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Finalist (2025)

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Finalist (2023)

Finalist (2022)

Finalist (2021)

Silver - Best Game (2021)

Finalist (2020)

SEE YOU ON THE PLAYGROUND
Summer is here! Well, almost… If you and your friends are going to leave for summer vacation, you’ll need your final report card. Here’s the problem, you haven’t finished your work and these assignments are unlike anything you’ve encountered in a classroom before. Luckily, you’ve got a great squad and everyone brings something different to the table. Band together to ace the ultimate group project. Pass or fail, you’re in this together!

First time playing games with this chain. They blew me away with the level of detail in their rooms! Everything was in excellent condition and the stories and puzzles were just plain fun! Lots of surprises in the rooms we did, too!

The Escape Game

Playground

Escape room

Nominee (2025)

Nominee (2024)

Nominee (2023)

Nominee (2022)

Nominee (2019)

Most Innovative Escape Room (2019)

The DeLaporte Family coffers have run dry and the city is threatening to put the house up for a tax sale. You are called to investigate the dark and cramped wine cellar, as it was rumored that Silver Dollar Sam and his band of rum runners once used it as a storehouse. Can you find enough loot to help save the DeLaporte home, or will you be stuck forever by one of the many booby traps?

I enjoyed this! Definitely took a learning curve to gain confidence walking around in the dark, but the puzzles were clever for the pitch black situation. The ending was a little anti-climatic, but overall super fun!

Escape My Room

Smugglers Den

Finalist (2019)

You and your fellow field agents were sent to investigate the area’s local market. It’s late, it’s quiet… but something’s not quite right. Just as you are about to wrap up your inspection, you encounter a twist you never expected. Should you have seen this coming?



Special Ops: Mysterious Market

A MILLION WAYS IN, ONE WAY OUT
The year is 1955. 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? Some claim he escaped. Others 
swear he was murdered by the infamously cruel warden. But no one actually knows… 
can you escape before you suffer the same fate?

Prison Break

Nominee (2021)

Travel back in time to the scene of a murder in the music parlor of the DeLaporte Mansion. Join forces with the police and grieving DeLaporte family members as they comb the crime scene for evidence. Can the two groups cooperate long enough to solve this 60-year-old crime, or will the answers be lost forever?

This game is 3 parts - with part 1 being the main objective with 2&3 as add ons, as time permits.

With a team of 2, we escaped part 1 (the murderer) in 32:11. We were able to do parts 2&3 (the why & the how) in another 10 minutes and 17.5 minutes, respectively. It was SO much fun! Great theme, great puzzles, lots of fun surprises, and adds to the overall theme of the mansion.

The best room in New Orleans!

Jazz Parlor

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

Last verified: 8/31/2026

We have transformed our haunted house into a Christmas wonderland, although it won’t be all glitter and snowflakes. You better watch out. You better not cry. Horrifying Christmas characters will haunt all those who enter. Forget those old, boring traditions. Come celebrate the holiday like never before and trade your Christmas cheers for Christmas fears.

New Orleans Nightmare

Krampus: The Fright before Christmas

Haunted house

Haunt

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

Last verified: 8/31/2026

In the outskirts of town, unsettling rumors abound about a gruesome enterprise that haunts the locals. Sanguis Rex, with a morbid fixation on the deceased, is involved in the sinister trade of selling harvested blood from corpses to the Blood Queen and her ominous progeny. The Queen’s insatiable thirst for fresh blood escalates, putting Sanguis Rex in a dilemma of epic proportions. He must decide whether to defy her demands and risk becoming her sacrifice or comply by delivering fresh victims to satisfy her needs. This choice holds grave consequences, not only for Sanguis Rex’s fate but also for the entire operation he oversees. The weight of his decision hangs heavy in the air, knowing that whatever he chooses will shape the destiny of everyone involved.

Midnight Mortuary: Blood Ritual

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

Last verified: 8/31/2026

In a post-apocalyptic world, You are faced with a devastating virus that has afflicted humanity, causing menacing mutations to roam free. The Hades Corporation, responsible for both the virus and its antidote, takes action to eliminate these mutants and capture the Alpha Infected. Driven by a relentless determination, You set out on a mission to uncover the truth and expose the Hades Corporation’s culpability. In a world where survival depends on revealing the truth, the pressing question remains: who will believe it and does it really matter?

The Deadlands

Closing October 31 - Reopening for 2026. Hours, dates, and admission may vary — check official site for current details.

Last verified: 8/31/2026

Introducing the LEGEND of The Mortuary 2025
CHAPTER 19
Every Evil Has A Beginning!
Long before the monsters.
Before the witches danced under the stars, before wolves howled at the cursed moons, before the dead refused to stay dead…

There was a woman.
A daughter of Eden.
Claimed by the Serpent.
Forgotten by Heaven.

And this is HER Story…

The QUEEN of the NIGHT!

“ORIGINS OF EVIL”

Before Evil Had a Name, It had a Beginning!

Long before the monsters. Before the witches danced under the stars, before wolves howled at the cursed moons, before the dead refused to stay dead…

There was a woman.
A daughter of Eden.
Claimed by the Serpent.
Forgotten by Heaven.

She was born from the same clay as Eve but the clay was tainted by the murdered blood of Abel. Where Eve chose shame, this daughter chose hate. As paradise burned behind her, she wandered the wilderness with eyes like coals and a voice that made even angels weep. She walked east through the ancient world, across desert sands, past Nimrod’s ruined Tower, through forgotten empires ruined by flood, until, finally, she found her throne at the birthplace of modern myth itself — Egypt.

There, she did not bow to gods. Instead, she made them. 

She called herself Nephthys—but the world would know her as The Queen of Night.

She drank the venom from the mouth of the Serpent and became immortal. She seduced kings, devoured priests, and corrupted prophets.

And then she created…Not life…But life’s antithesis…Unlife.

She was The First.

From her bite, she turned her slaves into gods, immortal beings of hatred and flesh and nightmare. The Egyptians would mistakenly worship them as divine— Anubis, Bastet, Horus, Sobek—but they were monsters, children forged in their Queen’s image. The first vampires, jackal-headed and bloodthirsty, sat upon thrones of bone at the dawn of civilization.

They didn’t guide humanity… they fed upon it.

So was the origins of her evil…

The Mortuary

Origins of Evil

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

Last verified: 8/31/2026

An immersive horror experience from the creators of Escape My Room. 

Part haunted house: Gasp-worthy jump scares and macabre vignettes await around every corner

Part immersive theater: Live actors slip between friend and foe, offering clues or leading you astray

Part escape room: Solve cryptic riddles and explore secret passages

Delaporte Manor

Best Puzzle Game (2019)

Most Creative (2018)

You are the game museum that is well known for the game exhibits that is holds! Can you play through the millennia of game history in an hour or will you be left?

Board game and video game theme was on point. Game lovers this is for you. There were some very clever uses of medium that’s all I’m going say. Loved this one. Puzzles weren’t too hard but there were plenty to keep you busy. Can divide and conquer and there’s something for everyone so bring a group

Clue Carré

The Game Museum

You are the French quarter’s house of curiosities! You are locked and you do not know what is going on in the innocent little shop in here! Can you figure it out?

My husband and I had a great time! We did board the struggle bus a few times because we didn’t do the obvious thing (facepalm). The room was a bit dim for our not-so-great eyesight, but we managed. We’ll definitely come back and play another room with Clue Carré the next time we visit NOLA.

French Quarter House Of Curiosities

Santa’s lost his magical hat and now it’s up to you, the friendly residents of Halloween City, to find it! Can you overcome the puzzles of the spooky graveyard in time to save Christmas? Come join in the holiday fun in this family-friendly adventure!

GREAT BEGINNER ROOM

Pros:
- Super cute and festive set
- Charming and accessible, great for families and people who have done <5 escape rooms
- Perfectly nonlinear enough

Cons:
- Answers to puzzles can be too easily guessed
- No spectacular aspects (moving parts in room, ambiance, live actor)

8/10 (solid, recommendable but not a must play)

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Prison Break

Jazz Parlor

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Origins of Evil

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