The escape room industry grew at a rate of 11% from 2020 to 2024. Businesses in the sector earn $50,000 to $125,000 annually.

The rise in themed escape rooms is helping to drive this trend. It gives them a focus and makes them an unforgettable experience.

Read on to learn about five unique escape room themes to try.

1. Adventure

Movies like Indiana Jones and video games like Overwatch focus on adventurers. They get your heart pumping as you wait to see if the hero can escape danger.

Adventures are also great escape room themes. They get your adrenaline up as you try to solve puzzles in time.

Raider's Revenge

Our Raider's Revenge room takes you deep into the jungle to explore ruins. An experienced adventurer named Itzel is your only guide.

You're searching for the Idol of Cosmos hidden somewhere within an ancient temple. Can you find it and grab hold of its untold power? Can you decipher the cryptic symbols in the ruins and outwit its traps before you become lost in the jungle forever?

2. Pirates

Actors know the immersiveness of playing a character. Many of the most immersive game themes let you do just that. You're not only invested in solving the puzzle for yourself. You also begin to care for the character.

Character-based escape rooms are also great team bonding activities. If everyone plays along, they'll have a wonderful time together.

Pirates are one of the most beloved character types of all time That's why they can be the center of many great escape room themes.

Scallywag

Our Scallywag room puts you as part of a pirate crew. You come upon an abandoned vessel.

As you approach it, you can see its name in the distance; The Sunken Jewels. Every pirate knows the legends that say Captain Calico buried his treasures there.

Unravel the ship's secrets and claim its treasures as quickly as you can. Otherwise, you'll be capsized by the raging storm coming in and lost at sea forever.

Mutiny

In our Mutiny room, there's a different type of storm a-brewin' amongst your pirate crew. You've begun to realize Captain Pilfer isn't giving you a fair share of the booty, and you won't stand for it.

The Captain's gone ashore to rest before heading back to sea. You only have a short time to take what's yours from his quarters before he returns to the ship. If he discovers the mutiny, he'll surely make you walk the plank!

3. Magic

Magical worlds or characters allow for creative escape puzzles.

They also have the same benefits as pirate adventures. Who hasn't wanted to be a wizard once or twice?

Wizard Hysteria

In our Wizard Hysteria room, your group becomes classmates at a magical academy. The Dark Wizard has returned and began to fight against you.

A prophecy dictates that there is only one way to stop him. You must combine six enchanted artifacts hidden within the Academy's walls. You have to defeat him before he destroys everything.

Enchanter's Curse

In our Enchanter's Curse room, a legion of sorcerors has begun to attack the castle. You are part of the local Magic Academy's student council.

You know that an Enchanter foresaw this day. They hid five magical artifacts with the power to defeat the evil. You need to find them all to save the academy and the wizarding world.

4. Horror

Horror rooms may not seem like the most unique escape room experiences, but the genre is only a baseline. It can be built on in many unique ways.

It also has the same adrenaline-building effect as adventure rooms. Nothing encourages you to finish challenging escape adventures than a monster chasing you!

Zombie Fallout

In our Zombie Fallout room, a zombie virus has begun to spread. As time passes, the creatures have become faster and more hostile.

The government chose your group to stop the virus. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to infiltrate a military base that's overrun by zombies. Find a functioning fuse there and return to the last surviving base before you're eaten alive.

Chloe

Our Chloe room combines elements of horror and mystery. Your group is looking into the disappearance of a little girl named Chloe.

You examine the house of a notorious serial killer who you believe is connected to the case. It soon becomes clear that Chloe's spirit is there and wants you out.

The only way to exorcise her is to find five totems. The longer you stay, the more enraged Chloe becomes.

5. Prison Escape

Bureau of Justice statistics say that the U.S. prison population is over 1,231,000. Prisons are immersive escape room options because they're the one place everyone wants to escape from.

Areas around the prison are also effective. What about trying to elude guards outside or even on the bus to the prison itself?

The Row

The Row adds more immediate danger to a typical prison escape room. You're not only trying to escape prison. You're trying to escape death row before your time is up.

Another twist is that you'll have to sacrifice one of your team members. They'll have to go in the electric chair to create a power surge large enough for the rest of you to leave. Who's willing to make such a sacrifice?

Prison Bus Escape

Our Prison Bus Escape takes place on a real bus instead of a single room. It's not like the big yellow buses you rode to school on. It's taking you and your group to Alcatraz.

There is a way out. You have help from a member of Al Capone's inner circle. An accomplice on the outside started a riot to distract the guards.

That doesn't mean getting out will be easy. You'll have to solve elaborate puzzles as quickly as possible to escape.

Experience Our Unique Escape Room Themes

Unique escape room themes, such as adventure, pirates, magic, horror, or prison escape, make your experience more immersive and engaging.

Alcatraz Escape Rooms was voted Utah's best escape room experience. We have locations in Draper and Lindon. Contact us to book one of our unique themed rooms today.