Escape Rooms in Media

Escape Rooms have slowly blown up in mainstream media making their way into video games, TV shows and movies; below is a compiled list of times Escape Rooms or the concept of an Escape Room have popped up in these areas.

I endeavour to keep this list as updated as possible!

Credit to the original post that inspired this list - https://lauraehall.medium.com/escape-rooms-in-media-index-861c75122a95

Television

• The Rookie - “Time of Death” - S1 Ep8

• Brooklyn Nine-Nine - “Karen Peralta” - S3 Ep14

• Portlandia - “No Thank You” - S8 Ep3

• The Big Bang Theory - "The Intimacy Acceleration" - S8 Ep16

• My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic - “All Bottled Up” - S7 Ep2

• Castle - "The Blame Game" - S8 Ep12

• 2 Broke Girls - “And the Escape Room” - S5 Ep5

• The Middle - "Escape Orson" - S8 Ep10

• Schitt’s Creek - "Escape Room" - S6 Ep11

• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend - “I’m Making Up for Lost Time” - S4 Ep4

• American Housewife - "Surprise" - S1 Ep12

• It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia - "The Gang Escapes" - S13 Ep2

• Modern Family - "The Escape" - S9 Ep21

• Bobs Burgers - "The trouble with doubles" - S8 Ep14

• Not Going Out - "Escape Room" - S9 Ep2

• Inside No. 9 - "CTRL, ALT, ESC" - S9 Ep4

• Race To Escape (2015)

• Celebrity Escape Room (2020)

• Escape! with Janet Varney (2017) - YouTube Series

• Alice in Borderland (2020)

• Squid Game (2021)

• The Crystal Maze (1990)

• The Cube (2009)

• Jungle Run (1999)

• Fort Boyard (1998)

• The Mole (2022)

• Survivor (2000)

• Create The Escape (2019)

Movies

• The Game (1997)

• Escape Room (2019)

• Escape Room 2 : Tournament of Champions (2021)

• Cube (1997)

• SAW (2004)

• Escape Room (2018)

• Fermats Room (2007)

• No Escape Room (2018)

• Choose or Die (2022)

• Escape: Puzzle of Fear (2020)

• Escape Room (2017)

• Breathing Room (2008)

• The Institute (2013) - Documentary

Video Games

• Crimson Room (2004)

• The Secret Of Monkey Island (1990)

• The Room (2012)

• The Room Two (2013)

• The Room Three (2015)

• The Room - Old Sins (2018)

• The Room VR - A Dark Matter (2020)

• Escape Academy (2022)

• Portal (2007)

• Portal - Still Alive (2008)

• Portal 2 (2011)

• We Were Here (2017)

• We Were Here Too (2018)

• We Were Here Together (2019)

• We Were Here Forever (2022)

• We Were Here Expeditions: The FriendShip (2023)

• Escape Simulator (2021)

• Escape Simulator 2 (COMING SOON)

• I Expect You To Die (2016)

• I Expect You To Die 2: The Spy and the Liar (2021)

• Unboxing the Cryptic Killer (2023)

• The Witness (2016)

• Palindrome Syndrome: Escape Room (2020)

• ROOMS - The Main Building (2014)

• ROOMS - The Toymakers Mansion (2015)

• Rooms Of Realities (2023)

• SAW: The Video Game (2009)

• The House of Da Vinci (2017)

• The House of Da Vinci 2 (2019)

• The House of Da Vinci 3 (2022)

• Agent A - A Puzzle in Disguise (2015)

• Escape Memoirs - Mansion Heist (2022)

• Escape Memoirs - Safe House (2024)

• First Class Escape - The Train of thought (2021)

• First Class Escape 2 - Head in the clouds (2022)

• Forgiveness: Escape Room (2019)

• EXIT - The Curse of Ophir (2022)

• EXIT - Trial of the Griffin (2023)

• Tick Tock - A Tale For Two (2019)

• Superliminal (2019)

• The Outlast Trials (2023)

• The Past Within (2022)

• How 2 Escape (2023)

• In Sink (2024)

• Rooms & Exits (2020) - Mobile Game

• Adventure Escape Mysteries (2018) - Mobile Game

• The Birdcage (2018) - Mobile Game

• Tiny Room Stories - Town Mystery (2019) - Mobile Game