In short: Every answer about Zombie Apocalypse, Escape This’s zombie-laboratory escape room: the outbreak, difficulty, prices in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne, the 2–4 player limit, the strict 15+ rule, safety and records.
Zombie Apocalypse is a 60-minute horror escape room by Escape This, set in an abandoned laboratory after the undead have overrun the world. One infected test subject is pacing inside a failing containment chamber, and your team of two to four has to finish the cure before the power gives out. It plays in Northbridge (Perth), Sydney CBD and Melbourne CBD, and the infection spreads to Brisbane CBD in the first half of 2027.
No. In Zombie Apocalypse your first job is keeping the creature locked up. The lab only lets your team leave once the subject is secured in its containment chamber, so the hour is spent saving the lab rather than running from it.
It is the lab’s last surviving test subject. In Zombie Apocalypse the scientists fled when a horde broke in, leaving this one infected patient sealed behind a few inches of steel and glass. You hear it snarling and pacing for the whole hour.
A virus had already wiped out most of humanity, and this lab was the final serious push for a cure. Its experiments created something more dangerous than the disease, then the horde breached the building and the staff ran. Zombie Apocalypse starts in the deserted lab with the cure half made.
Yes, that is the mission. Zombie Apocalypse asks your team to stabilise the lab’s volatile bio-tech, synthesise the antidote and administer it before containment fails. Sample stations, dosage controls and racks of glowing vials all feed into that one goal.
They are exactly who Escape This recommends Zombie Apocalypse for, along with film and sci-fi lovers. The room shares the end-of-the-world dread of those stories, but the fight happens inside a lab: you are trying to cure the infection, not outrun it.
Zombie Apocalypse is rated 7 out of 10. The clues around the lab are usually easy to spot, but making sense of them takes real thinking. Escape This aims it at players who have done an escape room before, while keen beginners are still welcome to try.
Yes, if you are happy to be stretched. First-time players find Zombie Apocalypse demanding, yet it is still a common pick for a first escape room. Your gamesmaster can hand out extra clues whenever the team stalls.
Very — it is designed to scare. Zombie Apocalypse combines darkness, flashing light, theatrical smoke and possible jump scares with a snarling subject behind the glass all hour. Anyone nervous can talk it through with the team before booking.
Sixty minutes inside Zombie Apocalypse. Add 15 minutes before for the briefing and about 15 after to catch your breath, so the visit takes up to 90 minutes, or a little less if your cure works early.
You ask for help. A gamesmaster follows every Zombie Apocalypse session and can send hints or clues whenever your team is stuck, so one stubborn puzzle won’t sink the cure.
Zombie Apocalypse is a compact lab built around a single containment chamber, so Escape This caps every session at four. It is company policy not to bend group limits, which keeps each player busy with the puzzles instead of waiting their turn.
Zombie Apocalypse is priced per player. Northbridge: $49 Monday–Thursday, $59 Friday–Sunday. Sydney CBD: $55 Monday–Thursday, $65 Friday–Sunday. Both exclude public and school holidays. Melbourne CBD: $55 off-peak and $65 peak. Every player is 15 or older, so there is no child rate.
Online is quickest: the booking page lists every open Zombie Apocalypse slot in Northbridge, Sydney and Melbourne, and a slot is yours as soon as you pay. Prefer a person? Northbridge is (08) 6118 0286, Sydney (02) 9173 8535 and Melbourne (03) 7078 8118.
Split the group. Zombie Apocalypse never takes more than four, so book a second room for the same start time with Escape This’s multi-room booker. For work teams and bigger parties, Escape This’s team-building hub plans whole-venue events.
Never. Every Zombie Apocalypse booking is private, so the only survivors in the lab are the ones you bring.
Yes. Escape This gift vouchers can be used for Zombie Apocalypse and are sold on escapethis.com.au, which makes them an easy gift for a horror fan aged 15 or over.
Yes. Two is the minimum for Zombie Apocalypse at every venue, and with a cap of four the lab is built for small teams, so a pair is never short of things to do.
Fifteen, with no exceptions. Zombie Apocalypse is a strict 15+ room at Northbridge, Sydney CBD and Melbourne CBD, and staff may check ID from anyone who looks younger.
No. Escape This doesn’t admit children to Zombie Apocalypse as players or as spectators, even with a parent, so anyone under 15 needs other plans for the hour.
Two to four. Zombie Apocalypse takes at least two and no more than four players at all three venues, and that limit is fixed.
At least one of you does. Zombie Apocalypse needs moderate English reading and its story and clues are spoken in English. Escape This says one confident reader is enough to take part, though its FAQ suggests most of the group be fluent for the best game.
Yes, with teammates helping. Narration and clues in Zombie Apocalypse are audio, so others pass on what is said, while the puzzles call on a wide mix of skills.
In Sydney, yes: the Sydney CBD lab takes one wheelchair per session, though a few puzzles are harder from a seat. Northbridge is not accessible. escapethis.com.au doesn’t say either way for Melbourne, so call (03) 7078 8118 before booking Zombie Apocalypse there.
Yes. Theatrical smoke hangs in the Zombie Apocalypse lab, so players with asthma or another breathing condition should think twice before booking.
There is no crawling and nothing tight to squeeze through, and Escape This lists Zombie Apocalypse as suitable for claustrophobic players. The Melbourne lab is a smaller space overall, and the general safety notes mention possible confined spaces, so ask if you’re unsure.
Usually, yes. Zombie Apocalypse has no crawling or tight spaces, and the Northbridge and Sydney pages call it a good choice. Melbourne warns anyone heavily pregnant or with a pacemaker about its jump scares.
It isn’t recommended. Zombie Apocalypse uses flashing lights and periods of darkness, and Escape This advises light-sensitive and epileptic players to choose another room.
Press a panic button. Zombie Apocalypse has panic buttons for leaving early and is watched on CCTV the whole time, so nobody is stuck in the lab against their will.
Fifteen minutes before your session. That covers the Zombie Apocalypse briefing, so your 60 minutes with the subject start on time.
Save them for afterwards. Escape This turns away any player who shows up to Zombie Apocalypse affected by alcohol or drugs.
If anyone in your team might look under 15, yes. Staff can ask for ID before letting players into Zombie Apocalypse, and nobody younger than 15 is allowed in.
Whatever you can move in. Zombie Apocalypse needs no costume, though a lab coat or a survivor’s flannel adds to the mood, and comfortable shoes help over an hour on your feet.
Perth, Sydney and Melbourne. The Zombie Apocalypse labs are inside Escape This Northbridge on Lake Street, Escape This Sydney CBD on George Street and Escape This Melbourne CBD on Collins Street. The room doesn’t run at Perth CBD or Manly. A Brisbane lab is next, due at Escape This Brisbane CBD in the first half of 2027.
No. In Perth, Zombie Apocalypse plays only at Escape This Northbridge on Lake Street, in the entertainment and nightlife precinct near Perth train station. The old zombieapocalypse.com.au pointed to Perth CBD and Manly as well, but the room isn’t at either.
Not in Northbridge: that Zombie Apocalypse lab isn’t wheelchair accessible. Escape This has other accessible experiences and its team can help you choose one, or you can play Zombie Apocalypse at Sydney CBD, which takes one wheelchair per session.
Plenty of horror. Escape This Northbridge also runs The Haunting, Cannibal, Dracula, Buried Alive, The Possession, Asylum and Frankenstein Resurrection. The Haunting takes four to twelve players, so it suits a group too big for Zombie Apocalypse.
Yes. The Sydney CBD lab takes one wheelchair per session. A few Zombie Apocalypse puzzles are harder to reach from a seated position, and the rest of the team can cover those.
Melbourne CBD prices each Zombie Apocalypse session as peak or off-peak: $55 per player off-peak and $65 at peak times. The booking calendar shows the price beside every slot before you pay.
40% of the 2,611 teams who have faced Zombie Apocalypse secured the subject before time ran out. By venue: Northbridge 33%, Sydney CBD 66%, Melbourne CBD 66%.
The Zombie Apocalypse record is 24:25, set by a team of 4 at Escape This Northbridge with 0 clues, leaving 35:35 on the clock.
Measured by lowest escape rate, Zombie Apocalypse is 4th hardest of 9 at Escape This Northbridge; 3rd hardest of 9 at Escape This Sydney CBD; the hardest of 4 at Escape This Melbourne CBD. Only rooms with at least 100 recorded games are ranked.
Teams that cure the subject in Zombie Apocalypse take 49:20 on average and use 3 clues along the way.
This year 49% of Zombie Apocalypse teams have finished the cure, against 40% across every game on record.
Zombie Apocalypse averages 4.96 out of 5 across Northbridge, Sydney and Melbourne, with 182 five-star reviews from survivors. Reviewers mention genuine scares, clever puzzles and how different it feels from other escape rooms.
Escape This designed and built Zombie Apocalypse itself, as it does every room it runs. Escape This is Australia’s largest escape room operator, with its own escape room design studio and escape room factory.
A comic, made-up notebook kept by Dr Morrow, the scientist who ran the abandoned lab in Zombie Apocalypse and now hides in its storeroom, watching teams finish her cure on the cameras. Each note grumbles about a real part of the game, such as the 15+ rule, the haze or the four-player limit, and sits beside the real room facts and a booking link.
No. The Zombie Apocalypse story says the lab’s scientists fled when the horde broke in; Dr Morrow is Escape This’s invention for this notebook, imagining that one of them never left the building. She, her storeroom and her name for the test subject, Gerald, exist only in the notes. The facts beside each note, such as ages and team sizes, are real.
Not a drop of it. Dr Morrow talks about her vials, her chamber and her subject in the same broad strokes as the Zombie Apocalypse story, but she never writes down a step, an answer or where anything is kept. Your team can read every note and still walk into the lab knowing nothing useful.
The openings. According to Escape This’s booking records, Zombie Apocalypse first ran at Escape This Perth CBD from 18 January 2024 to July 2024, opened at Escape This Northbridge on 31 May 2024, at Sydney CBD on 31 October 2025 and at Melbourne CBD on 28 August 2026, and Dr Morrow’s notes for those days carry those dates. Every other date is the story’s own.
Roughly monthly. New Lab Notes appear on their dates through 2027, each on a different part of Zombie Apocalypse, from arrival times and English reading to panic buttons, wheelchair access and the Brisbane lab, so there’s usually a fresh note from Dr Morrow when you come back.
Book Zombie Apocalypse in Perth, Sydney or Melbourne. Two to four of you, one subject, sixty minutes of power.
