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Have you ever wondered which are the top escape rooms in America? We have, and we searched for you in the top 5 as voted by users!
The escape room business, although it originated in Asia, has had its greatest explosion in the United States where, in the last decade, they have become one of the best-known and best-loved forms of entertainment. They are undoubtedly gaining ground in Europe, but today we want to take you overseas and tell you about the best escape rooms in the United States!
The phenomenon of escape rooms in America was born in 2012: in that year, Kazuya Iwata, a friend of the founder of the very first escape room in the world, decided to bring this new form of entertainment to the American continent and opened, in San Francisco, the Real Escape Game. Once it gained notoriety, it did not take long for groups of enthusiasts to get going, and thus various projects were born in the largest cities in the U.S., from Las Vegas to New York.
The exponential growth of this type of entertainment has also led to increasing sophistication in the construction of escape rooms, so themes and puzzles have been designed with the aim of making the experience fully immersive. Players must have the feeling of living a real adventure, immersing themselves to the fullest. As the phenomenon was born, so was the competition among the various escape room companies: the prize of the most beautiful and most challenging room is certainly a highly coveted achievement.
In this article, we will see which escape rooms in America are competing for the top spot.
The ranking we present is the one compiled by the website ETR (Escape the Room), published in 2020 and referring to the year 2019, which is based on user ratings. In fact, due to the various measures of last year, escape rooms were also closed down, which is why there is currently no more up-to-date data. Let’s get started!
Not only in the U.S. rankings, but this entertainment company is also in the ranking, by ETR, of the top 100 escape rooms in the world! Quite an accomplishment, for the three brothers from Eugene, Oregon, who decided to go into this business. Portal Escape Room offers 7 different adventures, each consisting of multiple game rooms, of medium to medium-high difficulty.
The fourth most popular escape room among users is located in New York:Â Unreal Escapes. Their motto is “The Games Are Real The Experiences Are UNREAL.” A set worthy of Hollywood with the aim of making the line between reality and fiction extremely blurred. Considering the success, I would say they have succeeded!
We move on to Florida, to meet the third-ranked team. The idea of Nexus Escape Room was born from a couple, wife and husband, lovers of puzzles and riddles, who decided to make a game out of their passion. Two escape rooms were available, plus a seasonal one, but they were enough to take the podium!
We will stay in Florida for the second location. Born out of a collaboration between father and son, The Exit Games managed in just a few years to climb the world’s top escape room rankings and win many awards. The success of this project seems to be really that of strong family collaboration, in fact, father and son are both the creators and builders of the two available escape rooms.
Here is unveiled the ‘most beautiful escape room in the U.S.’, located in Houston, Texas. The escape room entitled “The Man From Beyond” has been voted the best in the United States. Quite a record for this entertainment, which combines the experience of investigation with that of theatre, and it is the presence of actors that has led users to like this escape room so much.
This was the list of top 5 escape rooms in America according to the American website ETR.
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