The Escape Game Houston

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Houston is home to the great minds at NASA's Johnson Space Center and the World Series-winning Astros baseball team. It's also home to two Escape Game Houston venues where your freedom depends on flexing your mental muscles and practicing teamwork.

The Escape Game Galleria is located in the Uptown District's Galleria Mall, while the Escape Game CityCentre is in the Memorial City District. Between the two locations, you'll find multi-room games spanning eight unique themes. Thanks to the attention to detail, the rooms feel like the real deal and instantly set the stage for your adventure.

Both Escape Game locations offer rooms suitable for your level of experience, whether you're a newbie or a seasoned escape room veteran. If you're new to escape rooms, you and your fellow players are introduced to the scenario. With the timer set for 60 minutes, you'll search for clues, solve puzzles to reveal hidden messages, and get help from your Game Guide when you're stumped. You have an hour to escape. Time flies when you're having fun!

Games at The Escape Game Houston Galleria

Dr. Humphreys vanished in The Depths, leaving behind just enough clues to discover what he's been up to in his underwater laboratory. But first, you'll need to navigate your submarine to his lab before you encounter a less than friendly sea creature.

In The Heist, you won't have to go far to recover the stolen masterpiece. The museum's curator, Vincent Hahn, has it stashed in his office. All you need to do is break into his office and snatch the artwork. But can you make it through the museum's galleries and into his office undetected? Can you get out with the artwork before Hahn returns in an hour?

The world as you know it hangs in the balance in Special Ops: The Mysterious Market. In a routine visit to a spice market, your covert team finds a nuclear missile. You'll need to find clues and solve puzzles before the hour's up to save the world from catastrophe. The pressure is on!

Timeliner: Train through Time takes you through the millennia at dizzying speed to fix the past, jumping from the Jurassic era to Medieval times in a matter of seconds. Time is of the essence. You only have an hour to restore the past. Make one mistake and you'll certainly derail the future.

The Galleria location has also added Cosmic Crisis, a newer game that challenges your team to save the galaxy together — and, in a twist on typical space-rescue stories, requires you to break your own spaceship down in order to escape.

Games at The Escape Game Houston CityCentre

The CityCentre location offers The Depths, The Heist, Special Ops: Mysterious Market, and Timeliner: Train through Time, plus three additional games: Playground, Gold Rush, and Prison Break.

Playground, the easiest of games offered, is a light-hearted romp through a fourth-grade classroom. Your class, with a maximum of 12 students, has 60 minutes to finish the assignments on the last day of school before the closing bell rings. If you fail, you can forget about summer vacation!

In Gold Rush, you've inherited gold from Clyde Hamilton. As next of kin, you'll need to find the clues and solve the puzzles he left behind within 60 minutes to get into his cabin. Can you lay your hands on your fortune before the greedy townsfolk turn his place upside down?

The most challenging game is Prison Break. Your team's divided and placed in two cells. You'll need to work together, despite the bars, to escape. The warden is betting you'll fail but just to make things interesting, the warden promises a full pardon if you escape in time. Is freedom an hour away?

You Might Escape, You Will Have Fun

If you want to strategize on the best way to tackle an escape room, check out the Ultimate Guide on How to Beat an Escape Room.

Whether or not your strategies work, the hour-long adventure is fun for couples, friends, and families. The Escape Game Galleria is located at 5015 Westheimer Rd., Houston, TX 77056, on the Galleria's bottom floor next to the ice rink, while The Escape Game CityCentre sits near dining options like Grimaldi's, Fellini, Yi Peng, and Hopdoddy. Please visit The Escape Game Houston's official website for more information and to book your brain boosting, team building experience.