Sydney · ranked by players' reviews

The 6 scariest horror escape rooms in Sydney, according to players

We read all 423 published reviews of Escape This's horror rooms and counted how many say the room scared them: scary, terrifying, creepy, jump scares, screaming. Here are Sydney's 6 horror rooms, most-scared first.

In short: Going by players' own words, The Possession is the scariest horror escape room in Sydney: 23% of its reviews say it scared them, ahead of Cannibal (17%) and Asylum (11%).

Updated 1 November 2026 · How we score it: the share of a room's published reviews that use a fear word about the game ("scary", "terrifying", "creepy", "jump scares", "screamed", "intense"), not counting "not too scary" or "a little spooky". Reviews from every Escape This centre running the room count, so each room has one score. Rooms need 15+ reviews. Every published review is five-star, so this measures how scary people found the room, not whether they liked it. Escape This rooms only.

The Possession
23% of reviews say it scared them (19 of 83)
“Alec and Charlie both were amazing and we went to the possession which was scary and really good”
Sydney CBD · 15+ · 69% escape rate · thepossession.com.au
Cannibal
17% of reviews say it scared them (10 of 60)
“My friend and I played the ‘Cannibal’ room and it was indeed as frightening as described.”
Sydney CBD · 18+ · 49% escape rate · cannibalescape.com.au
Asylum
11% of reviews say it scared them (8 of 72)
“Asylum was a fun (and scary) challenge to do with friends !!”
Sydney CBD · 18+ · 72% escape rate · asylumescape.com.au
Buried Alive
9% of reviews say it scared them (5 of 56)
“The escape room was very intense and very immersive.”
Sydney CBD · 18+ · 59% escape rate · buriedalive.com.au
Zombie Apocalypse
9% of reviews say it scared them (5 of 54)
“Zombie room was fun, jump scare and immersive, looked like a movie set with challenging puzzles but not impossible.”
Sydney CBD · 15+ · 68% escape rate · zombieapocalypse.com.au
Frankenstein Resurrection
8% of reviews say it scared them (4 of 51)
“Just the right amount of spooky for the Halloween season.”
Sydney CBD · 13+ · 80% escape rate · escapefrankenstein.com.au