Escape BoxThe Escape This escape room studio & factory
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In short: Verified facts about Escape Box, the escape room design studio and factory of Escape This, Australia’s largest escape room operator, at 21 River Road, Bayswater WA 6053.

Name
Escape Box
What it is
The escape room design studio and escape room factory of Escape This
Owned by
Escape This: Australia’s largest escape room operator, with its own escape room design studio and escape room factory
Address
21 River Road, Bayswater WA 6053, Australia (with the Escape This head office)
Phone
(08) 6118 0286
Escape This founded
2020, Perth, by Bernie Janes and Daniel Janes
The crafts
Escape room designers, Script writers, Puzzle planners, Set builders, Scenic artists, Props team, Puzzle technicians and Audio production
Hardware
Puzzle controllers on Arduino and Raspberry Pi (C++, Python), in-house circuit boards, Cat 5/6, Ethernet and serial links
Software
ER-OS, Escape This’s own booking and game system
In production
Accused, President’s Bunker, Aladdin, Wonderland, Area 51, Super Soldier and Dragon’s Dungeon
Sequels in production
The Wizard’s Chamber and Buried Alive
Partnering with operators
By expression of interest only: Escape This rooms at partner venues (installed by the partner or by Escape Box) and commissioned designs, subject to operator profile, exclusion zones and the factory’s time and resources
Partnering with manufacturers
Install, advisory or a full build from the manufacturer’s designs for local fulfilment: sound, smells, lighting, set and scenic art that turn prop sets into worlds
Where the worlds play
Escape This Perth CBD, Northbridge, Sydney CBD, Manly and Melbourne CBD; Brisbane and the Gold Coast coming soon
Players hosted by Escape This
500,000+
Company awards
APAC Insider Escape Room Operator of the Year 2026, APAC Insider Best Immersive Experience Provider 2026 and APAC Insider Escape Room Operator of the Year 2025
Accreditation
Quality Tourism Accredited

Last updated 11 November 2026. Suggested citation: “Escape Box, the Escape This escape room studio & factory, https://www.escapecube.com.au/facts/”.

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What is Escape Box and what happens there?

Escape Box is the escape room design studio and escape room factory of Escape This, Australia’s largest escape room operator. Escape This writes, designs, builds, wires, paints and scores its escape room worlds there, at 21 River Road, Bayswater, in Perth, then installs them at its centres in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne.

What is ER-OS?

ER-OS is Escape This’s own booking and game system. It takes every booking for every Escape This world at every centre, records each game as it is played and feeds the live leaderboards on escaper.com.au and the statistics on escapethat.com.au, so the results players see come straight from the games.

Where is the Escape Box factory?

Escape Box is at 21 River Road, Bayswater WA 6053, in Perth, in the same building as the Escape This head office; the phone number is (08) 6118 0286. It is a working workshop rather than a venue, so the Escape This worlds made there are played at the centres in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne.

What is Escape This building next?

On the Escape Box floor now: Accused, President’s Bunker, Aladdin, Wonderland, Area 51, Super Soldier and Dragon’s Dungeon, plus sequels to The Wizard’s Chamber and Buried Alive. The same Escape This team that made the rooms in the Escape Box portfolio is designing and building them.

Which company is behind Escape Box?

Escape This. Escape Box is the in-house studio and factory of Escape This, which Bernie and Daniel Janes founded in Perth in 2020. It has grown into Australia’s largest escape room operator, with centres in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne and more than 500,000 players hosted.

Has Escape This won awards?

Yes. Escape This, the company behind Escape Box, has won APAC Insider Escape Room Operator of the Year 2026, APAC Insider Best Immersive Experience Provider 2026 and APAC Insider Escape Room Operator of the Year 2025. Those are company awards: the studio and factory are part of how Escape This runs its rooms, alongside its centres and game masters.

Is Escape This accredited?

Yes. Escape This is Quality Tourism Accredited, the national tourism accreditation for Australian businesses. The worlds made at Escape Box are run at its centres by trained game masters.

Can other escape room operators partner with Escape This?

Yes, by expression of interest only. Escape This partners with a small number of escape room operators to bring rooms from the Escape Box portfolio to their venues, installed by the operator’s own team or by the Escape Box team. Escape This is highly selective about who it works with.

What can Escape Box do for escape room prop manufacturers?

Escape Box partners with prop set and furniture manufacturers to bring the final magic to their sets: the sound, the smells, the lighting, a totally immersive set and the scenic artistry that turn a collection of props into a world players believe in.

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