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Buried Alive is a two-player horror escape room by Escape This. Each of you wakes in a separate wooden coffin, buried by a villain called the Undertaker, and the pair of you have 60 minutes to solve your way out. It is strictly 18+ and plays at Escape This Northbridge in Perth and Escape This Sydney CBD.
No. Buried Alive has two coffins and each one holds a single player, so you and your partner start the game apart. Players say that brief feeling of being on your own in the dark is the scariest part, and the puzzles only fall when both of you pull together.
Yes: Asylum. Buried Alive’s original site names Asylum as its sequel, another extreme horror room that pushes further into madness. Asylum plays at both Buried Alive venues, Escape This Northbridge and Escape This Sydney CBD, so the two can be booked back to back.
Each Buried Alive coffin measures 200 cm long, 70 cm wide and 50 cm deep. That leaves room to lie down and move your arms, but not to sit up. Escape This advises anyone taller than 6′5″ (about 196 cm) not to play.
Very. Escape This bills Buried Alive as Australia’s most extreme escape experience: you are sealed in a coffin in near-total darkness, with flashing light and jump scares possible. It is meant to frighten. If you are unsure whether you can handle it, Escape This’s own advice is not to play it.
Buried Alive is rated 8 out of 10, among the hardest grades Escape This uses. The puzzles are complex in their own right, and working them lying down, in the dark and apart from your partner adds pressure. The gamesmaster still sends hints whenever you ask.
No. Escape This doesn’t recommend Buried Alive for first-timers, because the intensity can overwhelm people who haven’t played a standard room yet. Start with a lighter adventure, such as Pirates or The Wizard’s Chamber, and come back to the coffins once you know how escape rooms work.
Up to 60 minutes. Arrive 15 minutes early for lockers and the briefing, and allow about 15 minutes afterwards to steady your nerves, so a Buried Alive visit runs to roughly 90 minutes. Pairs who dig out early leave sooner.
Buried Alive costs $59 per player Monday to Thursday and $65 per player Friday to Sunday, at both Northbridge and Sydney CBD. Since every booking is two people, that is $118 or $130 for the pair. Sydney’s listed prices exclude public and school holidays.
Online is quickest: choose Northbridge or Sydney CBD on this site’s booking page, pick a free session and Buried Alive is confirmed instantly. You can also call (08) 6118 0286 for Northbridge or (02) 9173 8535 for Sydney CBD.
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18. Buried Alive is strictly adults-only at every venue, with no exceptions, and staff may check ID if you look young. Under-18s cannot play or come in as spectators.
Exactly two. Buried Alive has two single-person coffins, so it is never played by one person or by three. Each booking is one pair.
Experienced escapers who are relaxed about their own self-preservation. Escape This made Buried Alive for players who have tried everything else and want more, and its advice to anyone hesitating is simple: if you are unsure, don’t play.
No. Buried Alive is designed to induce claustrophobia: you lie in a closed coffin roughly half a metre deep, often in the dark. Escape This tells anyone with claustrophobia or a strong aversion to enclosed spaces not to play it.
Press the panic button. Buried Alive has panic buttons for leaving early, both coffins are on CCTV the entire time, and a gamesmaster will get you out. Nobody is trapped for real.
Buried Alive plays in Perth at Escape This Northbridge, 48 Lake Street, where the room first opened, and in Sydney at Escape This Sydney CBD, 630 George Street. A third set of coffins opens at Escape This Melbourne CBD in March 2027.
1 March 2027. Buried Alive is coming to Escape This Melbourne CBD at 259 Collins Street, the venue where Asylum, its sequel, already plays. Prices and session times will be released when bookings open; until then it runs in Perth and Sydney.
47% of the 2,490 pairs who have been buried in Buried Alive made it out inside the hour. By venue: 38% at Northbridge and 60% at Sydney CBD.
Players say so: Buried Alive averages 4.97 out of 5, and 244 pairs have left five stars. They write about racing hearts, being restrained and separated in the dark, and gamesmasters who set the mood before the lids close.
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A comic, fictional work log that Escape This writes for the website in the voice of Horace, the night groundskeeper who looks after the Undertaker’s two plots and finds them dug up from the inside every morning. Horace and his cat are invented for the diary and don’t appear in the room. It is safe for work; Buried Alive itself is strictly 18+.
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