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Latest update: March 2026

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.

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. Scroll to the end for our recommendations for Ocala, Sanford, Clearwater, Sarasota, and Port Charlotte.

Market Standouts

• Captain Spoopy Bones, Doldrick’s Escape Room 🔒
• Cornstalkers: Lost In The Maize, The Escape Ventures Orlando 🔒
• Crazy Train, Doldrick’s Escape Room 🔒
• Galactic Beef: The Cosmic Adventures of Star Cow, Doldrick’s Escape Room 🔒
• Neighborhood Watcher, The Escape Ventures Orlando 🔒
• Operation Arctic Storm: The Final Meltdown, The Escape Ventures Orlando🔒

Scroll to the bottom for other top games in the region, including more Golden Lock winning games.

Puzzle Focused

• A Knight To Escape, The Escape Effect
• At Odds with the Gods, The Escape Effect
• At the Hop Ice Cream Shoppe, Dare 2 Escape
• Crazy Train, Doldrick’s Escape Room
• Fright Before Your Eyes, The Escape Effect… unusual puzzle style!
• Haunted Harbor, The Escape Ventures Winter Garden
• Operation Arctic Storm: The Final Meltdown, The Escape Ventures Orlando

Story Centric

• Cornstalkers: Lost In The Maize, The Escape Ventures Orlando
• Crazy Train, Doldrick’s Escape Room
• Fright Before Your Eyes, The Escape Effect
• Galactic Beef: The Cosmic Adventures of Star Cow, Doldrick’s Escape Room
• Neighborhood Watcher, The Escape Ventures Orlando
• Puppet Heist: The Hand of Life, The Bureau
• Strange Magic, Mind Masters

Set & Scenery Driven

• Cinema 7, Will to Escape
• Cornstalkers: Lost In The Maize, The Escape Ventures Orlando
• Crazy Train, Doldrick’s Escape Room
• Operation Arctic Storm: The Final Meltdown, The Escape Ventures Orlando
• Possession at Haddon Heights, The Bureau 🔒
• The Seventh Room, Dare 2 Escape
• UFO: Go for Launch, The Bureau

Spooky & Scary

• Cinema 7, Will to Escape (spooky, not scary)
• Cornstalkers: Lost In The Maize, The Escape Ventures Orlando
• Haunted Harbor, The Escape Ventures Winter Garden (not scary, just atmospherically spooky)
• Neighborhood Watcher, The Escape Ventures Orlando (not scary, just a bit intense)
• Possession at Haddon Heights, The Bureau
• The Seventh Room, Dare 2 Escape

Beginner Friendly

• Adventure “S.O.A.E.”, Edge Escape
• Bros for Life Fraternity Heist, The Escape Ventures Orlando
• 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 Orlando
• The Video Store: Be Kind Rewind, Dare 2 Escape

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 Orlando
• Captain Spoopy Bones, Doldrick’s Escape Room
• Crazy Train, Doldrick’s Escape Room
• Galactic Beef: The Cosmic Adventures of Star Cow, 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

Regional Roadtrip

In Central Florida (~1 hour away):

• Carter’s Haberdashery and the Curse of the Ancient Gold, Escape Artists Sanford
• Mr. Elegoo’s Enchanted Emporium, The Ocala Escape

In Clearwater, FL (2 hours away):

• Pins & Needles Tattoo Parlor, The Exit Games FL 🔒
• Servants of Sleight, The Exit Games FL 🔒

In Sarasota, FL (2 hours away)

• EXTERMINATED: Terror at the Junkyard, Evasive Escape Rooms
• The Family Fallout Shelter, Evasive Escape Rooms

In Port Charlotte, FL (3 hours away):

• Click ‘N Glitch, The Escape Ventures 🔒
• Nightfall: Creature at Camp Deadwood, The Escape Ventures
• Phantom Files, The Escape Ventures

REPOD

On REPOD, co-hosts Peih-Gee Law and David Spira interview immersive gaming creators about the nuance of their craft.

Curtis Ratliff and Derek Townsley from The Escape Ventures were recently interviewed for REPOD.

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

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

Spoilers Club

In this monthly Patreon exclusive podcast, David Spira and Peih-Gee Law discuss an escape room in great detail, spoilers and all! Often bringing on the creator to go behind the scenes.

To listen to this show, back Room Escape Artist on Patreon at the “Search Win!” level ($15 per month). We have Spoilers Club episodes on the following games from this recommendations guide:

• Episode 38: Captain Spoopy Bones and the Magnificent Quest For Some Other Pirate’s Treasure!, Doldrick’s Escape Room

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

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