Escape rooms aren't the cheapest leisure alternative. A walk in the park is, of course, considerably cheaper. However, if you were to factor in the costs for park maintenance, land lease, tree care, etc. – which are generally borne by the public through taxes – it suddenly looks quite different. Theatre visits, which are often heavily subsidised by taxes, especially in the case of state-run theatres, are usually similarly expensive or even more so.

However, escape rooms do not receive government funding and must therefore finance themselves in the private sector. It is therefore not uncommon for escape rooms to cost well over 100 euros for a group.

For this, an Escape Room also offers a very special experience. You always book an Escape Room exclusively for himself and his group. No strangers will join in. Additionally, there's a person who oversees the escape room the entire time, ready with hints and assistance. Considering the space an escape room requires, this is also a lot. A cinema seat needs barely more than a square metre. Even if you include adjacent areas, the space required per person is still relatively small. However, escape rooms usually have spaces around 30 to 50 square metres for groups of 2 to 6 players. Exceptions like Alien Contact with a Area of over 1000 square metres also to show that there are also clear extremes here, which make the gaming experience much more impressive and elaborate for some.

If the price of escape rooms continues to be cut, the quality will also noticeably deteriorate. Several escape room providers are now openly considering reducing their staffing capacity. Game masters would then have to supervise three, four, or even five escape rooms simultaneously. Spaces will also be reduced in order to accommodate more escape rooms in a smaller area. However, small escape rooms are not necessarily a disadvantage – if it fits the story. A large, unused space is usually far less exciting and immersive than a small, well-divided or utilised space. An escape room experience gains not from its size, but from its structure and the story that is told within it.

When you take a closer look at the pricing of escape rooms, you very quickly notice that Price is no criterion for quality There are very good cheap and bad expensive escape rooms. Some providers even try to advertise that they operate premium escape rooms and thus justify a higher price. However, the self-proclaimed premium escape rooms unfortunately differed in no way from ordinary escape rooms. They are generally no more elaborate, have no better story, no better narrative, and no better puzzles. Only the marketing is usually more impressive and costly. Therefore, with the higher price, you usually only pay for the higher advertising costs.

All of this should be taken into consideration when choosing an escape room. But as with many things, it's not the price of the escape room that determines the fun, but personal taste. And really, for a group experience, a few extra euros shouldn't matter if you want to spend an exciting, varied evening with your friends, family, or work colleagues.