Akron is a city with a lot to offer in terms of entertainment and activities. Some of the things that make Akron fun include its beautiful natural setting, with its many parks and green spaces, its thriving arts and culture scene, its vibrant food and drink culture, and its many outdoor recreational opportunities. There are also many popular attractions in Louisville, such as the Akron Zoo, Akron Art Museum, and Lock 3 Park. All of these things combine to make Louisville a fun and exciting place to visit or live.

Growing up, you always spent your spare quarters at the local Arcade Planet. But your sacred arcade is locking its doors for the final time at midnight tonight, so you only have an hour to get all of the prizes you’ve been longing for! Including the “top tier, ultra rare” prize! Apparently the owner of the arcade made it a really difficult prize to get, but that’s not going to stop you! Can you win your way to being a local legend? Or will that prize go unearned in this final hour? This is your last chance!

Loved the incredible immersion with the set design, theme, music, and props. The puzzles fit so well for 80s nostalgia. Satisfying pop culture references and puzzles that clicked. Momentum slowed down at the end when there was a lack of an obvious way forward, but the hint system was super cool when we got stuck! Overall, solid, memorable room.

The Great Escape Room

Arcade Challenge [prev. Retro Replay]

Escape room

You've been tasked by the city's Vice Lord, Jumbo Crowley, to search the gambling den / speakeasy of a local bootlegger. What secrets might it hold?

Escape Room Downtown

The Bootlegger's Lair

You’re the newest hires in what should’ve been a routine training shift. However, minutes after clocking in, the post office goes into lockdown. A call came in moments ago: a credible bomb threat aimed directly at this facility.

The postmaster has vanished, the police won’t arrive in time, and somewhere within the maze of packages, letters, and records, a device is waiting to detonate. You’ve got to search the building, follow the paper trail, and sift through the systems the post office once ran on. Truck route logs, PO box anomalies, undeliverable mail, employee notes—it’s all on the table. Somewhere in the details is the path to the bomb’s location.

Your goal for the day isn't to deliver mail but to deliver everyone out of the building alive. You have 60 minutes; for your sake, it better be enough.

Masterminds Escape Room and Game Library

Final Delivery

Your Nana was always a bit estranged from the family, but you tried your best to stay connected to her. I mean after all, she’s quite old, and she shouldn’t have to spend her days in solitude. You do really worry about her, but she insists that she’s fine in her mountain cabin by herself. It was always an hourly phone call that was your little bonding time, but nearly a month has passed since your last contact with her.

You decide it’s time to take a visit up to check on dear old Nana Hannah. It takes you all day to get directions and now that night has fallen, you only make out the cabin by the cracks that shine through her fencing from your headlights. You peak through a broken window pane to see red marks down at the end of the hall. Calling out, there is no answer.

Did someone break into the cabin? Is that slashes of blood on the wall? What happened to Nana Hannah? Experience the mystery in a Akron escape room and find out.

Mountain Top Murders

Step into the 1920s and join Bess Houdini in her final attempt to contact her late husband, Harry Houdini, through a thrilling 60-minute séance on the 10th anniversary of his passing.

Come join Harry & Bess as they transport you back to the 1920’s in a Akron escape room experience like no other.

Famed illusionist Harry Houdini passed away on October 31, 1926. Prior to his death, he and his beloved wife, Bess, had discussed her trying to contact him in the afterlife. If she was successful, Harry was to reveal the phrase “Rosabel, Believe”, a reference to their favorite musical tune.

On the anniversary of his death every year since his passing, Bess has performed a seance at The Knickerbocker hotel in hopes of contacting Houdini. Unfortunately, each year has been met with the same result – failure to contact Harry.

It is now October 31, 1936. Ten years since the death of Harry Houdini. Bess has decided that this will be her final attempt before she will give up on trying to contact Houdini forever. You have come to her aid in an attempt to help her succeed before she puts out the lights on Harry’s shrine for good. Will you succeed in helping Bess to contact her beloved husband one last time or will Houdini rest in silence forever?

You have 60 minutes to complete the seance and contact Harry Houdini.

The Haunted Hotel

Closing November 2 - Reopening for 2026. Hours, dates, and admission may vary — check official site for current details.

Last verified: 8/31/2026

The Haunted Schoolhouse offers you the rare opportunity to face your deepest fears… your darkest thoughts… and the twisted night terrors that haunt your dreams. Ms. Alvah, was never your typical school librarian. She wasn’t content to simply ‘tell’ stories of creepy castles or dark dungeons. She wanted her students to appreciate the books she held so dear… to actually ‘experience’ them, as it were.

Having discovered ancient texts long hidden within the library’s walls, she finally found the way to do just that. She learned spells that forced her students to literally enter, and become a part of, each and every terrifying tale. Word of these missing students got out, and as they were never found, the school was forced to close its doors.

Years passed, and as no one suspected Ms. Alvah, she returned to her beloved library and continued to work her spells. In secret and under the cover of night she invites YOU to enter the ancient books….walk between their dusty covers… traverse their brittle pages… and pray it is her books, and not you, that get ‘checked-out.’

Haunted Schoolhouse

Haunted house

Haunt

Reopening for 2026. Hours, dates, and admission may vary — check official site for current details.

Last verified: 8/31/2026

The Factory of Terror, located in Canton, Ohio, is one of the LARGEST INDOOR HAUNTED HOUSES IN THE WORLD, recognized by Guinness World Records three times for this achievement. This enormous haunt is more than a mile long and consists of five unique spine-chilling attractions; 1300 Lost Souls, Industrial Nightmare, Lafayette 13, Massacre on Mahoning, and The Abyss. To take advantage of every minute, talented actors and performers are scattered throughout the queue lines to entertain patrons as they anxiously await to enter each attraction.

Factory of Terror

Closing November 1 - Reopening for 2026. Hours, dates, and admission may vary — check official site for current details.

Last verified: 8/31/2026

As you journey along a one mile haunted hayride through the deep and dark woods of 58 acres in Medina county you cant even imagine what’s waiting for you inside these woods!

You then will enter Night Stalker’s Trail, a quarter-mile long haunted walking trail that takes you deep into the woods. With elaborate sets, scenes and displays.

You will then enter the Mortuary Haunted House, a funeral home for many years but the caretaker has other plans for you!

Forest of Screams is the most terrifying and exciting Halloween experience you will have this season!

Forest of Screams

Hayride

Haunted trail

Closing November 1 - Reopening for 2026. Hours, dates, and admission may vary — check official site for current details.

Last verified: 8/31/2026

In the Haunted Laboratory, meet the deranged Dr. Guggenheim, who for years has led a team of scientists in his mad pursuit of manipulating DNA and controlling genetics. “Nature has gone far too slow on its own. People are still so weak…. so pathetic. Only my genius and my virus can speed up the process of evolution,” he claims.

Working late one night, the Doctor was caught in an accidental explosion that not only burned most of his body and disfigured his face beyond recognition… it also released the virus, which has spread quickly and contaminates the air throughout the laboratory’s four floors. Even if you can escape before the monstrous Doctor finds you or his creatures tear you limb from limb… the virus will likely infect you… and you may begin to feel the change even after you’ve found the relative safety of home.…

Haunted Laboratory

Closing November 3 - Reopening for 2026. Hours, dates, and admission may vary — check official site for current details.

Last verified: 8/31/2026

We cannot control the psychopaths that now run The Asylum! Do you have what it takes? A pulsing, winding and chaotic labyrinth of wrong turns, dead ends and terrifying psychotic inmates roaming the abandoned mental institution that are waiting to tear your soul apart. Try and keep your head clear, this confusing and high energy maze is difficult to escape and not for the weak-minded!!

Stark County Fairgrounds

Insane Asylum

Dr. Heinlein had always been an enigmatic figure within the medical community. His genius was undeniable, his surgical skills unmatched, and his fascination with the human body unparalleled. However, behind the façade of his successful career was his true self: a man driven to continue his research at any cost.



A series of mysterious disappearances sprung up here in Barberton, and authorities grew baffled, unable to connect the dots and identify the perpetrator. It was only you, a group of amateur detectives, driven by either an insatiable curiosity or an unshakeable sense of justice, who managed to uncover the truth.



Unfortunately, your investigation had not gone unnoticed; now, you were prisoners faced with a horrifying choice: if you proved yourselves worthy by assisting his work, you would earn your freedom—and a chance to become his assistants. Failure, however, would mean befalling the gruesome fate of the victims before you.

Dollmaker

You and your team have adventured on a journey in search of a mysterious, abandoned submarine. Which the legend says, comes to the same spot of the water once a year. They say the captain, which was mad, took steam punk inventions and incorporated them into the mysterious submarine. They say the submarine didn’t use any fuel, and moved like a living creature. In the captains last records there was something about the submarine having a heartbeat, and that begun to beat slower and slower.

You and your team have 60 minutes to solve all the mysteries surrounding the sunken submarine.

Get into the captains quarters take control and navigate the submarine back to port. Or else you too, will be doomed to the abyss, and be part of the mystery.

Escape Medina

Submarine - The Unknown Abyss

While exploring your grandmother’s dusty attic, you and your friends stumbled upon an old, mysterious board game. With a careless roll of the dice, the ground trembled—and in the blink of an eye, you were transported into the game itself! Now, the entire jungle wants to eat you alive!

You have 60 minutes to escape the game before you’re trapped in the jungle forever!

Cool Jumanji vibe.  Had some unique puzzles we had not seen before.  Really enjoyed the room.  Venue is clean and offers a bar,  axe throwing and an arcade.  Looking forward to visiting their next adventure.

Jungle Jeopardy

Step aboard the Clockwork Express, a dazzling steampunk train powered by gears, steam, and a hint of magic. As the train barrels through the mountains, disaster strikes—an unknown saboteur has disabled the train’s controls! Your group will have to solve cryptic puzzles hidden within brass gears and mechanical contraptions and restore control to the runaway engine before the train goes barreling off the tracks.

Clockwork Express

Detective Swope went missing and disappeared at the hands of, well, the Black Hand. They’ve taken over his office in the Canton Flower Shop building and have been running operations there for several years. Can you and your team follow the clues, work the puzzles left behind to help Chief Wise save the day? You have just 45 minutes to do so.

Things to Do in Akron: Escape Rooms, Haunted Houses and More

Top escape rooms in Akron

Arcade Challenge [prev. Retro Replay]

The Bootlegger's Lair

Final Delivery

Mountain Top Murders

The Haunted Hotel

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Haunted Schoolhouse

Factory of Terror

Forest of Screams

Haunted Laboratory

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