The Family

Family record · Forty-Eight

Forty-Eight

Also known as

48 Lake Street, Northbridge · The first venue · The narrator

Current status

Creaking contentedly, nine rooms full

First seen

Heritage-listed, more than a century old (on the record)

Motto

“I was here first. I will be here last. Wipe your feet.”

Fan rating

A heritage-listed building on Lake Street in Northbridge, more than a hundred years old, and Escape This’s very first venue. These are its memoirs.

Forty-Eight has housed vampires, ghosts, a cannibal, an undertaker and one pirate who never quite fitted in. It is fond of all of them. It is fonder of being the original, and it would like everyone to remember that.

Known for: Being first · Creaking on cue · Its horror rooms

Read its memoirs →

Family record · The Basement

The Basement

Also known as

Escape This Perth CBD · Under Hay Street Mall · The younger sibling

Current status

Showing off its pirate ship again

First seen

First rooms on the books, September 2021 (on the record)

Motto

“Bigger, brighter, family-friendly. And closer to the shops.”

Fan rating

Forty-Eight’s younger sibling, five to ten minutes’ walk away under Hay Street Mall, with the adventure rooms: pirates, pyramids, a bank vault and a Wild West gaol.

The Basement has more rooms, more daylight shoppers walking overhead and, Forty-Eight suspects, a better publicist. They write to each other. The letters are not always kind.

Known for: Adventures, not horror · Taking Forty-Eight’s pirates · Its letters

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Family record · Manly

Manly

Also known as

Escape This Manly · The Corso · The one by the beach

Current status

Shaking sand out of the doormat

First seen

First rooms on the books, July 2022 (on the record)

Motto

“Sunshine, salt and a magic school. What’s not to love?”

Fan rating

The family member who arrived from Sydney already grown up: Escape This Manly, on The Corso by the beach, was Room Eight Escape Rooms before it joined the family.

Forty-Eight thinks of Manly as the cousin who married in and keeps posting beach photos. It is, however, a little jealous of the sea view.

Known for: The beach · Joining the family · Sand in everything

Family record · George Street

George Street

Also known as

Escape This Sydney CBD · The big-city cousin

Current status

Being very important

First seen

First rooms on the books, August 2024 (on the record)

Motto

“If you can escape here, you can escape anywhere.”

Fan rating

Escape This Sydney CBD, on George Street in the middle of Australia’s biggest city. It took copies of some of Forty-Eight’s favourite tenants, including Cannibal and The Possession.

Forty-Eight was flattered, then furious, then flattered again. It has decided that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and that Sydney’s ghosts are not as good at creaking.

Known for: Copying Northbridge’s horror · Big-city crowds · Taking itself seriously

Family record · Collins Street

Collins Street

Also known as

Escape This Melbourne CBD · The new baby

Current status

Still unpacking

First seen

First rooms on the books, August 2026 (on the record)

Motto

“Fashionably late. It’s a Melbourne thing.”

Fan rating

The newest sibling, at 259 Collins Street in Melbourne, which opened in 2026 and soon had pirates, a magic university and a vampire hunter called Van Helsing.

Forty-Eight is proud, protective and only slightly put out that the baby got Dracula’s nemesis before Lake Street did. It sends advice nobody asked for.

Known for: Van Helsing · Being new · Ignoring advice

Family record · Brisbane

Brisbane

Also known as

Escape This Brisbane CBD · Not born yet

Current status

Expected in the first half of 2027

First seen

Announced by Escape This (on the record)

Motto

“(Nothing yet. Forty-Eight has already bought it a jumper.)”

Fan rating

The next sibling, which Escape This has announced for Brisbane in the first half of 2027.

Forty-Eight has opinions about what Brisbane should be like, a list of rules it intends to pass on, and a strong feeling that the family is growing very fast.

Known for: Not existing yet · Already being told what to do