The 19 best escape rooms in Brooklyn & Queens (2026)

The de Lille family owned the Bird Apothecary for generations. Well-known for their magic and crafting talents, visitors came from afar to seek advice and magical remedies for all ailments. The apothecary was named after the family’s cherished bird, which they had miraculously kept alive for generations using their magic. In fact, the entire village thrived on the apothecary’s success and reputation—until the bird tragically passed away. Johann de Lille, the family’s youngest descendant and a brilliant alchemist, had been working on an elixir of rebirth—but he failed to finish it in time to save the bird. The de Lille family has since moved on, but it appears some magic still lingers in the abandoned pharmacy. Could this lingering magic be harnessed one final time? Maybe all hope is not yet lost.

“This was a beautiful experience. I absolutely loved how the gameplay and set interacted, especially with how the designers blended analog and tech perfectly. It’s honestly almost comparable to The Alchemist in the way it manages such a beautiful way of capturing the dual nature of mechanical and magical. It’s a challenging game, and the space is small, but if you have a cooperative team or if you can solve well this will be doable. MyssTic is absolutely a company that you must visit, and The Bird is their finest experience.”

TheEnigmaCode

687 escape rooms

YOUR MISSION: Keeping the spirits happy only works if you manage to turn on the light. ..Good luck!

YOUR MISSION: Infiltrate the area, locate the source of the mysterious incidents and bring back hard evidence.

“I’ve played a few stranger things themed rooms, but none of them blended the quality of gameplay and story on display in Montauk Project. It played well, too - the flow was traditional but every puzzle was clever and tactile. When tasks were contributing to our quest, however, they were especially engaging, coupled with a finale that was a true wow moment. If you’re in the area, stop by and play Montauk Project - especially if you’re a stranger things fan. Nothing else is quite as good at capturing the feeling of the show.”

TheEnigmaCode

687 escape rooms

Pass Your Class Light-hearted, nostalgic, and playful, Playground is a favorite of both first-timers and enthusiasts. Your game will start in a classroom where you’ll have to finish all of your assignments before the end of the day, or you can forget about summer break. And these assignments are unlike anything you actually encountered in school. Playground was designed for up to 12 players and is an epic team building experience.

Destroy the black hole! Your humble spaceship is blindsided by a ferocious and hungry black hole. If it’s not stopped within the hour, the entire solar system will be consumed! Your only hope is a nearby space station harboring antimatter to blow the black hole (and everything around it) to smithereens! Feed the antimatter to the black hole to end its rampage and save the solar system!

“Incredibly fun and high tech room. You can definitely feel the time and money that went into the production value of this from The Escape Game co. The story, puzzle themeing, interactive objects, and overall pacing was fantastic! There are some high tech puzzles that require shouting and communication with your teammates that only adds to the fun and chaos of the room. Highly recommend!”

stevenyee

27 escape rooms

Time travel just became a reality in this digitally-interactive escape room adventure. As part of the Time Crisis Management team, you’re tasked with addressing life-threatening issues, no matter what decade they happen in. You can easily hop between centuries, from the Jurassic to Medieval and everything in between, with just one ticket swipe on Timeliner, the time-traveling train. Now, the fate of reality is in your hands — it’s up to you to restore the past and save the future. And you’ll have to hurry! All it takes is one mistake in the past for the entire future to fall apart…

Find the Inheritance The 1800s California gold rush was a time when just about anyone could get lucky with a fortune. No one knew this better than your recently deceased relative, Clyde Hamilton. Though he’s since passed, the prospector left behind quite a pretty penny in gold. As his surviving next of kin, he’s offered you a chance to claim the gold fortune as an inheritance for yourself…if you can find it! You’ve only got 60 minutes to get into Clyde’s cabin and take the gold stash before news of the fortune reaches other greedy ears in town…

Uncover the Lab's Secrets Are you brave enough to dive into the depths of the ocean to investigate an abandoned laboratory? Well, you’ll have to be in this escape room! The brilliant researcher, Dr. Humphreys, has gone missing and there have been rumors of mysterious experiments since his disappearance. It’s up to you to navigate your submarine to the lab, decipher Humphreys’ research, and discover what he’s been hiding deep in the ocean. Just be careful…you’re not alone in these waters…

“This room had less enthusiastic ratings from friends who have done it before, but my low expectations were heavily exceeded. I liked the room because I am a science teacher, and I felt like I had many great "solves" in this room. This room probably has my favorite puzzles of the franchise so far. I was trying to figure out how to put the differences in words, and the best I can come up with is that it's more based on pattern observation than object manipulation. One of the top things that stood out about this room was that my friend and I could work concurrently on tasks, and we didn't get bottlenecked. The ending can be stressful with 2 people, but we made it work!”

jaelyn7

61 escape rooms

Complete Your Daring Prison Escape Many consider Prison Break our most difficult escape room. Players are split into two different prison cells and must work together to get out of a 1950s style prison. A successful escape will include a sneaky trip to the warden’s office. An unsuccessful escape will land you in prison forever. Yes, those are real prison toilets….what can we say? We are obsessed with creating realistic environments.

Hack Attack (Room 1 of 5) A multi-screen communication game where the players must pass complex information and instructions across computer terminals around the rooms. Lazer Maze (Room 2 of 5) A hi-tech evasion game to get across as many laser patterns as possible in 10 minutes. Players must watch out, since patterns change every level, and even begin to move! Echo Chamber (Room 3 of 5) A listening game to recreate fun sound patterns using RFID readers distributed around the rooms. Floor Grid (Room 4 of 5) A movement game where players tracked by motion sensors must stand on assigned symbols on a grid while dodging obstacles like fireballs. Cyberbot (Room 5 of 5) Paint Bomb Mission room game, players must drive a virtual bomb robot through a complex maze to capture the 10-digit code to deactivate the Paint Bomb.

Time is running out at RYCO’s Island, a prison surrounded by water along the East River of New York. Tomorrow you will be executed after being wrongly convicted of murder in the first-degree. For some time now, you have been planning an escape of massive proportions. Many have tried to escape RYCO’s Island but none have succeeded. Learning from their mistakes, you have crafted the perfect escape plan or so you think. You have just been given your last supper. You have exactly one hour to “eat” before the warden returns. Use your time wisely.

On the evening of April 15th, 1912 you and your team of mechanics are in the engine room of the Titanic, marveling at the engines powering the largest ship of its time. All of a sudden, an earth raddling thud shakes the entire room, followed by the disarray of sounds from various mechanical failures. Water has begun spurting into the engine room and is filling up fast. The Titanic has hit an iceberg! Work with you team of mechanics to keep the ship afloat for as long as possible. The captain needs an hour to load all the available lifeboats to save as many people as possible! Save the passengers, and then save yourselves!

“Very elaborate, high-tech set. Sticks to the theme well. Puzzles make sense in the context of the story. Some neat physical elements to the set. I’m surprised this company isn’t more popular — it’s definitely worth a visit if you’re in the nyc area 5/5”

oddball

183 escape rooms

Your parents have finally entrusted you to babysit your younger sister, Olivia. You do a fantastic job, and send Olivia to bed early. Your parents give you a call to tell you that they will be leaving the restaurant soon, and that they will be home in one hour. As you hang up, you hear Olivia scream MONSTER at the top of her lungs. You burst through the door to find Olivia in tears saying that a monster has taken her favorite toy. She won’t stop crying and threatens to tell your parents that you did a terrible job. Where could it be? You can’t find it anywhere, and she never left the room. Your parents are going to kill you if Olivia is still awake when they get home! Find her favorite toy before they return or risk losing your parents trust for good!

“Ryco knows how to make a room! The game play was very linear, I just think that it requires support because there’s just a lot of tasks to do some of which are time-consuming and physically necessary as opposed to mentally challenging. That design was beautiful and everything in the room is useful. There’s a point where you need to get back into the bed that the entry room is set into but you also previously stepped with your feet on so I didn’t love that but oh my goodness was the room cool. There is a slight creepiness in two of the rooms but no jump scares. Behind some of the doors you have a clown in a clown car, dolls on a shelf, and teddy bears plastered on the walls.”

lizyakusheva

51 escape rooms

New York State has hired you and your demolition team to destroy the last standing building in the Kings Park Psychiatric Center. It is the famous building 93, that was run by world-renowned psychiatrist Dr. Sheehan, who mysteriously disappeared over a decade ago. Your crew has set the charges on an hour long timer, and you have to do one last sweep of the building before it can be knocked down. You clamor in to the elevator to check the final floor (Dr. Sheehan's old office). On your way up, much to your surprise, you find that you are not alone... ​Expose what's been going on in the "abandoned" asylum, and escape before your team's charges go off!

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 its 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?

Bubba and his gang are collectors of some very, VERY valuable items. They’re hidden in his pawn shop and y’all’re gonna swipe the loot from his mob. If y’all’re after that ‘big score,’ that ‘retirement job’…then this escape room in Queens is it. If your ragtag group of thieves can make your way through Bubba’s shop, y’all’ll be able to grab yourself some items that’ll be enough to retire six-times-over. Be careful though ’cause Bubba don’t take too kindly to strangers poking around where they don’t belong. Get in, and get out, while all y’all still can…if you ain’t careful, y’all’ll end up in cement shoes.

Many dark sides of the world are unknown to ordinary people, such as this clinic hidden underground in the city. Though long forgotten, it has been transformed into a death factory where organs are harvested and sold—a hub for human organ trafficking, a place where countless people died tragically. You and your teammates will play a group of students who graduated from a third-rate medical university and came here because they couldn't find a job. Today is your first day at work, but it has become the last day of your life. Horror is coming. Who can escape here alive?

“My first game in NY! Super surprised that Soul Escape does not have more attention and reviews on the platform because this game was amazing! Story was clean and intriguing, actors were incredible and puzzles were engaging and challenging! The scare factor of this room is pretty high given that there are live actors and a low light level throughout the experience. This is also a place where if an actor “catches you” you are out of the game, so do be ready to run when the time comes…and it will. Will have to make another trip out here whenever I am back in town!”

Double07

156 escape rooms

Hiring: Detectives in Greenwich Village to bring a girl home. No experience necessary but nerve, brain, and heart required. A comedic walking tour adventure taking you through the streets of Greenwich Village.

You’re about to inherit a vast historic estate—if you can clear your name of murder. You are Robert Montgomerie, the only remaining direct heir to the Kildermorie Estate and the Montgomerie family fortune. You’re attending a family gathering hosted by your Grandfather, Hugh ‘Monty’ Montgomerie, the 9th Earl of Kildermorie, to celebrate the dawn of the new Millennium. As the guests raise a toast, a scream fills the air…and your Grandfather is found dead in the library. It looks like MURDER, and as the direct heir, all fingers are now pointed at you! Will hidden clues reveal distant family secrets? With the police on their way, can you gather enough evidence and piece the story together to provide your innocence? And the biggest challenge of all: Is it even remotely possible to solve the mystery before the clock strikes 12?