Room Escape Artist

For this, the inaugural REAction Awards, there are 3 winners, one in each of three categories.

This will be an annual award for taking action to make the escape room world more vibrant, but the categories of the awards will vary from year to year.

The 2025 winners are being honored for:

• Community Engagement
• Getting Started
• Business Practice

Each of these three winners has made something special.

In this awards video, we speak about each winner and their work. Rather than capture the feelings expressed during the award ceremony with a few short sentences here, we hope you’ll listen to the show and appreciate what each winner has made.

REAction Award 2025 Winners

Community Engagement

Winner: Jana Erbes

We are celebrating Jana’s documentary about the epic horror escape rooms in the Benelux region. Watch the documentary.

Getting Started

Winner: Tyler Neufeld

We are celebrating Tyler’s gumption in turning his dorm room into a fun escape room. Read our write up of Tyler’s game Code Green.

Business Practice

Winner: The Escape Ventures, owned by Curtis Ratliff and Derek Townsley

We are celebrating how quickly they’ve created so many wonderful escape games. Read our reviews of the games at The Escape Ventures.

Listen to our podcast interview with them on REPOD Season 8, Episode 8: Move Fast & Make Things.

Congratulations to the 2025 REAction Award Winners!