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Top Ten Escape Room Themes

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Tiffany Young
Top Ten Escape Room Themes

From friends to coworkers, escape rooms are a phenomenal way to connect and have fun with a group of people. These rooms seriously test your wits in a fun and engaging way by requiring you to work with your team to solve puzzles and escape the room.

Escape rooms have been around for several years now, with some companies even offering virtual escape rooms to their customers. Despite this evolution, there are distinct themes that keep customers coming back for more. We’re going to take a look at some of these escape room themes that are beloved by many.



Top Ten Escape Room Themes


Without wasting any time, let’s take a look at the top ten room themes in the escape room industry!


Movie-Themed Escape Rooms


Ever enjoyed a movie so much you wished you were a part of it? Well, you won’t have to with these film-based escape rooms.


What all exceptional movie productions have in common is an engaging storyline, fascinating worlds, and great characters, to name a few. Movie-themed escape rooms place you right in the heart of the action and require you to use clues to escape the movie adventure.


Zombie-Themed Escape Rooms


As popular as zombie movies and shows are, it’s no wonder that their popularity would cross over into escape rooms.


These apocalyptic-themed escape rooms fill you with fun and terror, requiring you to solve clues to put as much distance between yourself and those flesh-eating creatures. You must race against the clock to escape and/or find the antidote that will end this zombie nightmare.


Bank Heist-Themed Escape Rooms


You and your friends have decided to pull off one last heist that will have you set for life. The catch? Well, it’s not going to go as well as expected. 


With finicky burglar alarms and a forgotten password digit, you and your band of brothers are racing against time to get all the cash and leave before you get caught.

Will your team make it?


Ancient Egyptian-Themed Escape Rooms


There’s nothing quite as exciting as exploring Ancient Egyptian tombs, and viewing priceless artifacts while walking through gloomy tunnels. Your team of archaeologists must work together and race against time to grab as much treasure as you can and avoid being plagued by a curse.


Murder Mystery-Themed Escape Rooms


This “whodunit?” is sure to test you and your fellow detectives’ investigative skills as you piece all the clues and evidence at the crime scene to find out who killed John Doe.


As the night progresses, you find out all is not as it seems as some of the witnesses appear to be sketchier than you thought.


Back to the Future-Themed Escape Rooms


Aliens. UFOs. Spaceships. You’ll encounter all this and more in this high-tech, sci-fi escape room. You and your team must think fast and hard to complete your mission to save planet earth from total ruin and destruction. Will your team figure out how to solve these riddles and save the earth in time?


Prison Escape-Themed Escape Rooms


This escape room theme has a criminal element to it like the bank heist theme, but this time your team is actually in prison for the crimes they may or may not have committed.


That said, you and your cellmates must put your differences aside and work together to escape this hell hole. You will encounter obstacles along the way, but nothing will beat the feeling of escaping the room and being a free person.


Vampire-Themed Escape Rooms


Much like zombie-themed escape rooms, these ones require you to solve exciting yet perplexing puzzles to escape the room. You and your team will have to comb through the clues to figure out how to escape before these bloodsuckers reach you and turn you into one of their own.


Gold Rush-Themed Escape Rooms


Typically set in the theme of the California Gold Rush, you and your team will go on a thrilling adventure in search of gold. You will have to have great communication and collaborative skills to find those nuggets of gold before time runs out and other prospectors find your location.


Circus-Themed Escape Rooms


A day at the circus turns out to be all fun and games, but you still have to find a way to escape. Compared to other escape rooms, these ones are a lot less serious. As you and your team examine the clues to solve the problem, you’re bound to encounter hilarious distractions and obstacles that you just can’t help but laugh at.


With all the hilarity and hijinks at the circus, will you even want to escape?


Final Thoughts on Top Ten Escape Room Themes


Escape rooms have evolved over the years, with many thrilling themes and dynamic productions thrown into the mix. After having read this, we’re sure you’ve come across some that you’re aware of or even one or two that you desperately want to try out.


Either way, don’t forget to bring your thinking caps along to whichever escape room you’re headed to next! You’re sure to have fun and exercise your mind.

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