Escape games have spread far and wide in recent years, and several of these businesses have opened in Montreal. They offer a fun and original activity to enjoy with friends, or as a team-building exercise with colleagues. Themes and scenarios vary, giving you plenty of opportunities to test your lateral thinking and creativity. Good luck!
Form a team and plan your strategy to solve one of several scenarios. In Dynamic Duo you will be handcuffed to a partner and blindfolded, then have to plot your escape. The Study is a longer-running classic breakout game, for 2 to 4 players, where you have to collaborate to solve several puzzles to find the key to get out. In The Trap, for 3 to 5 players, you investigate a crime scene, which, as the name suggests, contains a trap. And Project X casts you as a spy on a mission, so you can release your inner Jason Bourne.
This real-time adventure game offers three scenarios. Prison Break will transport you to Montreal's criminal underworld in the '20s, populated by mafia and corrupt police, while Scientist Lab has you joining a military investigation to find an engineering professor. Or feel like a Canadian Indiana Jones in Lost Temple, as your group leads an expedition to find a mystic idol. All games are timed, so you need to work fast and avoid distractions!
The largest escape game venue in downtown Montreal, Trapped has four exciting themes to entertain you and your friends. The settings range from Egypt and a hospital to a medieval prison and an FBI investigation in Japan. Depending on what you choose, you can have between 2 and 8 people in your group as you try to solve the puzzle, avoid the traps, and win the game!
Immersive adventures for 2 to 6 players await you at Échappe-toi. Fun capers include Murder at Champlain TV, which asks you to solve the murder of a television host who died in the '70s on the set of her show, and The Cursed Treasure of Hochelaga, which will set you on the trail of Jacques Cartier, where you will have to search a shipwreck and solve an historical enigma without losing your head
Three original adventures for 2 to 6 players are offered at Ezkapaz. In The Globe-Trotting Photographer, a private collector asks you to quickly locate, before the police arrive, a jewel in the studio of a famous photographer who disappeared without a trace. The Silver Dawn Society addresses the problem of cults. You have infiltrated the premises of an organization in order to find overwhelming evidence that can shed light on their criminal methods. Finally, the nostalgic game POP presents you with an original challenge by plunging you into the music, games, movies and video clips of the '80s and '90s.
Find The Key offers interactive games ideal for groups of 6 players. Crime Scene transports you to the office of the legendary detective Hercule Poirot, who has disappeared. To avoid being charged with his murder, you must either solve the investigation, or find the key that will let you escape before police arrive. In War Zone, you are in 1942, fighting the enemy not with guns or bombs, but with your brain, by sabotaging their technology. The Illusionist asks you to enter the cursed workshop of a famous magician who disappeared while experimenting with teleportation.
Breakout at Quartier Dix30 offers 5 rooms with different themes and varying degrees of difficulty, to be played by teams of 2 to 8 people. You can discover the identity of a mysterious ventriloquist in Mr. Oswald's Greatest Show, or pursue a criminal magician in Chamber of Hocus. Amnesia strikes you in Project Fallout: you have no memory of the name of a weapon of mass destruction, about which you will be interrogated. And in Dreadnought, you will survive a natural disaster in an alternative future where you follow a quest to a promised land.