In short: Death Row is a horror escape room Escape This is developing. Your team wakes on the forgotten execution wing of Ironwood Penitentiary, sentenced to the electric chair, and must escape before the Keeper throws the switch at midnight. Venue, opening date and prices are still to be announced.
Ironwood Penitentiary was ordered shut a long time ago. Nobody told the Keeper, and nobody checked whether the condemned wing was ever really emptied.
You come to in a cell on that wing with a signed death warrant, a last meal going cold on a tin tray and no memory of any trial. Down the corridor, behind a steel door, a generator has started to hum.
Every time it climbs, the lights dip. When it peaks, the chair at the end of the Row is ready for you. Break out before midnight or take the last walk.
Concept art imagining the Row at Ironwood Penitentiary. Death Row is still being built, so the finished sets may look quite different.
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Death Row is a horror escape room Escape This is building, set on the forgotten execution wing of a prison that should have closed long ago. Your team has been sentenced to the electric chair and must break out before the switch is thrown. No venue or opening date has been announced yet.
Yes. Escape This announced Death Row as the room that picks up where Buried Alive left off, carrying its extreme-horror line from a premature burial to the electric chair. You won’t need to have played Buried Alive first to understand Death Row, because each story stands on its own.
When Escape This first revealed Death Row, it described the room as the single most extreme escape room in the world, raising the stakes beyond Buried Alive. Treat that as the studio’s ambition rather than a measured ranking; how intense the finished Death Row feels will be clear once it opens.
The electric chair at the heart of Death Row is a set piece made for the game: the wooden frame, leather straps and metal skullcap you can see in the room’s artwork. It is a theatrical prop built by Escape This, not a working execution device.
The Keeper is the face the villain wears on Death Row: the last executioner of Ironwood Penitentiary, who stayed behind when the prison was ordered shut and carried on its sentences in secret. Underneath, he is the Undertaker from Buried Alive. He fills in every death warrant himself, keeps every date, and has never once granted a reprieve.
The Undertaker, the villain of Buried Alive, is behind Death Row too. On the Row he goes by the Keeper, Ironwood’s last executioner, one more disguise for a man whose other alter egos run Asylum, Cannibal and Meat Grinder. His comic diary at theundertaker.com.au tells the rest of his story.
Escape This has not set an opening date for Death Row. Launch years mentioned in earlier announcements have come and gone, so treat any older date as out of date. The new date will appear on this site as soon as Escape This confirms it.
No venue has been confirmed for Death Row. Escape This runs escape rooms in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne, and the room was first announced for Perth, but where Death Row actually opens will only be settled closer to launch.
Not yet. Tickets for Death Row will go on sale once the room is finished and installed in a venue. Registering on the Escape This coming-soon page is the surest way to hear the moment Death Row bookings open.
Death Row news lands on the Escape This coming-soon page and its social channels first, and this site is updated at the same time. Register your interest there to hear about the venue, the date and the booking link for Death Row.
Death Row is being built as horror, with an electric chair at its centre, so expect dread, darkness and a countdown to your own execution rather than light-hearted puzzling. Escape This will publish age guidance and any content warnings for Death Row before tickets go on sale.
While Death Row is being built, High Noon locks your outlaw gang in a frontier gaol in Perth CBD, and The Dunny traps you in an outback long drop in Perth CBD and Manly. Both come from the team making Death Row.
Death Row is being designed and built by Escape This, which makes its sets and props in its own workshop in Perth. Escape This is Australia’s largest escape room operator, with its own escape room design studio and escape room factory.
Put your name down with Escape This and you’ll hear about the venue and the first bookings before anyone else.
