About us

Hypnotic Escape Rooms didn’t start with a business plan. It started with a love for escape rooms. After playing hundreds of games ourselves, we began wondering what it would be like to create our own puzzles. That simple idea grew into a year-long process of developing three complete escape room experiences—from the storylines and puzzles to the layouts and individual rooms. Once the plans were finished, we were determined to bring them to life. Over the course of another year, more than 100 people worked on different aspects of the build. The project finally felt real the day the walls started going up, dividing each game into its individual rooms. Walking through those empty skeleton walls, we could finally see the experiences we’d imagined on paper becoming real.

From the beginning, we wanted to build something different. We wanted to move beyond traditional locks and keys and create technology-driven puzzles where solving something could actually cause the environment around you to react. We also wanted large, multi-room experiences where groups of up to eight could play comfortably together while physically moving through a story as it unfolds. Even after opening our doors, we continued upgrading the games with some of the more ambitious puzzles and effects we weren’t initially able to build, eventually bringing approximately 99% of our original ideas to life. Today, our three games—Escape L.A., Project 5150, and Atlantis: The Forgotten City—each offer a completely different world to explore, and have earned awards and recognitions from escape room communities around the world, attracting visitors from across the globe to experience them.

But the puzzles, technology, sets, effects, and stories are ultimately there for one reason: to create a great time together. An escape room is a one-time experience, which means we have one opportunity to make it count. That’s why we focus on every part of the experience, from the moment you walk through our doors to the moment you leave. We’re proud to have welcomed people for first dates, family outings, birthdays, anniversaries, reunions, corporate team-building, proposals, gender reveals, and countless other special moments. Every group comes for a different reason, but they all share one thing—they’re spending time together. We built Hypnotic because we wanted to create lasting memories between the people who experience our games together. If you’re still talking about how much fun you had long after you’ve left, then we’ve done what we set out to do.