Our favourites

Yes that was hard, but here are our Top 25 so far.

Andrea’s Top 25

  1. The undersea overthrow – Improbable escapes HQ
  2. Job de marde – Déserteur jeu d’évasion
  3. Underwater Lair – Escape!
  4. Neverland: Heist of the high sea – Improbable escapes Wonderland
  5. Magnifico – Escaparium
  6. Mindmaster Industries – Escape city
  7. The Graveyard – Next level escape rooms
  8. The Cave of Five Elements to Save Humanity – Lockdown
  9. Playground – The escape game
  10. Prohibition: Last call – Captured escape rooms
  11. Kappa – Exode
  12. The body shop – Red fox escapes
  13. Undermined – Room escape Ottawa
  14. Budapest express – Escapology
  15. Firefighter rescue – Escape from the 6
  16. Pipes and princesses – Ichabod’s escape
  17. The last laugh – Perplexity Escape games
  18. Le palais des voeux – 60 minutes jeux d’évasion
  19. La Cabane ensorcelée – 60 minutes jeux d’évasion
  20. It came from the attic – Looking glass adventure
  21. Wizardry: Wizard Tournament – Escape 60
  22. The lost shipwreck – Crypto escape rooms
  23. Marv’s Diner Deluxe – Eureka
  24. Yukon gold – Escape!
  25. Mrs Ming’s old shop – Atelier des énigmes

The most important aspect of an escape room for me is the puzzles. I look for varied puzzle logic with a good balance between locks, automatic mechanisms, and manipulation. I prefer non-linear rooms where everyone has something to do. Puzzles should make sense with the theme and story, and I especially enjoy those with multiple steps.
For decor, I appreciate when the room has a purpose and the flow aligns with the story. I prefer multiple rooms escape game and when there’s good attention to details, but I can overlook decor issues if the puzzles are exceptional.
I don’t enjoy actors or guided rooms; I prefer to complete the experience with just my group and without constant interruptions for videos or audio. I also like it when the game master follows our progress and impersonate a character while providing hints.
My favorite themes are always those who are unique, funny and surprising!

Gaël’s Top 25

  1. Magnifico – Escaparium
  2. Underwater Lair – Escape!
  3. Mindmaster Industries – Escape City
  4. The undersea overthrow – Improbable escapes HQ
  5. Kappa – Exode
  6. Job de marde – Déserteur jeu d’évasion
  7. Firefighter rescue – Escape from the 6
  8. The Cave of Five Elements to Save Humanity – Lockdown
  9. Best Friends – Escape 60
  10. The body shop – Red fox escapes
  11. Mrs Ming’s old shop– Atelier des énigmes
  12. Wizardry: Wizard Tournament – Escape 60
  13. Playground – The escape game
  14. The Graveyard – Next level escape rooms
  15. The last laugh – Perplexity Escape games
  16. Neverland: heist of the high sea – Improbable escapes Wonderland
  17. Storyteller’s secret – Boxaroo
  18. Pipes and princesses – Ichabod’s escape
  19. Chaos effect – Trapped
  20. The lost shipwreck – Crypto escape rooms
  21. Abstraction – Eliviascape
  22. Lost and Found – Perplexity Escape games
  23. Wicca – SOS aventures
  24. The witching hour – Trapology
  25. Prohibition: Last call – Captured escape rooms

Sophie’s Top 25

  1. Magnifico – Escaparium
  2. The undersea overthrow – Improbable escapes HQ
  3. Mindmaster Industries – Escape City
  4. Firefighter rescue – Escape from the 6
  5. The Graveyard – Next level escape rooms
  6. Underwater Lair – Escape !
  7. Neverland: heist of the high sea – Improbable escapes Wonderland
  8. The Cave of Five Elements to Save Humanity – Lockdown
  9. Kappa – Exode
  10. The last laugh – Perplexity Escape games
  11. Job de Marde – Déserteur jeu d’évasion
  12. The lost island of the voodoo queen – Escaparium
  13. Clue – Next level escape rooms
  14. Pipes and princesses – Ichabod’s escape
  15. Le palais des voeux – 60 minutes jeux d’évasion
  16. The ark – The escape game Canada
  17. Reactor 4 – Ready set go adventures
  18. The final stop V2 – Escaparium
  19. Undermined – Room escape Ottawa
  20. The lost shipwreck – Crypto escape rooms
  21. Lost and Found – Perplexity Escape games
  22. The Alley – Keymaster escape rooms
  23. La cabane ensorcelée – 60 minutes jeux d’évasion
  24. The witches of Everwinter – Confundrum escape rooms
  25. Le carnaval oublié – Escaparium

The main criteria that make me enjoy an escape room are the puzzles and the decor. The puzzles should be related to the theme and logical, requiring some thought. I really like locks, but I also appreciate a good mix of different types of mechanisms. The decor should be realistic and believable. They don’t need to be the most impressive for me to fall in love with a room.
Next, the game master should be motivated and in character, either in person or over the phone, to maintain the connection to the theme. There should be someone who follows your progress to know where you are and give you the right hint. I enjoy original and unique scenarios.
Guided escape rooms with a story that interrupts the game are not really my type. I love the stories of scary escape rooms, but unfortunately, I get really frightened, and my courage fades once I’m in the room. If there are only small jumps and a tense atmosphere, I can manage. However, if there are live actors, it’s impossible for me to participate. Overall, what matters most is if I had fun and enjoyed my experience.

Top 5 – Alcohol/Bar

  1. Prohibition: last call – Captured escape rooms
  2. La micro-disparition – Défi évasion
  3. Wine cellar – Escape manor
  4. The clandestine bar – Sauve qui peut
  5. The Piccadilly cabaret: revisited – Immersia

Top 5 – Alice Wonderland

  1. Chaos au pays des merveilles – Paradox 42
  2. Au pays des merveilles – À double tour
  3. Mad’er Tea party – Ichabod’s escape
  4. Alice and the Mad Hatter’s Mad Hat’s Hat – Escaparium
  5. Rabbit hole – Escape!

Top 5 – Aztec

  1. The Curse of the Jade Skull – Escaparium
  2. Lost city – Escapology
  3. Cursed temple – Crypto escape rooms
  4. La coupe de la vie éternelle – Escaparium
  5. The legend of the Mayan warrior – Eliviascape

Top 10 – Cabin

  1. La cabane ensorcelée – 60 minutes jeux d’évasion
  2. Chamanik – Escaparium
  3. Twisted woods – Confundrum
  4. The cabin – Escape city
  5. Cabin fever – Confined escape rooms
  6. Weekend at the shack – Immersia
  7. Crépuscule – Vortex
  8. The warden’s cabin – Eureka
  9. Nightfall – GTFO escape entertainment
  10. Buried Cabin – Escape!

Top 5 – Cave/Mine

  1. The cave of the five elements to save humanity– Lockdown
  2. Undermined – Room escape Ottawa
  3. Gold rush – The escape game
  4. Le jubilé d’or – Escaparium
  5. Mine collapse – La clef de l’énigme

Top 5 – Egyptian pyramids

  1. Unforeseeable pyramid – Freeing Canada station
  2. Tomb raiders – Mission possible
  3. Le secret des dunes – Double tour
  4. The secret of Denderah _ Sauve qui peut
  5. Back to the mummy – Roundabout

Top 5 – Circus

  1. Cirque Magnifico – Escaparium
  2. The last laugh – Perplexity escape games
  3. Circus of the lost souls – Immersia
  4. Le carnaval oublié – Escaparium
  5. The carnaval – Trapped

Top 5 – Enchanted forest

  1. Dream portal – Daydream
  2. Twisted tales: The witch’s revenge – Unlocked Ottawa
  3. Wardrobe for sale – Escaparium
  4. Once upon a time – Omventure
  5. Fairy tale – Enigma escape room

Top 10 – Famous Tv show/Movie

  1. Neverland: heist of the high sea – Improbable escapes Wonderland
  2. Le palais des voeux – 60 minutes jeux d’évasion
  3. Best friends – Escape 60
  4. The Thompsons – Next level escape rooms
  5. Seven dwarfs: mining mission – Improbable escapes Wonderland
  6. Trouble à Springfield – La clef de l’énigme
  7. Prank dwight – Escape 60
  8. Scooby Doo and the spooky castle adventure – Escapology
  9. Turtle Power – Lift lock escape
  10. Oz – Escaparium

Top 5 – Harry Potter

  1. Wizard tournament – Escape 60
  2. Walden’s wizarding shop– Looking glass adventure
  3. The triwizard trials – Improbable escapes HQ
  4. Wizardry: dark order – Escape 60
  5. Wizard’s academy – Beyond belief

Top 10 – Haunted/Supernatural

  1. Possédé – Déserteur jeu d’évasion
  2. New haven orphanage– Confundrum
  3. The longest night – Eliviascape
  4. Frank’s revenge – Escape City
  5. Forgotten cathedral – Escaparium
  6. The dollhouse – Trapped
  7. The other side – Fox in a box
  8. The gate – Perplexity escape games
  9. The haunting of the apartment 103 chapter 2 – Level 1 escape
  10. The haunted apartment – Xperience games

Top 5 – Heist

  1. The hot dog heist – Trapology
  2. The great train heist – The locked room southland
  3. The heist – GTFO escape Entertainment
  4. Bank robbery – Puzzleroom
  5. Great western bank heist – Mind hack room escape

Top 5 – Holidays

  1. Who sleighed Granma? – Mind hack room escape
  2. 24 – Exode
  3. Rescue Jacky the gingerbread – La clef de l’énigme
  4. Christmas scene investigation – Beyond belief
  5. L’atelier du Père Noël – Déserteur jeu d’évasion

Top 5 – Investigation

  1. Kappa – Exode
  2. It came from the attic – Looking glass adventures
  3. Le manipulateur – Déserteur jeu d’évasion
  4. Orient express – Game over
  5. L’enquête se poursuit chez Bernard Jones – Paradox 42

Top 5 – Laboratory

  1. Mindmaster industries – Escape City
  2. The extraction – Crypto escape rooms
  3. Below Zero – Crypto escape rooms
  4. Le projet Alux – 60 minutes jeux d’évasion
  5. La folie d’Edgar – Mission évasion

Top 5 – Medieval

  1. Le château du supplice éternel- Sauve qui peut
  2. L’antre du dragon – 60 minutes jeux d’évasion
  3. The legend of the three dragons – Escaparium
  4. The elixir – Défi évasion
  5. La prophétie du dragon – Vortex

Top 10 – Murders

  1. The St-Onge case: week end at the shack 2 – Immersia
  2. Budapest express – Escapology
  3. The workshop of terror – Défi Évasion
  4. Serial killer charade – Room escape Ottawa
  5. Camping mortel – Mission Évasion
  6. Let’s play a game – Alcatraz escape room
  7. Judgment day – Eliviascape
  8. The estate of John Jackson – Sauve qui peut
  9. Défendu – Exode
  10. Jack the ripper – Trapped

Top 10 – Pirates

  1. The lost island of the voodoo queen – Escaparium
  2. The lost shipwreck – Crypto escape rooms
  3. Mutiny – Escape city
  4. Pirate Ship – Escape!
  5. Plunder the sea – Captured
  6. Pirate cove – Fox in a box
  7. The cursed lovers of Saint-Laurent – Échappe toi
  8. Shipwrecked – Unlocked
  9. Hooked – Escape manor
  10. Cursed treasure – SOS aventures

Top 5 – Prison

  1. La grande évasion – À double tour
  2. L’évasion – Escaparium
  3. The penitentiary – Omventure
  4. Death Row – Escape manor
  5. Al-patraz framed – Échappe toi

Top 5 – School

  1. Retenue à Riverdale – Paradox 42
  2. Playground – The escape game
  3. The final exam – Sauve qui peut
  4. Expelled – Keymaster
  5. He is a maniac – Trapped

Top 5 – Sorcerers

  1. The graveyard – Next level escape rooms
  2. The witches of Everwinter – Confundrum
  3. Wicca – SOS aventures
  4. The Sorcerer’s secret – Crypto escape rooms
  5. Warlocked – Room escape Ottawa

Top 5 – Space

  1. Way of the mando – Escape 60
  2. Neptune sous zéro – La clef de l’énigme
  3. Pandora – Evasio
  4. Across the universe – La clef de l’énigme
  5. Orbite – Exode

Top 5 – Spy

  1. Mission nain possible – SOS aventures
  2. Special ops: Mysterious market – The escape game
  3. Profession : spy – Défi évasion
  4. Operation flamingo: secret agent – Looking glass adventures
  5. True spies – Perplexity escape games

Top 5 – Superheroes

  1. Revengers Assemble – Escape 60
  2. The superhero academy – Défi Évasion
  3. Joker: The last laugh – Exit
  4. Heroes – Mission possible
  5. Superheist – Unlocked

Top 5 – Time machine

  1. Warp inc : Time travel – Immersia
  2. Timeliner: Train through time – The escape game
  3. Projet R.E.S.E.T. – Immersia
  4. Chaos effect – Trapped
  5. Tesla time machine – Next level escape rooms

Top 5 – Underwater

  1. The undersea overthrow – Improbable escape HQ
  2. Underwater lair – Escape!
  3. The ark – The escape game Canada
  4. La colère de poséidon – Sauve qui peut
  5. Underwater expedition – Défi evasion

Top 10 – Unique themes

  1. Firefighter rescue – Escape from the 6
  2. The alley – Keymasters
  3. The body shop – Red fox escapes
  4. Va chez l’yâbe – À Double tour
  5. Storyteller’s secret – Boxaroo
  6. Clue – Next level escape rooms
  7. The final stop V2 – Escaparium
  8. Deliverance – Room escape Ottawa
  9. Bébé lala – Déserteur jeu d’évasion
  10. Bernie Block – Escaparium

Top 5 – War/Army

  1. The call of duty – Alcatraz escape room
  2. Recrue – Exode évasion
  3. Boom room – Room escape Ottawa
  4. Mission dreadnought – Labyrinth escape game
  5. Citadel Hills – Captured

Top 5 – Western

  1. Yukon gold – Escape!
  2. Once upon a time at Sunnyside – Défi évasion
  3. Escape the wild west – Escape from the 6
  4. Far west – La clef de l’énigme
  5. Golden nugget saloon – Fox in a box