In short: Questions and answers about Convicted, the coming Escape This prison-break escape room: Wattle Hill, the Warden and the letter, what’s confirmed, what isn’t, and how to hear when it opens.
Convicted is a prison-break adventure escape room announced by Escape This. Your team plays inmates wrongly locked up for murder who escape their cell at night to reach the Warden’s office and find a letter proving the conviction was rigged. Its venue and opening date are yet to be confirmed.
Convicted is billed as an adventure, not a horror room. The tension comes from sneaking through a maximum-security prison against the clock, not from jump scares. Escape This will publish age guidance for Convicted before tickets go on sale.
In Convicted you need to get out of your cell, make your way through the prison to the Warden’s office and track down the letter signed by the lead witness from your trial, all before the guards come back on their rounds.
Convicted’s story gives your team one hour between lights-out and the guards’ next sweep of the cell block. The final game length will be confirmed by Escape This when the room opens.
That’s the mystery at the heart of Convicted. All you glimpsed while serving the Warden lunch was your own name and the signature of the lead witness whose evidence sent you down. Prove what it says and your conviction could be overturned.
No. In Convicted you play someone sentenced to thirty years to life for a murder they didn’t commit. The breakout isn’t about running away; it’s about getting hold of the evidence that shows you were framed.
Wattle Hill State Prison is the maximum-security jail where Convicted is set. Inmates there fill their days with yard laps, kitchen duty and the odd hour in the library, and the corridors are patrolled by guards on a strict schedule.
No. Wattle Hill State Prison was invented for Convicted. Its name has an Australian ring to it, but it isn’t based on any real correctional centre, and its Warden and inmates are fictional characters.
The Prison Warden runs Wattle Hill and is the closest thing Convicted has to a villain. A letter on his desk links him to the lead witness from your murder trial, which suggests he has a stake in keeping you behind bars.
Convicted points the finger at the lead witness, whose sworn evidence won the jury over, and at the Warden, who is quietly corresponding with that witness. Working out exactly how the two are connected is part of the breakout.
Convicted borrows the feel of a classic jailbreak movie: an innocent inmate, a crooked authority figure and an escape planned under the guards’ noses. The story itself is original to Escape This rather than based on any film or series.
No opening date has been confirmed for Convicted. Escape This has announced the room as coming soon, and this site will publish the date the moment it’s locked in.
Escape This hasn’t confirmed a venue for Convicted. An earlier Escape This page pointed to Perth, but plans can shift, so treat that as unconfirmed. Escape This currently runs rooms in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne.
Not yet. Convicted has no booking calendar until Escape This finishes the room and installs it in a venue. Registering your interest on the Escape This coming-soon page is the way to hear when bookings open.
Convicted’s ticket prices haven’t been announced. Escape This sets prices per room and city, so expect them to be published alongside the venue and opening date.
Put your name down on the Escape This coming-soon page and keep an eye on Escape This’s Facebook and Instagram. Convicted’s launch news will go out there, and on this site, before bookings go live.
No. Convicted hasn’t opened, so its venue, group size, age guidance and difficulty could all change. This site separates what Escape This has confirmed from what’s still pending so nothing here goes stale.
Convicted’s player numbers haven’t been confirmed. Escape This will list the minimum and maximum group size for Convicted when the booking page goes up.
Convicted is pitched as an adventure, and the story is about clearing an innocent name rather than gore, but a minimum age hasn’t been confirmed. Escape This will set Convicted’s age guidance before it opens.
Convicted’s difficulty rating hasn’t been published yet. Escape This rates each room once it’s built and playtested, so the official score for Convicted will arrive with its launch details.
Convicted suits anyone who loves a jailbreak yarn or a good whodunnit: teams who like a story with a crooked official to expose, fans of courtroom and prison dramas, and regulars who have played the Escape This rooms already open.
High Noon, the Wild West gaol break at Escape This Perth CBD, is the closest thing to Convicted you can book today: your gang is locked in the county lock-up and the Sheriff’s safe is next door.
Escape This has always kept bookings private to one group, and that is expected to apply to Convicted too. Your team won’t be paired with people you don’t know.
Escape This has welcomed costumes in the past, and black-and-white stripes would suit Convicted perfectly. Just wear closed shoes and clothes you can move in, as you would for any Escape This room.
Probably not. Escape This asks players to leave phones, smartwatches and cameras in a locker before a game, and Convicted is expected to follow the same rule. Final house rules will come with the booking page.
Convicted is an Escape This production, written, designed and built by the company’s own team rather than bought in. Escape This is Australia’s largest escape room operator, with its own escape room design studio and escape room factory.
Rooms like Convicted come together in the Escape This workshop, where story writers, puzzle designers, carpenters, scenic painters and prop makers turn a premise into a physical set: in this case, a cell block, a corridor and a Warden’s office.
Leave your details with Escape This and you’ll hear about Convicted before the booking calendar opens.