Latest update: May 19, 2023
Just north of San Jose, in the heart of Silicon Valley, is a rising escape room destination: Omescape’s Sunnyvale facility. Currently housing 7 rooms, almost all over an hour long, a team of enthusiasts could easily spend at least a full day here.
While many other escape room facilities in the South Bay offer lower quality games mostly targeted at corporate team-building, there are some other rising stars in the area. We are especially keeping our eye on Asheville at Off the Couch, which is in the process of creating a multi-hour episodic escape experience.
If you’re in the area, check out our guides to San Francisco and Sacramento.
Market Standouts
- Undercooked, Omescape Sunnyvale 🔒
- Robotopia, Omescape Sunnyvale (review coming soon)
- Midnight in Hong Kong, Omescape Sunnyvale
- Chaos in the Galleria, Omescape Sunnyvale
Games we haven’t played yet:
- Asheville, Off the Couch (see our reviews of the original Occam’s Apartment and Norcross Art Gallery in Los Angeles)
Set & Scenery Driven
- Chaos in the Galleria, Omescape Sunnyvale
- Forsaken Temple, Omescape Sunnyvale
- Kingdom of Cat-tastrophy, Omescape Sunnyvale
- Midnight in Hong Kong, Omescape Sunnyvale
- Robotopia, Omescape Sunnyvale (review coming soon)
- Undercooked, Omescape Sunnyvale
Story Centric
Large Team
Something Different
- Mystery Spot – a “gravitational anomaly” near Santa Cruz that is not an escape room… but feels like it maybe should be (and makes for some great photo ops!)
- Winchester Mystery House – a mysterious mansion with a peculiar history that has been the inspiration for at least one virtual escape room
🔒 Golden Lock award-winning experience
And even though it’s a virtual-only room, shout out to “Pursuit of the Assassin Artist” which is also an Omescape San Jose creation. REA Golden Lock Award winner in 2020 and it’s still available: https://roomescapeartist.com/2020/09/23/omescape-pursuit-assassin-artist-hivemind-review/
Seriously those folks are killing it!