The 12 best escape rooms in Singapore for company and team groups

Bugis (Bugis Village) · Department outings of up to 70 that want to pick rooms by theme and scare level

1. Xcape Singapore

Up to 70 per time slot across several rooms; off-site games for 10 to 500+ · 60 or 75 minutes per game · Indoor, at Bugis Village or at your venue

Xcape Singapore is a Bugis Village escape room venue with 9 games across 40 chambers that takes company groups of up to 70 people per time slot, from $29.90 per person off-peak. Peak rates (weekdays after 6pm, weekends and public holidays) are $35.90, and two rooms, Legacy of Arthur and The Purge Day, are $39.90 off-peak and $45.90 at peak. Rooms take 3 to 7 or 3 to 8 players (Unseen takes 2 to 6), games run 60 or 75 minutes, and four games have live actors. For bigger numbers it runs custom escape games at your office or venue for 10 to 500 or more, and sells a corporate membership card good for 12 games a year. It opened in 2013, and teams it has hosted include Microsoft, DBS, OCBC, Grab, GovTech and the Singapore Police Force.

Has worked with Microsoft, Apple, Grab, DBS

Dhoby Ghaut (GR.iD, Selegie Road) · Teams of 10 to 50 who want the rooms to themselves and a game master on hand

2. LOST SG

Up to 50 per corporate session across five rooms · 60 minutes, with an optional debrief · Indoor

LOST SG is an escape room venue at GR.iD on Selegie Road with five private 60-minute rooms that run at the same time, taking corporate groups of up to 50 per session, with rooms from $23.90 per person. Each corporate booking includes exclusive use of the rooms, a dedicated game master, a pre-session briefing and an end-of-game recap of how each team did, and a structured debrief can be added. The five rooms are Alcatraz, Aokigahara (horror), Castiglione, Exodus and Mausoleum. Groups of 10 to 20 should book about 2 weeks ahead and groups of 30 or more 4 weeks ahead, and quotes come back within one business day. Its corporate clients include DBS, OCBC, Singapore Airlines, Grab, Shopee, Google, CPF Board and Deloitte.

Has worked with DBS Bank, OCBC, Citibank, Standard Chartered

Esplanade (Marina Square) · Mixed groups who want a half-day rotation of escape rooms, VR and Lava Floor in one place

3. Lockdown Escape

2 to 8 per escape room and 2 to 4 per VR game; bigger groups rotate across rooms, VR and Lava Floor · 60 minutes per game; 3 to 4 hours for a mixed half-day · Indoor

Lockdown Escape is a Marina Square venue with three escape rooms, three VR escape games and two Lava Floor arenas, and it splits company groups across all of them so everyone plays at once, from $24 per person on weekdays. Escape games are $30 on weekends and public holidays, run 60 minutes and take 2 to 8 players per room. VR games take 2 to 4, and Lava Floor games are from $13 a person and last up to 25 minutes. A game master briefs each group and keeps the rotation on time, and a mixed half-day across two or three formats usually takes 3 to 4 hours. Sessions starting before 12 noon carry a surcharge, and a structured debrief is booked separately as a gamification workshop.

Tai Seng (Playfair Road) · Companies that want one vendor to cover the game, the debrief and the rest of the event

4. Escape Room Singapore (EscapeRoom.sg)

8 to 50 at the Tai Seng venue; Funtopia 10 to 1,000 · 1 hour (Escape Puzzles), 1.5 hours (Funtopia), 2 to 2.5 hours (outdoor) · Indoor, outdoor, at your venue or online

Escape Room Singapore runs escape games for companies at its Playfair Road venue in Tai Seng, at your office or hotel, outdoors and online, from $28 per person before GST for its indoor Escape Puzzles game (8 players minimum). Its Funtopia large-group format takes 10 to 1,000 players at $30 to $38 per person depending on group size, outdoor escape trails around Chinatown, HarbourFront, Sentosa, Marina Bay and the Singapore River start from $30, and Virtual Escape is from $20. There are three package levels: the game alone; a team building package that adds team allocation, a briefing, a facilitated debrief and results; and a complete event that adds the venue, catering, bus transport, a photographer and prizes. The Tai Seng venue takes up to 50 at once, and government teams can order through GeBIZ or Vendors@Gov. Book at least 5 working days ahead, and several weeks ahead for year-end and large groups.

Somerset (The Centrepoint, Orchard Road) · Groups of 20 to 78 who want everyone in a room at the same time near Somerset MRT

5. Trapped Escape Room

10 to 12 per room, up to 78 at once; up to 234 with add-on games; offsite 30 to 300 · 75 minutes per room; offsite games 60, 75 or 90 minutes · Indoor, at The Centrepoint or at your venue

Trapped Escape Room is an Orchard Road venue at The Centrepoint with seven 75-minute rooms of 10 to 12 players each, taking up to 78 players at once for corporate team building, at a usual rate of $38.90 per person. Rooms include The Great Escape (prison), The Alchemist's Cabinet (non-horror) and The Cursed Video Tape, which has a live actor. Corporate room sessions include a game briefing and a group photo after the game, and adding its Mystery Hunt and Culinary Chaos games lets up to 234 people play at the same time. It also runs offsite escape games at your premises for 30 to 300 people, in 60, 75 or 90-minute formats, and has hosted more than 1,600 corporate and group sessions. Payment is on site by NETS, cash, card or GrabPay. Its clients include PSA, Great Eastern, Carlsberg, Microsoft, DBS, Marina Bay Sands, Shell and Singtel.

Has worked with PSA, Great Eastern, Carlsberg, Microsoft

Large groups that want an escape game at a museum or attraction, or at their own venue

6. The Escape Artist

10 to 1,000, depending on the game · At museums, attractions or your venue

The Escape Artist runs offsite escape games for company groups of 10 to 1,000 at museums, attractions and your own venue, priced as a fixed game fee plus $20 per person, with the Standard (self-guided) fee from $300 and the Immersive fee, with costumed facilitators, at $1,100. Large self-guided groups work out from about $23 per person, and venue admission is extra. Games are set at places like the Asian Civilisations Museum, Battlebox at Fort Canning, Haw Par Villa, River Wonders and Fort Siloso, or any indoor venue you pick, and each game has its own cap, from 120 to 1,000 players. Each booking comes with a starter kit of props, a host and the MazeFox game, played in a phone browser. It is not GST-registered, and it replies to proposal requests within one business day.

Jurong East (Science Centre Road) · Small teams of up to 8 that want a puzzle room with a science theme

7. Escape at Science Centre

Up to 8 per room · 1 hour · Indoor

Escape at Science Centre is a set of three STEM-themed escape rooms in the Science Centre Singapore annexe in Jurong East, for teams of up to 8, at $25 per person on weekdays and $30 on weekends and public holidays for Singapore residents and PRs ($35 and $40 for standard admission). Each session is one hour. The rooms are Museum of Humankind, Shangri-La and Dr. X (18 and above), and Shangri-La is the room open for booking now. A team of fewer than 8 that wants the room to itself books all eight slots, and corporate team building and private buyouts go through the Science Centre sales team.

Chinatown (Lucky Chinatown) · Teams of up to 22 who want a VR game a minute from the MRT

8. Virtual Room Singapore

Teams of 2 to 4, up to 22 players at once · 40 to 50 minutes of play, about 1 hour in all · Indoor

Virtual Room Singapore is a VR escape room in the basement of Lucky Chinatown, a minute from Chinatown MRT, where teams of 2 to 4 each play in their own room, up to 22 players at once, from $44 off-peak with online booking. Off-peak is Monday to Thursday, 10am to 5pm, the peak rate is $49 every day from 5pm to 10pm and on public holidays, and walk-in, phone or email bookings are $5 more. Games run 40 to 50 minutes and take about an hour in all, and the studio writes its own VR adventures. Corporate and social events are booked by phone.

Alexandra Road · Managers who want the game to lead into a facilitated talk about how the team works

9. Teamwork Unlocked

4 to 80, depending on the programme · Up to 2 hours, or a 3 to 4-hour half-day · Indoor, at its studio or your office

Teamwork Unlocked is an Alexandra Road studio that runs escape room-based team development and leadership programmes for groups of 4 to 80, each with a facilitated debrief that ties the game back to how the team works. Its flagship, Submerged, is a 3 to 4-hour half-day for 4 to 10 people at its venue. Eliminated and Racing for Results run up to 2 hours for 4 to 80, and Board Game Bonding runs 1 to 3 hours for 4 to 40 with a facilitator. Programmes come with Nine Key Profiles insights and development suggestions for each person, plus a session report for HR and team leads, and team bonding sessions can also run at your office. Its clients include Pepperl+Fuchs, Kennedys and RICOH.

Has worked with Pepperl+Fuchs, Kennedys, RICOH

Upper Jurong (Singapore Discovery Centre) · West-side teams that want a military storyline with a fixed ticket price

10. Black Lake Facility

1 hour 15 minutes · Indoor

Black Lake Facility is a military-themed escape room at the Singapore Discovery Centre on Upper Jurong Road, run by Defence Collective Singapore for corporate team-building groups and friends, with tickets at $30 per adult and $24 per child. Sessions last 1 hour 15 minutes, and teams crack codes to find out what happened to a missing science team. It has four rooms: The Armoury, The Research Lab, The Basement Room and The Medical Room. Under-12s should come with an adult, and the upper levels are reached by stairs only. Group bookings go through the Discovery Centre's contact email.

Dhoby Ghaut (Singapore Shopping Centre) · Teams who want puzzle rooms with no scares, near Dhoby Ghaut and Plaza Singapura

11. Captivate Escape Rooms

Indoor

Captivate Escape Rooms is an eight-room venue at #06-28 Singapore Shopping Centre, by Dhoby Ghaut MRT Exit B, with no horror themes, jump scares or strobe lights, for company teams, families and friends. It has run more than 1,500 corporate and education events. Some rooms have hidden areas to find, and game masters give hints during the game. Corporate groups enquire through its team building form and can ask for meeting rooms alongside the games.

West Coast (ORTO) · Teams who want a long 90-minute room and physical games in the same visit

12. INMERS Play

4 to 8 per escape room · 90 minutes per escape room · Indoor

INMERS Play is an escape room and game venue at ORTO on West Coast Highway with two 90-minute escape rooms, Break Through the Soil and The Medium, each for 4 to 8 players with several live characters in the game. The same venue has Floor is Lava, HitPoint, GOAT and LINE LINE physical games, and there are more Floor is Lava arenas at City Square Mall, Downtown East and the Singapore Discovery Centre. It runs team building for small and large corporate groups, indoors or outdoors, booked through its enquiry form.