Are you searching for the ultimate horror escape rooms in Athens? Get ready for 20 terrifying games with live actors that will keep you on edge!
You might already know that Athens is home to some of the best escape games in the world.
In recent years, Greek escape rooms have climbed to the top of international rankings, catching the attention of escape room enthusiasts worldwide.
Players from across the world are traveling to Athens, taking on 2, 3, or even 4 rooms in a single day!
More impressively, beyond its puzzle-solving fame, Athens has become a true hotspot for horror escape rooms, offering adrenaline-pumping experiences.
So, if you’re ready for some serious scares, here are my top 20 recommendations for the best horror escape rooms in Athens that you must definetly try!
Each of these rooms offers a great experience with immersive stories, smart setups, and live actors who will have you questioning what’s real and what’s not.
Of course, “top” can be subjective — so take your time to read through the list and find the room that best suits your scare level and preferences!
Six essential tips before booking your horror escape rooms adventure in Athens:
- Online reservations are available for all the escape rooms on this list.
- Prices vary depending on the game’s length and the size of your team, usually ranging from €25 to €40 per person. That said, every room here is a great value-for-money choice.
- Most games support teams of 3 to 6 players. However, some rooms accommodate solo players or groups of up to 8. If you have a special request, don’t hesitate to reach out to the game masters: calling them directly is often the fastest option.
- All games are available in English, but not all websites are. That’s where Google Translate can help! If anything remains unclear, contact the hosts directly for assistance.
- Want to play late? Almost all rooms run sessions after midnight or have their last slots starting at 23:30. Perfect if you’re on a tight schedule.
- Most horror escape rooms in Athens feature live actors – expect jump scares and moments that feel straight out of a horror movie. Wear something comfortable and prepare to be terrified (in the best way).
Map of Athens’ 20 Best Horror Escape Rooms
#20 The Sacrifice @ Disappear EscapeRoom
Plot: Torryburn, Scotland, 1899.
A secluded village with a chilling past, where death and paranormal phenomena accompany anyone who has visited it in recent years.
The village is now dominated by a dark force that has taken root in its foundations.
Can you defy what awaits you and put an end to this macabre story?
But be careful; the only certain thing is that you are not alone…
Time and blood freeze there, so think twice before you embark on your journey to Torryburn.
Time to escape: 110′
Players: 3-6
Book on the official website: disappearescape.gr
#19 M’AMMA @ Suspense Escape Rooms
Plot: God, please give me a child.
I will be a good mother.
I promise!
Juarez, Mexico, 1979
“Pray for m’amma”
Time to escape: 105′
Players: 3-6
Book online: escapeall.gr
#18 Amen @ Neverland
Plot: We are all sinners.
Descendants of the first humans, who dared to break God’s commandment, we inherited from them the inclination toward evil – a force that often leads us to stray from divine will in our daily lives.
Let us all pray for our sins.
Amen.
Monk Bertino
Certosa di Pavia
Milan, Italy, 1981
Based on true events
Time to escape: 110′
Players: 3-5
Book online: escapeall.gr
#17 The Litchver Woodland @ Ban Bang Theory
Plot: Like brave adventurers, you and your friends decide to embark on a journey to the mysterious Litchver Forest, despite the chilling stories that surround it.
You contact a local resident from a nearby village—the only one who knows the area’s secrets.
Once you agree on the fee for his services, you set off on your journey deep into Romania’s Carpathian Mountains.
You visit him at his home to receive essential information about your excursion and to hear the local legends of the forest…
But in the forest… no one is ever truly alone.
Time to escape: 90′
Players: 3-6
Book on the official website: bbtheory-escape.gr
#16 Stigmata @ Dark Maze
Plot: September 14, 1224, Assisi, Italy
On Mount Alvernia, Father Francis prays on his knees, asking God to allow him to experience the pain and suffering of Jesus at the time of the crucifixion.
Shortly afterward, he shows nail wounds on his hands and feet while blood runs down his forehead as if a crown of thorns had been placed on his head.
A few months later, the official Catholic Church recognized Father Francis as the first man to display stigmata.
October 21, 1896, Pluckley, England
Howls wake the peaceful village in the middle of the night.
The desperate father runs upstairs to the top floor of his humble home and breathlessly discovers that there are wounds all over his little daughter’s limbs.
With trembling hands and thinking that his child is suffering from some disease, he writes a letter urgently asking for medical help and sends it to the capital.
After a few days, a team of doctors set off from London to Pluckley to find out what exactly is happening to the girl.
Mental state, disease of the times, or reality?
Think carefully before you get on the old carriage and start your journey there…
Time to escape: 105′
Players: 2-5
Book on the official website: darkmaze.gr
#15 Hide N Seek @ Brainiac Escape Rooms
Plot: Halloween night has arrived once again.
Another shift has come to an end.
You and your colleagues hand in your weapons and head to the nearest pub to enjoy your usual coffee, accompanied by one of Haddonfield’s finest donuts.
Time to escape: 120′
Players: 2-6
Book on the official website: brainiac.gr
#14 The Ghost Writer @ Horror Productions
Plot: No one knows who was behind the creation of these three best-selling novels.
Despite selling thousands of copies each day, their publication was abruptly halted.
Why?
It appears they inspired a serial killer who murders his victims in the exact same gruesome ways described in the books.
As die-hard fans of the anonymous author, you discover, after extensive research, an address miles away from the city – rumored to be the home of the “Ghost” writer.
You decide to visit, hoping to get an autograph… if he’s friendly.
Prepare to experience the ultimate horror novel in a live, interactive escape room adventure – where fiction and reality are separated by just a single page…
One thing’s for sure: some stories should never have been written.
Based on a true story.
Time to escape: 120′
Players: 3-6
Book on the official website: horrorproductions.gr
#13 The Sculptor @ Freaky Minds
Plot: People frequently go missing across America, and while the police manage to find some -alive or dead- others vanish without a trace, never to be seen again.
January 1985, Missouri, USA
You and your team are journalism students in your final year, and your thesis focuses on the disappearances along the legendary Route 66.
You’re tasked with embarking on an 1.800-mile journey to complete a documentary filled with testimonies and in-depth analysis.
P.S.: If you really want to hurt your parents but don’t have the courage to kill them, the least you can do is pursue a career in art. That way, you’ll manage both.
Time to escape: 120′
Players: 2-6
Book on the official website: freakyminds.gr
#12 Lethal Decision 2: Hell Awaits @ EscapeClue
Plot: If you’re reading this letter, it means you survived that cursed mansion on Bosporus Street.
Years have passed since that blood-soaked night when the seventh gate of hell opened, wiping out the Dimitriadis family.
To this day, many locals dismiss these events as mere ghost stories meant to scare children…
Very few have made it out of the mansion alive like you did. And although some found the gate, none have ever returned to seal it shut.
If you want to break the curse and close hell’s gate once and for all, tonight is your only chance to enter…
Time to escape: 140′
Players: 3-5
Book online: escapeall.gr
#11 Operation Black “I” @ C9H13NO3 Donors
Plot: MEGI, the agency for the study of paranormal phenomena, has recorded 33 global hotspots where energy and magnetic fields have surged.
Agents have been dispatched to all these locations to uncover what exactly happened.
According to reports, Team Sierra1 in Greece managed to approach and capture a “Subject”.
With clearance from Omega headquarters, they are now en route to a Safe House.
To all available Sierra units—this is Omega headquarters:
Team Sierra1 has requested immediate support.
The “Subject” they are transporting is out of control.
We don’t know what we’re dealing with.
We don’t know what it’s capable of.
And most importantly—we don’t know if it’s alone.
Proceed immediately. Level 5 threat…
Over.
Time to escape: 100′
Players: 3-5
Book on the official website: c9h13no3donors.com
Best Horror Escape Rooms Of Athens in 2025: Top 10
#10 Evil Inside @ Bloodlines Escape Rooms
Plot: The case of Emily Rose has reopened following the mysterious deaths of her parents inside prison.
Your law firm has assigned you to investigate the case.
Was it possession or mental illness that caused her death?
What really happened to her?
Can you uncover the truth?
Time to escape: 120′
Players: 3-5
Book on the official website: bloodlinesescaperooms.gr
#9 The Butcher @ Escapepolis
Plot: Austin, Texas, 2019.
The state is shocked at the consecutive abductions and findings of dismembered bodies.
According to the local Authorities, a serial killer is striking terror and agony in the local community.
Nothing, and no one, seems able to stop him.
Austin, Texas, 1981.
6-year-old Thomas witnesses the cruel murder and dismemberment of his mother by his father, a butcher by profession.
The killer becomes aware of his son’s presence and locks him in the shop’s freezer with the boy’s mother.
Thomas, however, escapes, steals his father’s gun from the bedside table, and manages to kill him.
The abhorrent story of 1981 revives today, 38 years later, bringing little Thomas again to the spotlight.
He grew up as the most ruthless serial killer in American crime history.
No mercy, no regret, no guilt for his actions.
His victims are both women and men.
Women who are kidnapped and then murdered and dismembered, much to the delight of his ill imagination that seeks to create his mother’s figure again.
As for men, they bring back memories from his father’s criminal past, which is a good enough reason to kill as many as he can… and, in this way, to revenge on the person who took away his childhood joy!
You are his last victims, starring in the drama’s final act.
Your mission is to escape before the Butcher stains with blood your abduction case.
Remain calm and focused for an experience that gets your adrenalin going!
But hurry up, Thomas will not show mercy when he meets you…
Time to escape: 100′
Players: 3-5
Book on the official website: escaperoomathens.gr
#8 Zoe @ XII Divisions Escape Rooms
Plot: Tonight, the full moon rises…
Tonight, it will happen again…
Tonight, another child will disappear, just as they always do during every full moon…
But this time, that child will be mine—there are no other children left in the village.
It has taken them all…
We must not fail again…
This is our last chance to save our children.
We are the villagers of Skull Valley.
Time to escape: 110′
Players: 2-5
Book on the official website: xiidivisions.gr
#7 Woman In Black @ Coven escape rooms
Plot: Residents of Grithin Gifford’s Village are unfriendly to any stranger.
In particular to a lawyer sent from London to find the will of the last occupant of the old mansion across the swamp road.
No one has seen her as long as this place stands there and rots on its own.
That woman dressed in black.
That form who spreads death.
No one has seen her.
Until today…
Time to escape: 100′
Players: 3-6
Book on the official website: covenescaperooms.gr
#6 Don’t Take A Breath @ Verone
Plot: It seemed like a good idea to make tons of money easily, and they had all the information required plus the keys because the dad of a group member owned the security company!
A disabled, visually impaired man shouldn’t be an obstacle…
The reality turned out to be a nightmare!!
What they didn’t know was that the disabled was a veteran of the United States special armed forces carrying the scars of the distortion of the war in Iraq in 1991!
His huge, isolated mansion was his own mission shelter!
This house in the disreputable neighborhood hid more secrets than they had expected and turned out to be a battlefield!
Will the invaders manage to survive this deadly escape game?
Time to escape: 120′
Players: 2-6
Book on the official website: verone.gr
#5 Mystic Project @ Mystic Corporation
Plot: You are a group of journalists who learned that the first escape room created in the 18th century has been reconstructed.
A 30-minute puzzle room that the eccentric Lord Beaverwood had built to entertain his distinguished clients.
After re-establishing his mysterious Society, the Lord’s descendants found the designs and built this unique room in Athens.
So, you arrive at the headquarters of the Society, a neoclassical corner mansion, to cover the reportage.
You have a huge smile on your face and 30 minutes in front of you to solve the puzzles of the first Escape Room ever created!
Time to escape: 150′
Players: 3-6
Book on the official website: mystic-corporation.gr
#4 Sanatorium (Night Mode) @ Lockhill Metaxourgio
Plot: “The sanatorium is no longer used.
From what I’ve read, it was used for both the mentally and the physically impaired, and the living conditions in that place were truly horrendous.
The strange thing is, I was passing by the other day, and I swear I heard someone screaming from the inside.
I must have been mistaken, though, because it was closed long ago.”
Excerpt from the diary of Professor Nathan Jones
Time to escape: 90′
Players: 1-5
Book on the official website: lockhill.gr
#3 Houdini @ Escape World
Plot: “The prophecy is clear…
The day will come when the chosen ones arrive at the place where it all began – my house!
The moment will come when they help free me from the prison cell at the heart of hell!
And the time will come when they help me defeat him!
The Lord of Hell himself!”
Harry Houdini
The day has arrived…!
Time to escape: 100′
Players: 3-5
Book online: escapeall.gr
#2 El Exorcista @ No Exit
Plot: The exorcist opened the door with the number 13 and met a seemingly innocent girl possessed by a powerful demon.
But his forces are not enough to save the little one.
Are you brave enough to help in his difficult task without losing your own soul?
Time to escape: 90′
Players: 3-5
Book on the official website: noexit.gr
#1 Chapel & Catacombs @ Lockhill Nea Ionia
Plot: “This is the only place of worship in Lockhill.
Even though it is supposed to be a place of peace and quiet, my skin crawls whenever I go near it.
Maybe it’s just the catacombs next to it, or maybe something else…”.
Excerpt from the diary of Professor Nathan Jones
* Chapel & Catacombs was voted the Best Escape Room In the World for 2022, according to the TERPECA contest!
Time to escape: 150′
Players: 1-8
Book on the official website: lockhill.gr
Not a fan of horror? No worries!
If jump scares and spooky atmospheres aren’t your thing, Athens still has plenty to offer.
Alongside the best 20 horror escape rooms in Athens for 2025, you can also check out the city’s best puzzle-based escape rooms (coming soon).
These games focus on logic, teamwork, and problem-solving!
And if you’re looking for even more unique experiences, don’t miss my Hidden Gems of Athens guide.
It’s packed with unusual and off-the-beaten-path ideas to explore during your trip.
Happy escaping!
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