Top 5 Escape Rooms in Fort Worth

If you’re looking for a fun family activity or a team-building exercise for the office, have you considered an escape room? Over the last decade, escape rooms have risen in popularity, and for a good reason. They offer an exciting opportunity to get together with family, friends, and co-workers and solve riddles to escape a room and win the game.

Escape rooms come in various themes, which add to the adventure. You can get dropped into a world of wizards and have to learn magic and cast spells to solve puzzles, or you could end up in an Old West saloon plotting to rob a bank and avoid capture.

So, if you’re ready to take on the challenge of escaping, we’ve put together a list of the top five escape room companies in Fort Worth. We picked our top five based on room selection creativity, quality craftsmanship, and cleverness in riddle creations. 

Escape The Room

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Located in the Sundance Entertainment District in downtown Fort Worth, Escape The Room created six unique rooms to challenge your problem-solving skills while trying to beat the clock. You can test your nautical skills with The Submarine Room. This story-driven adventure places you in a submarine sunk to the bottom of the ocean. Not only must you navigate the treacherous waters under the sea, but you have to outwit the insane Captain of this wayward submarine. You and seven friends have one hour to make it to the surface before your oxygen runs out.

The Jurassic Escape Room pits you against mad scientists cloning dinosaurs in Denver. Stop the experiments and protect the city before the dinosaurs wreak havoc, all while eluding a few dinosaurs already on the loose. For a real challenge, you can try your luck in Meltdown. You and your team enter a nuclear power plant for a routine inspection only to find the supervisor has gone missing. You have one hour to stop a meltdown and save the day.

The kids will love The Theater Room, a wacky, colorful adventure that will have you feeling like you were dropped into a Pixar movie. Take control of the stage in less than an hour, or everyone gets the hook. One of their most popular rooms, The Clock Tower, drops you in a time loop with a crazy timekeeper. You must literally beat the clock to escape, but can you do it in time? The Western Bank Heist Room lets you and your friends be the villain. You have one hour to grab the cash and escape the deputies.

Texas Panic Room

You’ll find heart-pounding adventure at the Texas Panic Room located on Hemphill Street in Fort Worth. They created two thrilling rooms to challenge visitors to escape or else. Cabin Fever has eight people trapped in a cabin during a fierce blizzard on a mountain. But the cabin can only take so much. You have less than 60 minutes to solve the riddles and escape the cabin before it collapses around you. Try not to panic.

The second adventure, Phase III: Human Trials, has you and up to nine companions kidnapped by a crazy doctor who injected everyone with a lethal drug. You must work with a secret ally to find the cure and escape before the doctor returns. This chilling adventure boasts a success rate of 36%, so enter at your own risk.

Red Door Escape Rooms

Put away the board games and head over to Red Door Escape Rooms on West 7th Street in Fort Worth for your next family game night. Cash Me If You Can put up to six players into a game show theme where you must beat the house and win the most money to escape. You and your team can play Cash Me If You Can against another team in competition mode.

The Time Machine room ranks as one of the more difficult rooms in the city. You and up to six other friends learn the hard way not to play with your uncle’s time machine. You must survive the ’70s, medieval times, and the future before finding your way home. With less than 5% succeeding, you better bring your A-game.

First-timers love the Last Stop, a thrilling detective challenge. Up to three players act as detectives investigating a murder. You only have 25 minutes to ID the victim, find the murder weapon, and catch the culprit before you become the next victim.

The Secret Chambers

The Secret Chambers five-star escape room features the largest escape rooms in the region. In The Pirate Adventure, you must outsmart the pirate Blackbeard and find his treasure. Be the villain in The Train Heist that pits your team against the clock to rob a high-speed train full of gold. The Poe Adventure room asks you to unravel the mystery surrounding the famous writer’s death in this mature and macabre adventure.

The Mafia Adventure sets you on the hunt for Bonnie and Clyde. The stakes get raised when your targets attempt to hide in a well-known mafia speakeasy. You must avoid the mafia while capturing the dangerous duo, but can you do it before time runs out? The Witch’s Tower Adventure needs you and your friends to help the stricken king. You must enter the Witch’s Tower and retrieve a powerful diamond to reverse the curse on your beloved ruler. The fate of the entire kingdom rests with you, but are you up for the challenge?

The Perfect Escape

Can you make the perfect escape? The master criminal O’Bannion has eluded capture yet again. You and your team are the latest teams assembled to take him down. You must find the evidence to put him away for good before he slips through your fingers forever. 

Wandering away from your tour group in The Pharoah’s Tomb may have been a mistake. Now, you and your friends are sealed inside. Discover the clues to open the doors and escape before the curse of the Pharoah hits you too. The Perfect Escape offers a light-hearted adventure in Wong’s Chinese. You and your friends become chefs in the famous kitchen. You must prepare the perfect meals to escape.

At Hiley Hyundai of Fort Worth, we love a good adventure. That’s why we put together this list of the top five escape rooms in Fort Worth. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. If we left one of your favorite rooms off this list, please let us know. We’ll update the list so that others can enjoy it as well.