Buried Alive by the numbers and the rules, cross-checked with Escape This’s live booking and game records. Last updated 26 October 2026.
In short: Buried Alive in brief: two coffins, two players, 18+ only, plus the live escape rates, ratings and rankings from Northbridge and Sydney CBD.
Statistics come from the Escape This ER-OS game records and player reviews, and refresh automatically. Please cite as: “Buried Alive — fact sheet”, buriedalive.com.au/facts/, October 2026. A plain-text version is at /llms.txt.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A team of 2 holds the Buried Alive record: out of the coffins at Escape This Sydney CBD in 27:54, using 0 clues, with 32:06 of air to spare.
Close to it. Measured by escape rate (fewest pairs getting out), at Escape This Northbridge it has the 4th-lowest escape rate of 9 rooms (38%), and at Escape This Sydney CBD it has the 2nd-lowest escape rate of 9 rooms (60%).
Escape This designed and built Buried Alive itself, coffins and all, and first opened it at Escape This Northbridge. Escape This is Australia’s largest escape room operator, with its own escape room design studio and escape room factory.
