Victor Frankenstein has locked you in his laboratory as a storm rolls in. Help him wake his creature before the lightning passes, and he’ll let you go. Fail him, and you’re the next thing on his table.
In short: In Frankenstein Resurrection, Victor Frankenstein keeps you captive in his laboratory on a stormy night and offers a deal: help him revive his stitched-together creature before the lightning moves on, and you go free. Fail, and you become his next experiment.
No one remembers quite how you came to be in the doctor’s house. You only remember waking in his laboratory, the air thick with chemicals, rain hammering on the shutters.
Victor Frankenstein is a genius, everyone agrees, and he is also completely mad. Tonight he means to finish the work that has consumed him: to give life back to the stitched-together body waiting beneath a stained sheet.
He can’t do it alone, so he offers terms. Act as his unwilling assistants, and he will set you free. His journals hold the method. The organs are somewhere in the laboratory. The power must come from the storm itself.
In the corner a grandfather clock keeps time with the thunder. Each strike of lightning is a little further away than the last, and when the storm moves on, so does your chance.
Wake the creature before the final strike and the doctor keeps his word. Leave the body cold, and he’ll go looking for fresh parts. You have one hour.
Wake it before the thunder fades, or take its place.
Frankenstein Resurrection is a fully built Victorian laboratory: anatomy charts, jars of preserved specimens, an old organ keyboard, a 380-volt switch and a figure waiting under a stained sheet. The puzzles are physical and mechanical, and every one of them feeds the experiment.
Stills from the Frankenstein Resurrection set.
Frankenstein Resurrection was designed and built by Escape This’s own studio and factory team, sculpted creature and all.
The same laboratory now stands in Northbridge and Sydney, and a third is being prepared for Melbourne’s Collins Street venue, opening in March 2027.
Lab coats, Victorian mourning black, a stooped assistant’s hunch or a mad professor’s wild hair all belong in the doctor’s laboratory. Players who stay in character say it makes the hour even better.
Frankenstein Resurrection is a 60-minute gothic horror escape room by Escape This. Victor Frankenstein holds your group captive in his laboratory during an electrical storm and promises freedom if you help bring his creature to life before the last lightning strike. It plays at Escape This Northbridge in Perth and Escape This Sydney CBD, with Melbourne CBD to follow in March 2027.
Your freedom for your labour. In Frankenstein Resurrection, Victor Frankenstein will release you only if you serve as his unwilling assistants: tracking down the organs, following his journals and feeding the storm’s power into his creation. If the body stays cold, you become his next experiment.
The storm powers the whole experiment. Frankenstein Resurrection’s laboratory needs lightning to wake the creature, so your group must finish before the tempest’s final strike rolls past. That gives you 60 minutes, while a grandfather clock ticks away in the corner of the room.
Not at all. Frankenstein Resurrection takes the doctor, his creature and the Victorian gothic atmosphere from the 1818 novel, but every clue you need is inside the laboratory. Readers will spot the references; everyone else only needs sharp eyes and patience with the doctor’s handwriting.
No. Frankenstein Resurrection has no live actors. The doctor, the storm and the creature come to life through the set, sculpted props, sound, lighting and machinery, while a gamesmaster follows your progress on camera from outside the room.
Tactile and mechanical. In Frankenstein Resurrection you scavenge for organs, decipher ink-stained journals and anatomy charts, and work the switches, coils and contraptions that carry power to the creature. Some puzzles create an electromagnetic field, and plenty depend on careful reading.
Go ahead. Lab coats, Victorian black, a hunched assistant or a mad professor all fit Frankenstein Resurrection, and reviewers say playing in character makes the night better.
It’s a natural one. Frankenstein Resurrection puts you in a stormy gothic laboratory with a body waiting to be revived, and one Northbridge reviewer found it just the right amount of spooky for the Halloween season. Fancy dress is welcome.
Escape This designed and built Frankenstein Resurrection in-house, laboratory, machinery and sculpted creature included. Escape This is Australia’s largest escape room operator, with its own escape room design studio and escape room factory.
Book Frankenstein Resurrection at Northbridge or Sydney CBD. Three or more of you, one laboratory, one hour of lightning.