Homemade Escape Room: 10 Easy Steps to Make it Happen!

Are you planning a homemade escape room but don’t know where to start? Fear not, we, who are experts in this field, will give you some information.

If you have already taken a tour of our website you will surely know how good and beautiful our experiences are, being suitable for the young and old, and you can try your hand at puzzles never tried before while having fun from the comfort of home with your friends!

We can definitely tell you that participating in an escape room is truly a unique experience that allows friends and family to come together and collaborate to solve puzzles.

But let’s see in detail how to create a homemade escape room with 10 easy steps!

How to Create a Homemade Escape Room

1. Choose a room in which to set the game: This place must be large enough for players to move around quietly inside. If you want to make the experience more beautiful, you can think of using multiple adjacent rooms that players will gradually have to unlock.
   
2. Choose a theme for the setting: You need to think of something interesting that your players will enjoy. For example, you can use a theme inspired by a book or movie that your team of participants likes. Having done this, you need to find props that fit the theme you have chosen. For example, if you have decided on a horror theme you can recreate a haunted house or use an investigative theme such as Sherlock Holmes.
   
3. Establish a time limit: If you are just starting out and are not very experienced you could set 30 minutes as a time limit to complete the game, that way you will not have too much pressure in creating the room. Or you can use the canonical 45-minute limit.
   
   
   
4. Inventing a plot: This obviously has to match the setting you have chosen. You must think of something simple that is easily understood by the players. To make your plot work, you must divide it into parts that can then be tackled by your players. For example, the beginning of a homemade horror escape room might go like this: the players wake up in the room and see satanic symbols on a large poster in front of them…
   
   
   
5. Creating challenges for players: You can create as many as you want, a few or many to make the challenge more complicated! For example, you could have them uncover a code with which to decipher a message from a secret agent to save their lives.
   
6. Using locks for information: If you want to make your homemade escape room more compelling, you can buy combination locks and create a puzzle to open them. For example, you can insert another clue once it is opened.
   
7. You can create an encrypted message: A cipher puzzle might be to create an acrostic where the first letter of each word forms a sentence or name.
   
8. Create the right atmosphere with music: In short, create a playlist that fits the setting and storyline you have chosen. Of course, the volume should not be too loud but should be a pleasant background to make the experience of the homemade escape room realistic.
   
   
   
9. Try the game: An absolute must-do to see if your idea or puzzles work. After organizing the room(s), put music in the background and try to become the players yourself and see if everything is running smoothly or if there are any unclear steps. If the test is successful you are ready to call your players in case it is not, make the appropriate adjustments.
   
10. Explain the rules: Now it’s time for action! Welcome your players like good gamemasters, and explain the rules of the game, after which you can sit back and watch how they behave in the room.

In short, with these 10 simple steps, your homemade escape room will be amazing and you will have a great time.

If you try these steps to make a homemade escape room, let us know how it goes; maybe you could have a future as an escape room owner!