Toulouse's best escape games

“Escape game”, “escape room”… It's all very mysterious! The principle is simple: You are locked in a room and you have an hour of play to manage to escape. After that, everything is allowed: Themes, universes, stories, role plays and scenarios... There are endless possibilities for games! The objective is to make you travel mentally...

It's cold, it's raining, you don't want to go outside? If you are looking for an original, intellectual and fun activity to share a good time with friends or family, this game is for you. Toulouse is a dynamic city that knows how to "keep up to date". The escape game is one of the trendy outings of the moment. So to find the "game" that suits you, we take a tour of the Toulouse possibilities.

The escape game, how does it work?

 This life-size escape game, born in 2007 in Japan, is a physical and real version of "escape the room" video games. Since its creation, it has been very fashionable and is spreading everywhere... Especially in big cities, where you will find a wide choice of themes and rooms, missions, original roles...

Concretely, a room, a house, a park ... is arranged according to a theme: fiction, horror, history, cinema... An atmosphere is planned to "get you in the mood". A scenario is designed in incremental stages to make sense of your investigation. Your "game master" will follow you step by step throughout this story, to assist you in the event of a problem or a blockage in the game.

All you have to do is free your mind and let yourself be carried away, until the ultimate goal: succeed in escaping from this game! It is a very immersive experience, intellectually liberating and often used for team cohesion.

Escape rooms

• In Toulouse, Tactisens offers you two games on the theme of science. The first is an escape room, against a background of scientific investigation , the other is a sensory adventure.
  

• Escape Game Toulouse takes you through four scenarios that will appeal to your composure, between police investigation and horror scenes.

• Hinthunt gives you an atypical experience : immersing yourself in a submarine... Interesting puzzles, you have 60 minutes to get out and you can even go with your family! Cool "gameMasters" to guide you during your adventure, a little but not too much, just enough to keep the suspense at its peak...
  

• With two Escape rooms and a treasure hunt in the Pink City, in the heart of the Esquirol district and not far from the Capitol, First Clue takes you on a journey through time, from the past to the future! A new scenario has just arrived this year, you are plunged into 2853, an attack is imminent, will you take part in the galactic resistance?
  

• Get Out is an Escape Game, which makes you step into the shoes of a private detective or a police investigator, you just have to choose your crime to solve... Become a detective!
  

• In the LockAcademy , you must protect the students of this elite school from future detectives...

• At Next reality, between bank robbery and bacteriological threat, you go from hero to criminal! With a setting to perfection, which immerses you in the world of a film to give you the chills, you left for 60 minutes of total immersion... 2 rooms available with different scenarios, accessible to offer fun to all!
  

• Tourbillon escape is located in Aigues-Vives. There you will find four cinema-themed escape rooms: the Butcher, Wanted, Bloc E, the Clown. These 4 rooms have a totally different universe, the sets are well thought out and immersive and special attention is paid by the GameMaster to make you experience a real change of scenery and unique each time!
  
  

• In Labège, Enigmatic live escape game offers you many universes and virtual reality.

• Enigma escape offers you no less than seven different worlds to discover over 750 m², on two sites in Toulouse.  
• At the Adventure rooms Toulouse, the scenarios are accessible to all ages! This is a good opportunity to introduce children to the escape game and share this original activity with the family.

• In Escape Hunt, you have several puzzles to solve, between past and future.

Outdoor escape games

A new variant of the escape game is developing: “The urbangame”. It's a slightly different concept that looks more like a treasure hunt, in the heart of a city. The themes are as varied as for the escape room, but the playground is much bigger! It's a good way to learn, while having fun and discovering Toulouse in a different way. In addition, they are suitable for the whole family!

• Mysterius escape has a horror classified room. Above all, it offers several urbangames: treasure hunts over different distances.

• In the same category, Granhota is a city game that takes place like a circuit of discovery. Go as a team (from 15 years old) in the streets of Toulouse. Put your neurons into action, to observe, move, change your points of view and focus your attention on the right details to solve the puzzles. A word of advice, go with good shoes and your camera!

Photo Granhota

• Hunting-town goes even further: directions are sent by video to your phone and you wear a GoPro to immortalize your adventure!

• The SHERCH Investigation Bureau allows you to exonerate an innocent person! It's up to you to play to restore the truth...

If you have not yet found what you are looking for, the site: Escapegame.fr lists 112 stores in Occitanie!

Come on, this article is finished. We set you free! You just have to choose your theme and the "crime scene" to make your brain work at full speed.

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Article written by Stéphanie Tempier for the Toulouse Pyrénées Guide.