Can you break out of these top Athens escape rooms?
Did you know that Athens has some of the best Escape Rooms in the world?
In the top 10 below, you will find many awarded in international competitions with thousands of voters.
In fact, some travelers visit the city just to play in the best escape rooms of Athens.
So, if you are a visitor who loves trying new experiences on your trips, it is worth participating in at least one.
Especially if you are traveling with friends or family, it’s an effortless way to ensure everyone is having fun.
Most of the following Athens’ escape rooms are suitable for anyone, regardless of sex, age, or background, and do not require specific knowledge or qualification.
Five tips to know before participating in an Athens escape room:
- You can make an online reservation on all the Escape Rooms in the following list.
- The price depends on the duration of the game and the number of players participating. Indicatively, it ranges between 10 and 30 euros per person. However, all the games on the list are value for money.
- Most games can accommodate teams of 2 to 5 people. However, some support 1 person, and some others up to 7. If you have a special request, it is better to contact the game masters and ask for their help. The best contact option, if available, is the phone.
- All games are available in English. However, the same does not apply to all websites, precisely those of Escape Rooms # 6 and # 5. So, once again, if you are unsure about something, it’s better to contact the game masters directly.
- Escape rooms #9, #7, #5, #4, #3, #2, and #1 operate even after midnight! If your schedule is busy, you might consider this option as well.
#10 Another Dimension @ ESC
Plot: We are in 2047.
You work as a scientific staff in a research center called SciEsc Laboratory.
According to the rumors, there is something “huge” going on in Sector E, including research and experiments to enter different dimensions and parallel universes.
Access to Sector E is strictly forbidden, but due to your curiosity, you decide to enter.
But you don’t enter just Sector E, but another world that you should never have entered…
Time to escape: 80′
Players: 2-5
Book on the official website: esc-rooms.gr
#9 The Creepy Store And The Lost Souls @ Escapepolis
Plot: On the outside, it looks like any other typical American store, with toys, candy, and household items.
Inside, however, this picture changes.
Guilty secrets, abhorrent crimes, and metaphysical presences, haunting the shelves and corridors for years, return from the past and threaten.
So start solving the mystery because time is not on your side, and the entrapped souls demand answers here and now…
The “Creepy Store”, New Jersey, 1984.
The hermetically closed John and Martha Devil store, which used to thrive with life, weaves a mysterious veil over the local community.
Urban legend or truth that this store is haunted?
That it curiously opens its doors only once a year, always on the same day, and for some hours?
With your group, you decide to discover whether it is another unfounded legend- a product of ill imagination- or whether there is even a little shot of truth in this creepy story.
The only way to solve the mystery is by being at the right place, the right time: at the Creepy Store, where answers to the inexplicable phenomena that haunt people’s lives are hidden…
Soon you will face dead children’s spirits who once went through the store doors.
They are coming to warn you that you have to leave quickly.
Otherwise, you will be trapped forever, like them.
Will you make it or stay forever jailed in Devils’ Hell?
Time to escape: 105′
Players: 2-5
Book on the official website: escaperoomathens.gr
#8 Otherside @ Escaped
Plot: History repeats itself…
But this time, you are trapped on the other side, and returning is difficult.
The experiments at Hawkins never ceased.
Only a girl with supernatural powers can help to turn back and close the Gateway of the Otherside once and for all!
Hurry up because, in 80 minutes, her forces will weaken…
Don’t waste time!
Time to escape: 80′
Players: 2-4
Book online: escapeall.gr
#7 The Dark Side Of The Elements @ Exit Plan
Plot: Every 5,000 years, when three planets are in eclipse, the black hole opens like a door, and evil enters, sowing terror and chaos.
The four elements of life, Water, Earth, Air, and Fire, are grouped around a fifth element: Light, the source of life.
Every element is a huge force on its own.
Yet, altogether, work in harmony to produce the Light of Creation.
But the time of the eclipse is now near, and the four elements have already lost their balance.
The light has been lost.
As the eclipse approaches, myths and legends surface, revealing a well-hidden and sacred Altar of the elements.
Whoever discovers it will go through many difficulties and will have to travel a long way to find the light.
To accomplish this goal, one thing is needed.
Selenite, the crystal that, according to the legends, is hidden in the Forest of Souls.
Only the ray of light of Selenite can activate the rainbow.
Otherwise, the light will turn into darkness and life into death forever.
Unfortunately, there are only a few minutes left until the eclipse!
Nevertheless, “Time does not matter, only life.”
Time to escape: 80′
Players: 2-5
Book on the official website: exitplan.gr
#6 The Order Of Light @ Braincells
Plot: The endless search for the most mythical of treasures.
The ambition and the danger around the investigation of the biggest conspiracy in human history, which was set up with a single purpose: to protect the location of the most legendary object.
Numerous writings and rumors, verses and historical testimonies, occult sciences, and secular conspiracies all conclude that absolute knowledge demands the absolute good as a price.
You are the new members of a secret team to search and locate historical treasures and valuables.
It seems that your predecessors mysteriously disappeared during an investigation, but no one can confirm that.
Having, as unique traces, the last address where they were and a file that mysteriously reached your hands, it is now your responsibility to find out what happened to them and continue their investigation.
Time to escape: 105′
Players: 3-6
Book on the official website: braincells.gr
#5 The Mine Box @ The Box
Plot: The landslide in the old mine left the mining in the middle.
But oxygen is your biggest problem…
The old mine oxygen machine is collapsing.
You hope that your sharp breaths will help you.
But now you cannot go back!
You have to find the gems at all costs and manage to get out before it’s too late…!
Time to escape: 80′
Players: 2-6
Book on the official website: escapethebox.gr
#4 The Cursed Willy @ Sherlocked Homes
Plot: It was late 1719!
The legendary pirate single-eyed Willie, having looted everything he encountered in the sea, is informed by a captive, just before killing him, of the existence of a tune that would endow him not with eternal riches but eternal life if he ever happened to hear it!
Well, he decided to follow the steps indicated and try to make it his own!
And that is how it all turned out!
Willie managed to steal the tune from the aboriginals of the distant island Ram and took shelter in his hideout!
However, he underestimated the spiritual strength of the aboriginals who cursed him “To live eternally, yet without flesh!”.
The myth goes that ever since no one has seen him, and whoever tried to enter his hideout could not escape it; even his soul was captured!
Well, you are now castaways on Ram island!
Ona aboriginals capture you! To let you go, they demand to be given back the tune.
Then, blindfolded, they lead you, after walking for hours, to Willie’s hideout that they found after years of searching!
The hideout opens its gates every hour.
Will you steal the tune of everlasting life, thus winning your freedom from the aboriginals?
Otherwise, according to the myth, you will be detained in company with Willie and the rest of the souls.
You have 70′ to find out!
Time to escape: 70′
Players: 2-5
Book on the official website: sherlockedhomes.gr
Best Escape Rooms in Athens: Top 3
#3 Cosmos 05 @ Escapepolis
Plot: Year 2338.
Planet Earth is on the brink of catastrophe due to overpopulation and environmental pollution.
Humanity is in peril.
Research spaceship COSMOS 05, with its crew, leads a mission of 5 spacecraft traveling over the last 25 years toward planet Kepler-186f.
They aim to find out whether it is suitable for colonization by the Earth’s population.
Captain Hurt has suddenly wakened up from his 24-year cryo-genetic stasis only to realize that some of his fellow members of the crew are dead in their Capsules.
He meets a familiar presence as he tries to determine what went wrong.
ERIK co-commander, the vessel AI supercomputer, has taken control of the vessel and has only one goal.
To terminate the mission before it approaches the planet and the biggest conspiracy in world history comes to light: ERIK is programmed by the Earth’s elite class to sabotage the whole project.
The fact that Kepler-186f has been colonized for thousands of years now must remain a secret.
Your task is to take control of the vessel, bring it back to orbit, and, most importantly, disarm ERIK.
Fight against Time and Death.
The Earth depends on your help.
Will humanity make it or be lost forever in eternity?
Time to escape: 120′
Players: 1-5
Book on the official website: escaperoomathens.gr
#2 Death Row @ No Exit
Plot: The decision was made against you.
The request for pardon was rejected.
The plot against you is so well made that it leads you all to death row.
The time of execution for one of you is approaching. The electric chair is ready for use, but damage to the central system delays the guards in executing the sentence.
Will there be enough time to find evidence of your innocence, or will you witness the execution of your friends, but also yours…?
Time to escape: 100′
Players: 3-5
Book on the official website: noexit.gr
#1 Paradox Project Trilogy @ Paradox Project
Plot: An unexpected invitation.
A long-distanced relative, after a long time, appears again.
Sensing guilty loose ends coming after him, he invites you to his Mansion to share a secret with roots dating back to his past & his adventurous time in Africa.
Are you ready to discover the bitter truth?
Tip: Having been awarded in numerous competitions as the best Escape Room in Europe, and one of the top worldwide, but also my personal favorite, the Paradox Project, deserves special mention.
The trilogy includes the houses, not rooms, Paradox Project: The Mansion, Paradox Project 2: The Bookstore, and Paradox Project 3: The Music Academy.
I strongly recommend that you start with Paradox Project: The Mansion.
You will be amazed.
Time to escape: 180′ – 200′
Players: 3-7
Book on the official website: paradoxproject.gr
Best Action / Horror Escape Rooms in Athens!
In addition to the best “traditional” escape rooms in Athens, you can find here a list of the top 10 horror-themed escape rooms! If you are a fan of the genre, you will love them.
And don’t forget to check the hidden gems in Athens for more unusual ideas to explore during your trip to Athens.
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