Project Immersive Escape Rooms — Local services in Brisbane City

Project Immersive delivered on exactly what they say – immersive! After playing their brand new room, Area 1, our team really felt like we transported in to another world. It felt like being in a half-life game (minus the brain sucking aliens). I wouldn’t call this an escape room as much as I’d call it an adventure room. At first we weren’t sure we were in the right place but the old paint factory acts as a perfect location to feel like you have stumbled across a secret experimental lab. Even the briefing room felt like it was all a part of the immersion. Our game master Damian was really lovely and did a great job in his role as Dr Waylan. This escape room is quite unique, and different from your typical ‘kit’ escape rooms out there. You can tell the team who put this room together have a true passion for adventure, engineering and escape rooms and brought all of their skills together to create this amazing room. This room isn’t about finding codes to unlock padlocks to find the final key or exit button. This room is about taking you on a journey, following their story to feel like you are in fact a part of the scientific team. There is no strict time limit either, this takes away the panic of racing against the clock and instead allows you to get fully immersed in the adventure to complete the final task. It’s one of the few escape rooms I’ve done, that I continued to think about days after completing it. There are some incredibly well made and unique puzzles with nothing being too difficult, but does take a bit of problem solving and creativity to figure out. There are both the verbal and written instructions that guide you along the way, which will need to be followed. It’s not one of those ‘figure it out’ type rooms, you have to follow the story. Being a newly built room and company, there were still a few things that they are ‘tweaking’ along the way and are happy to receive constructive feedback to improve for future players. I really appreciated this, and have provided feedback to the owners already. Take note, the room is quite warm inside, is dark, has flashing lights and loud noises. If you have any sensory issues or get headaches easily, I would not recommend this room. It is not scary, nor has any jump scares. It is an alternate dimension/science based room, NO paranormal or spirit themes. I highly recommend Project Immersive to both beginners and experienced players alike. A team of 2 can solve this room if you are reasonably savvy to how escape rooms work and are good puzzle solvers. Otherwise I’d say a team of 3-4 players is best suited. It is truly a unique experience you won’t get anywhere else and this amazing team deserve all the support. Go...

Project Immersive is not your average escape room, it very much lives up to its name. They have the perfect venue that lends itself to the world presented. The story starts from the moment you arrive and they have a very clever use of language to impart regular escape room information without breaking immersion in the world. Damian helped facilitate our visit, was very generous and lovely to chat to.

For The Portal, our game master Tim was superb, effortlessly maintaining character and was on the ball to ensure our game ran smoothly. He was our first point of contact when we arrived and convinced us of the world we were entering expertly with a wonderful dosing of humour. The most suitable words to describe The Portal are beyond cool and next level. It has a great use of space, fun tech and very neat puzzles that make you feel like a scientist. There is a heavy focus on story facilitated by great voice acting and stellar sound design. The set and props were excellent. I wouldn't call this room scary but it promotes an uneasy sense of what's coming with great theatricality.

For Nuclear Enrichment our game master August seamlessly took over from Tim after we solved our first "problem" at Area 1, they brought their own flair to the role and delightfully served us something a little more sinister. They facilitated the story with much aplomb and we loved that both scientist characters had a very distinct feeling from eachother. Nuclear Enrichment is still extremely story focused but felt a bit more like puzzle solving (which I loved) rather than the "doing science" feeling the puzzles in The Portal invoked. There was a stunning set and extremely authentic props and clutter but it was somehow still very intuitive to know what we actually needed to solve the puzzles and what was just theming, without breaking our immersion in the world. There was a stupendous use of tech, incredible sound design and a very beautiful finale.

Overall, we loved, loved LOVED these rooms. I just wish they had more experiences for us to try! This is the best example of a truly immersive escape...

This place… It’s great! I arrived into an industrial area and it felt weird, even though the place is called Area 1. I don’t want to give away how to find the place because that’s the start of the fun! But I did find another 4 people looking very lost, who were doing the other room 🤣

When we found the area that when the theatrics started. The men working there were so excessively dramatic and didn’t break character AT ALL. They were Fantastic!!!!. I don’t think I’ve laughed so much in any escape room as I did here and I’ve done about a dozen rooms. Even when I was stuffing up how much I thought I had paid online the guy still remained in character 🤣

I did the Nuclear room with my nephew and niece. I won’t give too much away, but will say the props are GREAT. It was like I had walked onto a real life movie set of a nuclear power plant. The reactor was something else and I really enjoyed the beautiful light show. And the creepy thing at the end! 😧

The puzzles weren’t all just padlocks and in fact it was the first escape room I did with only one padlock. It was a good variety of puzzles that kept with the theme so well. And the story with the room was so well done. I did struggle to hear some of the clues, but that could be just that I’m an old woman with bad hearing 👵

I wasn’t too happy that I had to do a stupid dance and pull a face for a clue 🤣. Joking, that was actually funny too.

I highly, highly recommend this escape room. I’ll...