10 Best Escape Rooms in the USA

1: The Escape Game Chicago

Escape Game Chicago is one of Windy City’s most exciting escape room games! Choose between five games: Prison Break, The Heist, Mission: Mars, Gold Rush, and Special Ops. Each game offers an hour of brain-bending fun! These games look and feel like real historical, sci-fi, or thrill scenarios. Which game will you explore first?

2: Breakout KC - Kansas City

If you want variety, you can find it at Breakout KC. There are ten different rooms here! Do you want to find the cure that will save humanity? Be a detective? Join the Civil War? You can do this and more at Breakout KC. This escape room is ranked among the top five escape rooms in the US by Trip Advisor, and it’s easy to see why. You can find this escape game in not one, but two locations in Kansas City: River Market and Park Place.

3: Room Escape Live - Los Angeles

Los Angeles’ premier escape room experience is found at RoomEscape by Fox in a Box. This escape room has seven games, including historic games, science fiction games, and the ever-popular zombie escape room. At this escape game, you can go with a group of up to eight, or you can enjoy a date night with just two.

4: The Crooked Key - Steamboat Springs

This escape room game in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, is the perfect way to spend a freezing winter day in Colorado. The most intriguing game here is Taphophobia, an Edgar Allan Poe themed game with overtones of classic horror. If literary puzzles aren’t your thing, you can also travel to the Old West or play the part of a pet-saving fireman.

5: The Secret Chambers — Fort Worth

If you like thrill adventures, you’ll love these chilling escape games. The Cthulhu adventures will require you to escape from epic danger in Rhode Island, while the Pirate Adventure will immerse you in Pirates of the Caribbean style mysteries. Be sure to dress up and get in character for these games!

6: Trapology Boston

Fun… mysterious… crazy… Trapology Boston is the perfect way to spend a drizzly New England afternoon! The four games featured in this escape room will be sure to make your heart pound as you try to solve the puzzles. The Drunk Tank puts you in a Boston jail cell after an eventful bar crawl. The Hustler throws you into a crisis as you try to escape a gambling debt. The Retreat is set in a haunted Airbnb, and Crush Depth puts you at odds with a seafaring ghost.

7: Mission Escape – Atlanta

Two dark and mysterious escape rooms await at Mission Escape Atlanta. Step out of the Georgia sunshine and into the shrouds of intrigue and mystery. You will find yourself in one of two rooms: The Study, where you must recover a stolen crown jewel before the thief returns, or The Hotel, where a deranged hotel owner has trapped you to stay forever as his “friends.”

8: Real Escape Game - San Francisco

If you’re a fan of epic movies, this escape room is just your style. Don’t settle for the theater—jump into your own adventure! This room features the Pop Stars Room of Doom, where you have to save your favorite pop star. Or, you can opt for the Transformers-style Pacific Rim or magical Spellbound Supper.

9: The Escape Game Dallas

Like the other Escape Game franchises, The Escape Game Dallas is one of the best escape rooms in the USA with four adventures to choose from. Pick your favorite game—Prison Break, The Heist, Playground, or Gold Rush—and enjoy an hour of fun and problem-solving!

10: Locked In: The Birmingham Escape Game - Birmingham, Alabama

The Birmingham Escape Game was named one of the top five escape rooms in the US by USA Today. This room is a blast! Gamers love this escape room for its codes, puzzles, and heart-thumping action. Only half of players crack government secrets at The Warehouse, while even fewer escape The Battleship, The Laboratory, and the nearly-impossible Classroom.