The world belongs to the undead now. In an abandoned laboratory, one infected test subject paces behind failing steel and glass, and the cure it was meant to prove sits unfinished. Finish it before the power dies.
In short: In Zombie Apocalypse a virus has turned most of the world, and the last lab chasing a cure has been abandoned after a horde breach. One test subject remains in a failing containment chamber. Your team must stabilise the bio-tech and administer the cure before the lab’s power runs out.
A virus went through the cities first, then the towns. By the time anyone understood it, most of the world had stopped being human.
One laboratory kept going. Its scientists were close, closer than anyone, to a cure. Their last experiments didn’t give them one; they gave them something far more dangerous, held in place by an experimental containment chamber.
Then the horde breached the building. The staff ran, and the lab went dark around the one subject they couldn’t take with them.
Now you are inside, sealed in the very room that houses that chamber. A few inches of steel and glass separate you from what’s inside, and the power keeping it shut is running out.
Stabilise the bio-tech, synthesise the cure and administer it. Only when the subject is secured does the door let you go. You have one hour.
A few inches of steel and glass. Not for long.
Zombie Apocalypse is a working laboratory: sample stations, dosage controls, glowing vials and warning signs, all arranged around the containment chamber at the heart of the room. It is a horror game first, with sci-fi machinery doing the talking.
Photographs and film stills from the Zombie Apocalypse set.
Every vial, warning sign and control panel in Zombie Apocalypse was designed and built by Escape This, then installed in Northbridge, Sydney CBD and Melbourne CBD.
Escape This builds its rooms to movie-set standard. Here that means riveted steel panels, glowing readouts and a containment chamber that sounds very much occupied.
No costume is needed to face the subject. If your team wants to commit, a white lab coat or a survivor’s battered flannel suits the room, and comfortable shoes suit an hour on your feet.
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.
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.
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.
Book Zombie Apocalypse in Perth, Sydney or Melbourne. Two to four of you, one subject, sixty minutes of power.
