FAQ
Before you enter the lab
Zombie Apocalypse is a 60-minute horror escape room by Escape This, set in an abandoned laboratory after the undead have overrun the world. One infected test subject is pacing inside a failing containment chamber, and your team of two to four has to finish the cure before the power gives out. It plays in Northbridge (Perth), Sydney CBD and Melbourne CBD, and the infection spreads to Brisbane CBD in the first half of 2027.
No. In Zombie Apocalypse your first job is keeping the creature locked up. The lab only lets your team leave once the subject is secured in its containment chamber, so the hour is spent saving the lab rather than running from it.
Yes, that is the mission. Zombie Apocalypse asks your team to stabilise the lab’s volatile bio-tech, synthesise the antidote and administer it before containment fails. Sample stations, dosage controls and racks of glowing vials all feed into that one goal.
They are exactly who Escape This recommends Zombie Apocalypse for, along with film and sci-fi lovers. The room shares the end-of-the-world dread of those stories, but the fight happens inside a lab: you are trying to cure the infection, not outrun it.
Zombie Apocalypse is rated 7 out of 10. The clues around the lab are usually easy to spot, but making sense of them takes real thinking. Escape This aims it at players who have done an escape room before, while keen beginners are still welcome to try.
Yes, if you are happy to be stretched. First-time players find Zombie Apocalypse demanding, yet it is still a common pick for a first escape room. Your gamesmaster can hand out extra clues whenever the team stalls.
Very — it is designed to scare. Zombie Apocalypse combines darkness, flashing light, theatrical smoke and possible jump scares with a snarling subject behind the glass all hour. Anyone nervous can talk it through with the team before booking.
Sixty minutes inside Zombie Apocalypse. Add 15 minutes before for the briefing and about 15 after to catch your breath, so the visit takes up to 90 minutes, or a little less if your cure works early.
Zombie Apocalypse is a compact lab built around a single containment chamber, so Escape This caps every session at four. It is company policy not to bend group limits, which keeps each player busy with the puzzles instead of waiting their turn.
Zombie Apocalypse is priced per player. Northbridge: $49 Monday–Thursday, $59 Friday–Sunday. Sydney CBD: $55 Monday–Thursday, $65 Friday–Sunday. Both exclude public and school holidays. Melbourne CBD: $55 off-peak and $65 peak. Every player is 15 or older, so there is no child rate.
Fifteen, with no exceptions. Zombie Apocalypse is a strict 15+ room at Northbridge, Sydney CBD and Melbourne CBD, and staff may check ID from anyone who looks younger.
Two to four. Zombie Apocalypse takes at least two and no more than four players at all three venues, and that limit is fixed.
Perth, Sydney and Melbourne. The Zombie Apocalypse labs are inside Escape This Northbridge on Lake Street, Escape This Sydney CBD on George Street and Escape This Melbourne CBD on Collins Street. The room doesn’t run at Perth CBD or Manly. A Brisbane lab is next, due at Escape This Brisbane CBD in the first half of 2027.
41% of the 4,307 teams who have faced Zombie Apocalypse secured the subject before time ran out. By venue: Northbridge 33%, Sydney CBD 68%, Melbourne CBD 64%.
Zombie Apocalypse averages 4.96 out of 5 across Northbridge, Sydney and Melbourne, with 182 five-star reviews from survivors. Reviewers mention genuine scares, clever puzzles and how different it feels from other escape rooms.
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A comic, made-up notebook kept by Dr Morrow, the scientist who ran the abandoned lab in Zombie Apocalypse and now hides in its storeroom, watching teams finish her cure on the cameras. Each note grumbles about a real part of the game, such as the 15+ rule, the haze or the four-player limit, and sits beside the real room facts and a booking link.
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