Let’s talk about the Los Angeles area escape room scene and our favorite rooms. LA is a huge area so this article will focus on escape rooms within the borders of the City of Los Angeles. Future articles will cover other parts of Southern California…but for now we will focus on LA.

Los Angeles is huge…but so is its escape room scene. If you are new to this area please plan for traffic conditions and finding parking!

Los Angeles has lots of escape rooms to choose from – many ideal for beginners and youngsters and some outstanding rooms for the experienced enthusiast. Check out our recommendations

Let’s start by highlight two excellent choices that made the TERPECA 2023 Top 100 in the World list! TERPECA is the Top Escape Rooms Project Enthusiasts Choice Awards. According to its website, “TERPECA is an attempt to find the very best escape rooms in the world by leveraging the experience of the most experienced escape room enthusiasts in the world. We serve escape room owners and designers by publicly recognizing their achievements, and we serve our fellow enthusiasts by providing an international bucket list of the best rooms to play”. For more about TERPECA please check out a separate article.

TERPECA – Los Angeles escape rooms

Rooms that made the “Top Escape Rooms in-the-world List”

2023 Ratings

Lab Rat by Hatch Escapes - 85th highest rated room in the World (16th in USA)

Project Minotaur by Questroom – 100th highest rated room in the World (19th in USA)

We played and enjoyed both of these rooms and they are integrated in our recommendation below. Even though we played Lab Rat in 2018, it remains our most fun Los Angeles escape room experience.

Now here are OUR recommendations of the Los Angeles Escape Rooms where we had the most FUN starting with those we Very Highly recommended! We had lots of fun playing these rooms!

Very Highly Recommended

These recommendations are based on a FUN FACTOR rating of 9 or 10 out of 10. This is our obviously subjective opinion based on our personal opinions as to how much fun we had considering the whole experience for escape rooms in Los Angeles that are in operation as of the date of this post.

Lab Rat - Hatch Escapes

Unique set and concept. Groups sizes from 4 to 12. Amazing!

Grandma’s Master Plan - 60 Out

Wonderful progression of sets - lots of content for the 75 minute time.

Jack the Ripper - Maze Rooms

Thrilling and respectful use of historical figures. Clean puzzles.

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle - 60 Out

Officially licensed and great respect for the Jumanji content.

The Heist - The Escape Game

Good room for a larger group - starts confined but progresses nicely!
We played this room in the Nashville location of The Escape Game, a company with many locations around the country. The specific art direction and props might vary from location to location…but the game play and overall experience should be similar.

One Way Ticket - Maze Rooms

Special Ops: Mysterious Market –The Escape Game

Amazing set with unique puzzles with cool surprises.
We played this room in the Nashville location of The Escape Game, a company with many locations around the country. The specific art direction and props might vary from location to location…but the game play and overall experience should be similar.

Turing Test - 60 Out

One of the few games that effectively splits group at start. 60 Out states a 4 person minimum but we played with 3 players.

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Highly Recommended

The rooms below are in the top quarter of all escape rooms we have played for the most fun. These earned a FUN FACTOR rating of 8. They are all worth the time and money and are listed in alphabetical order.