Top-rated, private, in-person escape room experiences.
Top-rated, private, in-person escape room experiences.
Step into Escapology in Downers Grove, Illinois, the live escape game that challenges you and your kids to find clues, decipher codes, and solve puzzles. From team building and birthdays to every special event in between, your group will experience excitement, mystery, and nonstop fun. Downers Grove, Illinois, provides the perfect backdrop for an unforgettable escape room experience.
Escapology Downers Grove, Illinois offers unique, immersive, and always private escape rooms where players are gathered inside a themed room and must complete their mission before time runs out. Stepping inside a live adventure, they must find hidden clues, crack codes, and solve puzzles to make an escape—all in one hour!
Every Escapology game is unique, with its own story and puzzles. Will it be a murder mystery? A daring treasure hunt? The choice is yours.
While you're free to step out at any time, you won't want to because the clock keeps counting down!
You and your group (no strangers, ever) race against time to solve our puzzles as a team. You’ll emerge victorious—or determined to try again!
Uncover your perfect escape adventure.
Host your next group event at Escapology! From team building and birthdays to every special event in between, your group will experience excitement, overcome challenges, and get lost in the mystery—and we’re here to make sure you have nonstop fun.
With our unique kid-friendly game format, younger Escapologists ages 7-14 are empowered and supported to navigate our mysterious worlds with confidence.
Stay informed on new promotions, updates, news, and our latest games.
Check out our most frequently answered questions.
Escapology is the world’s largest and fastest-growing escape room franchise. In our escape games, your team will complete a specific mission in a fully themed, immersive game room - that’s always private for just your group. During your thrilling 60-minute experience, you’ll be immersed in a real-life adventure with fun surprises around every corner. Coming to Escapology means experiencing our premium escape rooms, beautiful lobbies, and 5-star experiences. You’ll find hidden clues, crack codes, solve challenging puzzles… and try to escape before the clock runs out!
Yes. Escapology is proud to provide an experience where everyone can play and escape. Depending on your choice of game, some players may benefit from assistance with certain puzzles. Please contact us with any accessibility-related questions or requests.
You’ll want to allow 90 minutes for your entire experience at Escapology. Please plan to arrive at least 15 minutes before your start time. The game itself lasts 60 minutes (though you might escape sooner than that)! After time runs out, your Game Host will debrief your team and take a complimentary group photo.
For a fully immersive experience, we recommend that you remain in the room until you escape but we understand that you may need to use the restroom or exit the room for another reason. For safety’s sake, all our rooms stay unlocked throughout every game. In the unlikely event of an emergency, you are free to exit at any time.
You can ask your Game Master for as many hints as you need. They’ll be carefully monitoring your group’s progress from Mission Control and can give you hints, nudges, or guidance if you’re stuck and don’t know what to do next.
Escapology is great for large groups, holiday parties, birthday parties, team building events and more. Please contact us to discuss how we can tailor our event packages to your group’s needs.
Click the BOOK NOW button from anywhere on our site to select your nearest Escapology location. You’ll be directed to that location’s list of games. From there, it’s easy to choose and book your escape room. You can also call us if you have questions or want to reserve your game over the phone.
We understand that knowing the difficulty level of our escape room games is important for planning your visit and ensuring you have the best experience. Here is a list of our escape room games along with their respective difficulty levels:
Standard Difficulty:
Antidote, Antidote: Chemical Warfare, Arizona Shootout, Cuban Crisis, Lost City, Saving Santa, Shanghaied, Star Trek Discovery: Damage Control, Star Trek: Quantum Filament, The Code
Moderate Difficulty:
A Pirate’s Curse, Arizona Shootout: Most Wanted, Batman™: The Dark Knight Challenge, Mayday, Scooby Doo™ and The Spooky Castle Adventure, Under Pressure, Vegas Hangover, Who Stole Mona
Challenging Difficulty:
7 Deadly Sins, Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, Budapest Express, Haunted House, Mansion Murder, Narco
As a courtesy to all Escapologists, our games start exactly at their published time. If you arrive late, you can still play for the time remaining in your scheduled 60 minutes. Please plan to arrive at least 20 minutes before your game time so you can check in and get set up for your game to start right on schedule.
You’re welcome to use your cell phone in our lobby during the check-in process. Once it gets close to game time, we’ll show you where you can store your phones while you play. To keep our games fun for everyone and not ruin any puzzle solutions, photography and filming with cell phones, electronic devices, and other outside tools are strictly prohibited in the escape rooms.
No. For everyone’s safety, our escape rooms always remain unlocked. That said, our 5-star rooms are so immersive that you might feel like you’re really locked in. Just know that you’re free to step out at any time.
Come (play) as you are! So you can fully focus on the fun, we do recommend comfortable clothing and footwear.
Gift cards are valid at the venue where the card was purchased. To redeem your gift card, please call the venue to redeem over the phone or book online by choosing the location the gift card was purchased from, and entering the coupon code at checkout.
Participants under 18 years of age, must have a waiver signed by a parent or a legal guardian at the time of their experience. Please CLICK HERE to fill out the waiver prior to the start of the game.
Let us know with the form below