazy Train, Doldrick’s Escape Room 🔒
• Neighborhood Watcher, The Escape Ventures 🔒
• Operation Arctic Storm: The Final Meltdown, The Escape Ventures 🔒

In Clearwater, FL (2 hours away):

1. Pins & Needles Tattoo Parlor, The Exit Games FL 🔒
2. Servants of Sleight, The Exit Games FL 🔒

In Port Charlotte, FL (3 hours away):

1. Click ‘N Glitch, The Escape Ventures 🔒
2. Phantom Files, The Escape Ventures
3. Nightfall: Creature at Camp Deadwood, The Escape Ventures

Set & Scenery Driven

• Carter’s Haberdashery and the Curse of the Ancient Gold, Escape Artists Sanford (Sanford, FL)
• Cinema 7, Will to Escape
• Crazy Train, Doldrick’s Escape Room
• Operation Arctic Storm: The Final Meltdown, The Escape Ventures
• Possession at Haddon Heights, The Bureau
• The Escape Game (multiple games, Playground is a favorite 🔒 )
• The Seventh Room, Dare 2 Escape
• UFO: Go for Launch, The Bureau

Theatrical

• Crazy Train, Doldrick’s Escape Room
• Neighborhood Watcher, The Escape Ventures
• Puppet Heist: The Hand of Life, The Bureau
• Strange Magic, Mind Masters

Humorous

This is one of the few cities that has a really long list of outstanding games in this category!

• Bros for Life Fraternity Heist, The Escape Ventures
• Captain Spoopy Bones, Doldrick’s Escape Room
• Crazy Train, Doldrick’s Escape Room
• Jewel Thief, Edge Escape
• Operation Treehouse: Capture the Flag, The Escape Ventures – Winter Garden
• Puppet Heist: The Hand of Life, The Bureau
• Red Sled Redemption, Doldrick’s Escape Room 🔒
• Spoopy’s Ghoulish Graveyard Gameshow, Doldrick’s Escape Room
• Super Bomb Squad, Doldrick’s Escape Room
• UFO: Go for Launch, The Bureau

Puzzle-Centric

• A Knight To Escape, Escape Effect
• At Odds with the Gods, The Escape Effect
• Carter’s Haberdashery and the Curse of the Ancient Gold, Escape Artists Sanford (Sanford, FL)
• Crazy Train, Doldrick’s Escape Room
• Dragon Challenge: A Hero’s Choice, The Escape Ventures- Winter Garden (this game was formally known as The Quest, by Escape Goat)
• Operation Arctic Storm: The Final Meltdown, The Escape Ventures

Newbie-Friendly

• Adventure “S.O.A.E.,” Edge Escape
• At the Hop Ice Cream Shoppe, Dare 2 Escape
• Bros for Life Fraternity Heist, The Escape Ventures
• Mr. Elegoo’s Enchanted Emporium, The Ocala Escape (Ocala, FL)
• Operation Treehouse: Capture the Flag, The Escape Ventures – Winter Garden
• Spoopy’s Ghoulish Graveyard Gameshow, Doldrick’s Escape Room
• The Escape Game (multiple games)
• The Satirical Miracle: A Jolly Tale of Granny’s Blackmail, The Escape Ventures
• The Video Store: Be Kind Rewind, Dare 2 Escape

Spooky & Scary

• Cinema 7, Will to Escape (spooky, not scary)
• Neighborhood Watcher, The Escape Ventures (not scary, just a bit intense)
• Possession at Haddon Heights, The Bureau
• The Seventh Room, Dare 2 Escape

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Update 12/18/24: Curtis Ratliff and Derek Townsley from The Escape Ventures were recently interviewed for REPOD.

If you enjoyed the games at The Exit Game, check out this REPOD interview with Taylor Pfyffer and Josh Skidmore.

We also interviewed Mike Dold and Rick George from Doldrick’s on REPOD.