Escape Rooms in South Yarra | Rush Escape Game

Our flagship venue: six immersive escape rooms a two-minute walk from South Yarra Station. Choose a room below to see live times and book.

Which room should you book at South Yarra?

Six rooms is more than any other escape room venue we run, and it is the reason this one takes the widest range of groups. Every scare tier is represented, difficulty runs from three out of five to four, and the rooms have almost nothing in common with each other beyond the building.

We rate every room on two separate scales, because how hard a room is and how frightening it is are different things. Here is the whole venue on both.

The short version. Never done one: Cluemanji. Small children: Monsterz. Work group: Secret Agent Man. Want to be scared: It's Nightmare. Want to be beaten by puzzles without a horror theme: Game of the Dragon.

What this venue is best at

South Yarra is our flagship, and the thing six rooms buys you is not choice for its own sake. It is the ability to keep a group together while sending them to completely different hours.

That is the problem most escape room bookings run into. Someone in the group will not do horror. Someone else has driven across town specifically to do horror. There are three kids and four adults and one person who has played thirty rooms. In a two-room venue that is a negotiation somebody loses. Here it is a timetable.

Book two, three or four rooms in the same time slot, everybody plays at once, and the whole group meets back in the lounge afterwards to compare times and argue about which room was harder. That last twenty minutes is reliably the best part of the visit, and it only happens if the group played separately.

It is also the venue with the shortest trip from the city, which is why it takes most of our corporate work.

Booking for a big group

Each room holds two to six players, so six rooms means up to 36 people playing at the same time, and larger numbers again if you run back-to-back waves across the evening. No other escape room venue in our network comes close, and few in Melbourne do.

How it works in practice:

One practical note that saves a lot of grief: groups of four to six in a room work better than groups of two or three for most people. A six-player room with two people in it is a much harder hour, and a six-player room with six people in it is a party. The exception is our five out of five rooms, which are at Chadstone and cap at four deliberately.

Parties, celebrations and work groups

Kids birthdays. Cluemanji and Monsterz are the two rooms with nothing frightening in them at all. For a party spanning a wide age range, run those alongside Game of the Dragon for the older kids, who will enjoy being told their room was harder. Full detail on the kids birthday page.

Corporate and team building. Start with Secret Agent Man. The mission structure gives everyone a role without assigning one, the countdown creates genuine urgency, and nobody has to opt out on nerves, which matters more in a work group than any other kind. If the team is large, split across rooms of similar difficulty so the comparison at the end is fair. See the team building page for formats and rates.

Hens, bucks and milestones. Six rooms means a group can split by appetite rather than by argument. See hens, bucks and milestone celebrations.

Schools. South Yarra takes the largest school groups in the network because of the back-to-back wave structure. Details, pricing and the compliance paperwork are on the school excursions page.

Not sure yet? A gift voucher lets the recipient pick the room and the time, which solves the problem of buying an experience for somebody whose tolerance for being frightened you do not know.

Accessibility, and what to tell us

Tell us at check-in, or before you book if it will affect which room you choose. We can brief a player on what is coming, keep the lights higher, drop the volume, or have your games master stay in closer contact through the game. It costs nothing to ask and it is far better than pushing through a bad hour.

Things worth knowing across the venue:

Nothing depends on English fluency. Our puzzles are built on symbols, patterns, objects, numbers and physical logic rather than reading and wordplay, in all sixteen rooms. A group with mixed English plays on equal footing.

No live actors, anywhere. Not in one of our rooms, at any venue, in any season including Halloween. Nothing chases you, nothing touches you, and you are never locked in. The door is unlocked in every room and you can step out at any second.

Companion Card holders play free, and we have adapted rooms for Deaf and Auslan groups, blind and low vision players and players with intellectual disabilities since 2016. Call us on 03 9972 8021 or email southyarra@rushescapegame.com.au and we will tell you honestly what a specific room is like, including when the answer is that a different room would suit better.

Where we draw from

Rush South Yarra is at 160 Toorak Road, entered via 147 Osborne Street, about two minutes from South Yarra Station and a short walk from the Chapel Street end of town.

It is the closest venue in our network to the Melbourne CBD, and the most common trip is a tram or a five-minute train ride from Flinders Street. Beyond that we take a lot of bookings from Prahran, Windsor, Toorak, Armadale, Malvern, Richmond, Cremorne, South Melbourne, Albert Park, Port Melbourne, Middle Park, St Kilda, Elwood, Hawksburn and the inner south east, plus anyone in the city after an evening that does not involve a bar.

If you are coming from the east or the bayside suburbs, Hawthorn and St Kilda may be a shorter trip, and if you are in the south east, Chadstone has parking on site.

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