Boston is a city that’s big in terms of the quality and number of escape rooms available. There are several good escape rooms downtown, you don’t need to travel too far to check them out. Prices vary, partly based on the size of your group, but tickets are around $38-50 per person. Most places give you 60 minutes to escape or complete the mission. This list of the best escape rooms is based on our own subjective opinion.
10 Best Escape Rooms in Boston
- Insane Asylum – Paniq Escape Room
- Atlantis – Paniq Escape Room
- Cartel – Paniq Escape Room
- The Red Wire – Paniq Escape Room
- The Body Shop – Red Fox
- Storyteller’s Secret – Boxaroo
- U-boat – Red Fox
- Conundrum Museum – Boxaroo
- Heist – Red Fox
- Hustler – Trapology
Escape Room reviews
#1. Insane Asylum – Paniq Escape Room
Insane Asylum is the best scary escape room in Boston. Regarding its difficulty, it can be considered a hard escape room. We begin in a bright, bloody room. Truly only the best can solve this first room without help. The rest of the rooms are dark and scary, the puzzles in them are interconnected, and they can provide an entertaining experience to multiple people.
Price: $38 – $48 per person
Players: 2-7
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#2. Atlantis – Paniq Escape Room
One of the most modern escape rooms I’ve ever been to. There are no keys, locks, or padlocks in the room. Everything is automatic and interactive. We begin in a mine, from where we can get to the lost city of Atlantis. The room is truly spectacular, with an amazing atmosphere that will charm you immediately. The puzzles in the room are very diverse, each one can be solved in a different way; they might present a challenge to larger groups.
Price: $38 – $48 per person
Players: 2-7
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#3. Cartel – Paniq Escape Room
Due to its theme, this is an escape room for adults. This room puts you in the shoes of a detective. You have to collect all the clues that lead to the killer. You’ll have to think a lot and need your problem-solving skills to reach the second room, where you might feel like as if you were in Breaking Bad. This detective escape room is mostly suited for smaller groups.
Price: $38 – $48 per person
Players: 2-7
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#4. The Red Wire – Paniq Escape Room
Family friendly escape room, where players can feel like British spies. You’ll quickly discover that the fate of the world is in your hands, and you have to save it in 60 minutes. It’s always good to have kids with us, who help solving the puzzles more relatable to them; without kids, the room presents a greater challenge. There are a lot of puzzles to solve, so even in a larger group, nobody will be bored. Due to the story, you’ll just keep on checking the time and trying to save the world.
Price: $38 – $48 per person
Players: 2-7
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#5. The Body Shop – Red Fox
It’s an exciting room; the story begins in a garage, where lots of interesting puzzles await you, but only when you get out of this room will you be faced with the true horrors of this place. You arrive somewhere spectacular and spine-chilling, from where there might not be an escape. There are puzzles aplenty even for larger groups; it’s an entertaining room.
Price: $36 – $47 per person
Players: 2-10
All games are private
Booking: redfoxescapes.com
#6. Storyteller’s Secret – Boxaroo
You find yourself in a story book where you have to help the protagonist write the story of their great journey. There are many spectacular and exciting challenges to complete before you reach the end of the story. I mostly recommend the room for groups of 4-5 people; it provides easy recreation.
Price: $36 – $48 per person
Players: 2-10
All games are private
Booking: boxaroo.me
#7. U-boat – Red Fox
You need to escape from a German submarine, you’ll be faced with a lot of puzzles, with the first room being particularly challenging, even for larger teams. The room changes a lot after we get out of the second room, it gets more exciting, and the action picks up. The more of you there are, the better, because you’ll need everyone if you want to finish and get off the submarine on time.
Price: $36 – $47 per person
Players: 2-10
All games are private
Booking: redfoxescapes.com
#8. Conundrum Museum – Boxaroo
You’re dropped into another story, in a museum. The rooms tell different stories, and each is decorated differently to suit their own story. You’re guided through the story from beginning to end, so you always know what to do, but it’s not always easy to actually do it. Start off with at least 4 people, otherwise you’ll be in such a rush that you forget to enjoy the game.
Price: $36 – $48 per person
Players: 2-10
All games are private
Booking: boxaroo.me
#9. Heist – Red Fox
The theme and atmosphere of this room is similar to Boxaroo’s Conundrum Museum, but this one is situated in a big museum with lots of pictures and artworks. These works of art are unique and terribly atmospheric, many of them hold clues, others are themselves puzzles to solve. The best solution is not always the simplest one.
Price: $36 – $47 per person
Players: 2-10
All games are private
Booking: redfoxescapes.com
#10. Hustler – Trapology
In this room, the group is divided in two and has to solve puzzles simultaneouly in two separate rooms. There’s a lot to do, you can’t waste time, otherwise you won’t make it to the end on time. Because of all the puzzles, it’s better to have more people and a good amount of escape room experience in the group, because you’ll need all your skills.
Price: $38 – $45 per person
Players: 2-10
All games are private
Booking: trapologyboston.com
Best Scary Rooms in Boston
Insane Asylum – Paniq Room Boston
You’re in for a spine-chilling experience if you try to escape the Insane Asylum. You never know what the room has in store for you, the place has an oppressive atmosphere all throughout, and its location in a basement makes it even more creepy. Blood stains on the wall, cockroaches, and a bird; you have to deal with these while hearing other patients scream and cry in the background.
Serial Killer Charade – Room Escape Boston
Your team has formed the task force in charge of tracking down the victims. After a long search, you set up camp in an abandoned cabin, but as the sun goes down, the nightmare truly begins.
The Body shop – Red Fox
You’re in a garage where you think you’re looking for a missing girl, but then you find yourself in a place where you’ll need all your courage. You found the lair of a psychopathic serial killer, where you’ll find the remains of his previous victims.
Hardest escape room in Boston
For me, hard escape rooms are the ones where a good story is blended with unique puzzles. Because without a frame, no matter how good each puzzle is, if they are not connected, they won’t make a good story. Games should be diverse, because opening 30-40 padlocks and keys is neither varied nor exciting after a while. Good rooms also need creative games and interactive puzzles, a combination of both, and of course good company for a really good escape room experience. In this case
Atlantis – Paniq Escape Room
In this room, the interactive puzzles present the difficulty, you need all your skills to solve them. If you manage to grasp the dynamics of the room, you’ll find it easier to advance, but if you don’t, you’ll need help.
Insane Asylum – Paniq Escape Room
The first room is one of the most difficult rooms; you only have to solve one puzzle, but there’s a 99% chance you’ll need help to solve it. You see and know everything, yet you can’t solve it, that’s the difficulty of this room; and if you start off in the wrong direction, you’ll never get out of there, and therefore further in the game.
U-boat – Red Fox
Here, too, the difficulty is in the first room, but you have more puzzles to solve than in Insane Aslyum. You need all the knowledge and focus you can muster to find the connections that will help you to make progress escaping the submarine.
Storyteller’s Secret – Boxaroo
The biggest difficulties here are the sheer number of puzzles and connecting the dots. It’s a challenge to figure out which tool to use when. It is easy to get lost in the story, which the book always helps along.
The above list is our subjective opinion. None of the companies paid us to make the list or to be featured prominently on it.
Last update: 29.09.2022.