Top 9 Best DIY Escape Rooms in 2024

With over 100 DIY escape rooms designed, we are often asked what our best work is. While we love all of our releases, we picked some favorites that we're confident are the best printable escape rooms we've designed.

Why you can trust us:

We rated The Puppet Show as the best printable escape room we've designed based on the way we used a three-dimensional puppet theatre to unfold a story that blends our love for escape room puzzles with unexpected storytelling. The paper theater adapts to the story, so we just love how the story unfolds in front of the players.

For us, The Pyramid represents our ultimate craft. Structurally and artistically, the game transports you to a world of exploration. It fascinates us how the game evolves from a simple PDF escape room to a whole immersive structure, with numerous 3D pieces. It's quite an experience!

We do love a good murder mystery game (the reason we designed five immersive games based on Romanian folklore), but we often can't help ourselves from adding creative escape room puzzles to them. For Leopold's Circus of Wonders, we started off as an escape room, with ten escape room puzzles, for which we added pieces of evidence to help you solve the case. It's a great game for those who love escape rooms but are not into a full-sized investigation.

We designed The Box as a self-explanatory concept that is easy to navigate through. You end up with a 3D metal box that hides secrets within every detail. With each puzzle you solve, another one is revealed. Everything is focused around the box, and the finale is no exception. Really great, straight-forward adventure.

When we were writing this best printable escape room top, we tried to find a good spot for The Hotel of Lost Souls. It already had a good run and remember being quite innovative at the time of the release. It was among our first games to integrate three-dimensional elements and escape room envelopes and our Home Adventurers loved it. We love the concept of this game to date and are really happy we still receive positive feedback more than two years after its release.

The Pirate Box took the concept of The Box and made it family-friendly and Internet-free. The Box has a quite rigid style that might not attract puzzle-loving players of all ages, so giving it a twist was definitely fun. In true MysteryLocks fashion, all puzzles are original and themed to the environment. So while the concept is similar, The Pirate Box is a totally different game. You'll love how immersive it is!

We designed the Zombie Escape Room right before Halloween, but we realized it's such a great game all year round! It's like a real-life video game with very satisfying story evolution and visually stunning elements. It's simply fantastic to experience it. It's one of our most underrated favorites!

Oblivion was the first game to physically break the barrier between printable and digital elements. The puzzles are carefully designed to give a sense of exploration every step of the way. While the online game platform provides stunning progress, it often holds keys to the escape room puzzles and it doesn't disappoint! A fantastic hybrid escape room!