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Within moments of entering Madame Black's notorious freak show, bags are thrown over your head as you are dragged away... Dazed and disorientated, you wake up in a cage, desinated to be the latest of Madame Black's victims. Don't waste a second, you need to escape before Madame Black begins the horrrific process of turning you into freaks for her show...
All ratings (173)
Very positive
47 escape rooms
I am not usually one for screaming but this room had me squealing and hiding in a corner. Very unique theme. Zac was top tier with the scares!
Yes
Medium
High tech
Scary
15
No
Yes
Very
237 escape rooms
Having played ‘The Abandoned Carnival’ twice previously over the last few years to see the changes, it felt like we had stepped onto the flip side of the coin in Padlock’d’s horror game ‘The Freakshow’. The ensuing experience was a fun escape room with a few unique bells and whistles that capture the theme of a freakshow circus experience. The live actor was tasteful in how they delivered jump scares, it would be cool to see a puzzle that requires the players to interact with the clown, given they were in and out of the rooms a few times. Only one prop malfunctioned and the GM was quick to spot and fix the issue. Thanks Annika!
Limited
Park at Chevron Renaissance for 2hrs free parking!
N
9 escape rooms
This was my fifth escape room I ever did, but my friends first. She had an amazing experience and doesn’t stop talking about it. She always mentions how well the room was decorated and how much she loved having the live actor. So definitely a 10/10 experience for us both.
Staff are always so friendly and welcoming, very understanding as well
No
Medium
Mechanical
4
I did 2 players but I think 3-4 would be fun
Spooky
12
No
Yes
Our actor was so good, he played the role perfectly.
Somewhat
Just the running back and fourth trying to remember sequences of the codes but otherwise no
Only the crawl space that I believe would be hard for wheelchair users. Otherwise I would say pretty accessible
Yes
Medium
228 escape rooms
It’s been a while since I played a room that really leaned into the “live actor included” side of things (outside of a GM just banging on a wall or two), but The Freakshow used this element in such a exciting and horrifying way. The room itself isn’t anything spectacular in terms of puzzles but the anticipation of someone popping out at any given moment made everything infinitely more fun. From certain solves to the actual clue system itself, that godforsaken clown was used really well here. Not a difficult room by any stretch but we went for the scares and weren’t disappointed. 🤡
Yes
Medium
Mechanical
3
Scary
16
No
Yes
Live actor very prevalent, makes multiple appearances.
Somewhat
Crawling, sitting and crouching required for traversal.
Yes
Limited
In the heart of Surfers Paradise, very limited parking on a busy Cavil Ave.
30 escape rooms
It was a nice room, but very easy. I think there were a lot of opportunities for live actors to jump out at you, but likely as we did it in the middle of the day on a Tuesday we didn't get much actor action. I was also looking out warily for jump-scares, so that might have contributed to a lack of scariness (despite that, I do wish it had been slightly more frightening). Our single encounter with the actor occurred when we got stuck on a specific puzzle, so they came into the room to try their best to show us what we needed to do next wordlessly - but as we were confused it took him a couple minutes of motioning for us to figure out what was going on, so it wasn't very scary in the end... I felt bad...
No
Easy
High tech
Spooky
No
Yes
Somewhat
There is a small space that you must crawl through at one point in the room, so be aware. There is also a puzzle based on colour present.
Yes
c
23 escape rooms
Really cool room! We had a live actor who did such a good job and gave us a couple jump scares!! Definitely scary especially cause the team is split up at points and the anticipation of the live actor jumping out at you!
5
Just because of how you start off it might be a bit cramped if there were more than this
50 escape rooms
Talk about scary! Every creaking door (even though it was us half time trying to find clues) had us on our toes. A few jump scares had us on edge as well. Only bad part of the room was the torches where not that bright which made a few puzzles hard to work out but overall really fun and scary room
Very well done and creepy
Atmosphere was amazing
Staff are always welcoming here
Yes
73 escape rooms
Very cool and creepy room ;) quite scary, but also some of the jumpscares predictable and thus less scary if you want to ;) but overall a very nice room, I liked the decoration and puzzles :) just a bit short I would say, we did breeze through it and didn‘t even use half the time even though we didn‘t even try to be fast but went around rather cautious and slow🙈
50 escape rooms
Done this game a while ago but it still one of my favourites, definitely a great horror game
15 escape rooms
i really enjoyed this room with friends. i think it was really good to have live actors to make it very immersive
Yes
Hard
💩👖
No
Yes
Very
Yes
Medium
