Heres’s a small but delicious selection of new escape rooms in the summer lull for August’s update, with some early Halloween scares coming available.

ICYMI, the ‘live magic’ version of Loudini is closing at the end of October – it’s one of the UK’s very highest rated games, so if you haven’t played it, see if you can snap up a slot while you still can!

Greater London

🔒 The newest game from Kingston Escape Rooms is Quack Academy, with a delightfully original theme: you’re attempting to pass the final exam in a veterinary training school.

🎃 Room Lockdown Hornchurch’s Halloween room for 2026 is The Halloween Invitation, available from mid-Sept.

🎭 More horror from Screamworks, who are taking bookings for ‘live actor Halloween walkthrough experience’ Hell’s Waiting Room from 23 Oct; if you want to catch their existing horror experience Granny, it’s due to close at the end of Sept.

South East England

🔒 Hastings gains a new escape company: Unlocked Escape Rooms launched with Virus: Containment Protocol, a race against time to prevent a synthetic virus getting loose.

🔒 A more family-friendly type of spookiness from Eastbourne Escape Rooms, who’ve opened The Spooky Stay, a darkly humorous gothic mystery, based at The Lansdowne Hotel not their main venue.

Also new, from last month’s update:
🎄 Mythologic Escape Rooms (Gillingham): The Grunch
🔒 Tulleys Escape Rooms & Games (Crawley): Relic

Last call for:
❗️ The Lift (Brighton): Lock and Rock (closing 05 Sep)

🙌 And great news for anyone who wanted to get to The Escapement before it closed and didn’t have a chance to do so – in a last-minute turn-around they’ve found new owners, meaning the venue will remain open after all.

South West England

🔒 One for those with kids: Little Escapes opened in Taunton, specialising in escape rooms for children and families. The Adventures of Pixie Hollow is their first game, designed for ages 6-12 plus their families.

🔒 Heritage rail company West Somerset Railway now offer an escape room inside Bishops Lydeard Station, called A Ticket to Nowhere, built in collaboration with Escape from the Room.

🔒 11th Hour Escape Rooms is back open, at their new location in Melksham, with a brand new movie-themed room called Director’s Cut. They’ll also be bringing back pirate game Avast Fortune from Sept.

Also new, from last month’s update:
🔒 Escape The Game (Bovey Tracey): The Funfair Fix

West Midlands

🎭 Courtyard Escapes in Stourbridge opened an outdoor city-trail experience, The Voyage of Captain Plank.

East Midlands

🔒 Dr Trilby’s Escape Rooms is now open in Daventry, with three games: Jo-Jo’s Jungle Rescue, Murder Case: The Accused, and Zone 13: The Zombie Trap; and a fourth room under construction.

🔒 Cyber-Heist is the newest room at Rush Hour Escape Rooms in Spalding, and it’s a race for nuclear blueprints with cyberpunk stylings.

Last call for:
❗️ Escapologist (Cleethorpes): closing 30 Sep.

East of England

🔒 Great Escapists at Royston Museum now offer a second game, prohibition-themed The Brewer; this is a mobile game available to book for events.

🎭 Pier Pressure’s Welwyn branch launched a 2 hour city trail game called The Seven Seals.

North West England

🔒 Contained Liverpool opened new experience Vampire Hunters; the company is known for horror, but this is a family-friendly game with a scare rating of 1/5.

🔒 Pun of the month goes to Escapism Chester for their new submarine versus Kraken game: Squid Happens. 🐙

🔒 Breakout Liverpool opened the company’s Stranger Things inspired room Upsidedown, also available at their other branches.

Last call for:
❗️ Escapable (Wakefield): The Great Loudini – Live Magic & Puzzles (closing 31 Oct)

Scotland

From last month’s update:
🔒 Jedburgh Castle Jail and Museum: Unsolved: The Malcolm Munro Case

Northern Ireland

Last call for:
❗️ Tactixs (Derry/Londonderry): Escape The Leprechaun’s Last Laugh (closing 13 Sep)