Escape Room Atlanta: 11+ Gripping & Apocalyptic Escape Room Venues You Must Check Out

Looking for the perfect escape room? If you’re looking for a cool escape room Atlanta has it.

Escape rooms are great fun all on their own, but they’re also a great alternative if you’re not a big haunted house fan and a great activity for friends and family!  Atlanta GA has some of the creepiest, spookiest, and scariest escape rooms designs around — perfect to try during Halloween time!

You can test your wits against the clock, discover clues, and solve puzzles — all while getting your heart pumping.  This particular list of escape rooms all have a creepy bent — so a visit to any of these will get you in the Halloween spirit.

And if you’re not into creepy, that’s okay!  Most of these escape room companies have other options — so you’re sure to find one that suits you and your crew.

Here are 11+ of the best escape rooms Atlanta, Georgia, has to offer.

WHAT IS AN ESCAPE THE ROOM GAME?

Escape room games are basically mystery games!

In a typical escape room experience, you are locked in a room with anywhere from 2 to 15 players.  You and your team must then find clues inside the room to help you solve the mystery so you can successfully escape!  During your experience, you’ll be solving puzzles, cracking codes, and really testing your skills.  In most cases, you have about 60 minutes to escape.

Escape rooms are fun for date nights, hanging out with friends, and testing your skills, and they make for a good team-building exercise too!

What surprised me most was that it wasn’t just one room — but a series of rooms!  So just as you think you’ve won, you have more clues to solve.

It’s a great time and not as easy as you may think!  For a perfectly creepy escape room in Atlanta, check out our list below.

THE CREEPIEST ESCAPE ROOMS

Below are 11+ escape room companies that sounded seriously creepy!  Looking for some of the best escape games Atlanta has to offer? Then check out our list below.

THE ESCAPE GAME ATLANTA (THE BATTERY)

PRISON BREAK

The year is 1955 and you’ve been wrongfully accused of a crime, and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Your new “home” is a cell that once belonged to an inmate who disappeared without a trace…or did he?

The Prison Break game at The Escape Game Atlanta at The Battery is for 2-8 players, is 60 minutes long, and is considered pretty difficult — so try at your own risk!

ESCAPE WOODS (POWDER SPRINGS)

THE HUNTED: THE HOLLOW GROVE RIPPER

In The Hunted: The Hollow Grove Ripper, you and your team are part of a hit true crime podcast that recently covered a story that travelled to the top of the podcast charts. Eager to follow up on your first season’s success you want to cover a new and even darker story. ​

Your research into a new story lands you on an obscure website that talks about a deeply evil person that lives deep in the woods. The website claims that this person has grown fond of the taste of human meat, especially human lungs. You think that this is probably made up but you need another hit season so you are your team decide to check it out. You are going to regret ever landing on that website…

This one is super scary. You must be at least 15 to do it, and have at least one person who is 18+ in your group.

HOPPER’S CABIN: THE CABIN FROM STRANGER THINGS

If you have seen Stranger Things seasons 2 and 3, then you probably saw Hopper’s Cabin a lot. Hopper, 11, and their friends spent much of the seasons in the cabin. Some of you may know that Hopper’s Cabin is actually located on Sleepy Hollow Farm, which is where Escape Woods is located so we have decided to turn it into an escape room adventure for all of the Stranger Things fans out there.

​In this adventure you and your team will have to explore Hopper & 11’s cabin, decipher clues, unlock doors, and solve the mystery before time runs out. Don’t miss out on this totally unique adventure in the actual cabin from the hit show!

BREAKOUT ATLANTA (Atlanta and Peachtree Corners)

THE KIDNAPPING

At Breakout Atlanta, The Kidnapping begins with you and your fellow captives waking up handcuffed and blindfolded in a strange room. With nothing but collective brainpower, hidden clues, and 60 minutes on your side, you have to free yourselves before the kidnapper returns.

We’ve heard this is one of the most thrilling escape rooms from start to finish.

Confession: We were too chicken to try The Kidnapping. (Ok, *I* was too chicken because I didn’t want to be handcuffed)!

At Breakout Atlana — all the escape room experiences are private, so there won’t be strangers working with you.  Just your family, friends, and you!

MASTERMIND ESCAPE THE ROOM (PEACHTREE CITY and SANDY SPRINGS)

ZOMBIE SURVIVAL RUN (PEACHTREE CITY)

Mastermind Escape Rooms has two locations in the metro area — Peachtree City and Sandy Springs. In Zombie Survival Run at the Peachtree City location, the world is a post-apocalyptic zombie wasteland. You and your friends are out on a supply run, when a massive horde of zombies swarms you.

You manage to barricade yourselves inside a convenience store, but it won’t take the zombies long to break through.

You have to gather supplies, find a way to send a signal for help, and get to the rooftop for pick-up before the zombies break through your barricade.

THE SHED (SANDY SPRINGS)

Mastermind Escape Rooms has some great escape rooms too, including their new room: The Shed.

You’ve been hearing disturbing rumors about your neighbor. When he leaves his house, you decide to check things out to see if those rumors are true. Find out what secrets your neighbor is hiding before he comes back and finds you snooping around. Just stay away from the shed out back or you may never escape.

ULTIMATE ESCAPE ROOM (ATLANTA)

AMNESIA

During your Amnesia escape room experience, you and your party will explore the real life inner workings of the human mind — in a 1950’s mental hospital!  You’ll work to discover the truth behind an amnesic patient’s mysterious past in this chilling room escape thriller.

This one is not recommended for kids under 14 or novice players, since it’s one of their most challenging escape rooms.

Ultimate Escape Game is only doing private groups.  You must have at least 4 in your group to participate.

TIME TO ESCAPE (2 ATLANTA LOCATIONS)

ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ

In Escape from Alcatraz, the year is 1962, and Alcatraz is about to see its greatest escape attempt.

Earlier in the evening, a prisoner named Frank Morris successfully escaped. It’s up to you and your crew to follow the clues left behind by Frank, but you only have an hour to do it.  It’s your last chance to escape!

The current best time on this one is 28 minutes!  Think you can beat that?!

PARANOIA QUEST (ATLANTA and BUFORD)

ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE

During Zombie Apocalypse, you are a group of zombie apocalypse survivors assembled as a special force team. Your mission – to break into a highly secured government facility, find the cure, and save the world before it’s too late.  You’ve got 60 minutes!

Think you can do it?  Sure you can!  (Maybe.)

URBAN ESCAPE GAMES (ALPHARETTA, MARIETTA)

JEWEL HEIST

During Jewel Heist, a challenge has been issued by an elusive figure – can you steal from the world’s greatest thief?

You’ll have to enter her elaborate estate to see if you have what it takes to pull off the heist of a lifetime in under an hour!​

This one is for 2-8 players, 60 minutes, and is considered moderately difficult.

BIG ESCAPE ROOMS (ATLANTA)

CLOWN

Even the picture on the website for this one gives me the creeps — I cannot imagine actually being there!

In Clown, the story goes that you and your friends have been trapped in an abandoned circus by Boris — a crazed, serial killer clown. (Of course!)

The good news is that Boris is in a playful mood and he’s giving you a chance to escape — but only if you can succeed at his twisted games.

You’ll have one hour to search for clues that will help you solve the puzzle and escape from his traps. You must make it out before Boris tires of playing and makes you his latest victims!

This one is recommended for teams that are less experienced with escape rooms. It’s considered intermediate though, so it’s still a challenge.

THE ESCAPERY (MARIETTA)

JACK THE RIPPER

What could be more gruesome for Halloween than tracking down Jack the Ripper?!

In Jack the Ripper, the key suspect in the Jack the Ripper case has escaped — and now another young woman is missing! As detectives, you must track him to his lair in the abandoned butcher shop and rescue his final victim before time runs out.

This one may contain jump scares, and contains gore and thematic elements.  Definitely enter at your own risk!

ESCAPE THE NETHERWORLD (STONE MOUNTAIN)

After purchasing 10 acres of property in Stone Mountain in 2017, the team behind NETHERWORLD Haunted House knew they wanted to expand beyond haunted attractions and into the popular new world of escape rooms. The initial launch of Escape the NetherWorld featured three games followed by a fourth in 2019 with a variety of themes designed to challenge and entertain both novices and experts.

Created for groups of 4 to 8 players, Haunted: Curse of the Night Hag and Sasquatch: Bigfoot’s Revenge are challenging enough for everyone to enjoy with Tiki Island: Attack of the Shark God and Nosferatu: Van Helsing’s Secret upping the complexity just enough to give players an even greater challenge.

Escape the NETHERWORLD is widely renowned for escape rooms that feature both intricate and challenging gameplay in addition to incredibly detailed sets and elaborate twists and turns that completely immerse guests into the game. But fear not, game masters are present to help guide guests and provide clues (if needed) along the way.

New in 2023: In Alien Terror: Doom of The Dark Horizon, you have booked a passage on a deep space mining vessel to experience the ultimate thrill – navigating the event horizon of a massive black hole! Awakening from a long slumber, you discover the crew is missing, the ship is experiencing massive failures and some sort of THING is lurking in the darkness hounding your every move! Will you be able to escape the doomed ship before it is pulled into the swirling gravity vortex – or will you meet the same horrible fate as the rest of the crew?

Escape Room Atlanta FAQ

How much to most escape rooms cost?

In the United States, the average price for an escape room experience runs between $25 and $40 usually. Of course, prices certainly vary, depending on different factors such as location, time of the experience, and whether it’s a public or private experience.

What ages work for escape rooms?

Most escape rooms have age limits, due to a number of factors. For a lot of the scarier escape rooms on this list, the age limits are much higher. In general, escape rooms are best for high school-aged teens and above.

Can I wear a dress to an escape room?

Most escape rooms don’t have a strict dress policy, but generally speaking, you’ll want to wear something that’s comfortable and easy to move around in. You may have to move around a lot during the escape room adventure.

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