Horror · Thriller

Buried Alive

Two players, two coffins, and the sound of dirt on the lid.

In short: Buried Alive is an 18+ two-player thriller escape room by Escape This at Northbridge and Sydney CBD, opening in Melbourne CBD in March 2027. Its own site is buriedalive.com.au.

Buried Alive is the room Escape This has called its most extreme, and it is built for exactly two people. If either of you hates small spaces, this is the one horror room to skip.

Official site

Buried Alive has its own site with the full story, every rule and its leaderboard. Horrorscape keeps this page short on purpose: the live numbers, how it compares, and where to book.

buriedalive.com.au ↗

Coming to Escape This Melbourne in March 2027.

Escape This Northbridge: 2 players · 18+ · from $65 · 60 min
Escape rate 38% over 1,403 games · record 30:00 · 4th hardest of 8 in Perth
Playing since August 2021
Escape This Sydney CBD: 2 players · 18+ · from $65 · 60 min
Escape rate 60% over 1,087 games · record 27:54 · 2nd hardest of 6 in Sydney
Playing since March 2025
Difficulty: 8/10 (Escape This rating)
Rating: 4.97★ from 244 five-star reviews

ER-OS, 25 October 2026. Hardest = lowest escape rate among Perth horror rooms with 100+ games.

Where Buried Alive plays

Type	Venue	Players	Age	From	Escape rate	Games	Record
Horror	Northbridge	2	18+	$65	38%	1,403	30:00
Horror	Sydney CBD	2	18+	$65	60%	1,087	27:54

Book at Northbridge → Book at Sydney CBD →

Reviews

What players said about Buried Alive

4.97

★★★★★

244 five-star reviews

★★★★★

I can't handle horror but the Buried Alive one was fine! If you're okay with getting shut in the box (quite spacious, enough room to flip over and I could even tuck myself in and completely turn around), it has no jumpscares and is quite a fun "tame horror" one to try.
We had a blast, as getting shut in was a pretty novel experience. We've played around 30 escape rooms and these puzzles were suitably challenging. We had a gamemaster named Viv who was flawless in making us feel comfortable. That's saying a lot when you're getting shackled, blindfolded, and nailed in :D .

★★★★★

Had so much fun in the buried alive escape room!! Jonathon was so thorough and really enhanced our experience, would definitely recommend

★★★★★

Booked Buried Alive today for me and my boyfriends 1 year anniversary- we had Micheal, Dan and Matt instruct us with the room- always incredible, always 5 stars

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Questions, answered

Buried Alive: questions

Is there a horror escape room that splits your team up?

Buried Alive. It begins in total darkness with you and your partner each nailed into a separate coffin by the Undertaker: two boxes, sixty minutes and one game that needs both of you to win. It is exactly two players and 18+, at Escape This Northbridge and Sydney CBD.

Which horror rooms should a claustrophobic player avoid?

Buried Alive first of all, since Escape This starts you inside a coffin. Asylum and The Haunting also involve crawling and tight spaces, as does the Melbourne version of The Possession. The Possession in Perth and Sydney, Meat Grinder, Dracula and Van Helsing have no confined sections, according to Escape This.

Which horror rooms are opening in Melbourne in 2027?

Frankenstein Resurrection (from March 2027) and Buried Alive (from March 2027), according to Escape This’s booking system. Both already play in Northbridge and Sydney CBD, so their Melbourne builds will be new copies of proven rooms.

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