A judge gave you thirty years to life for a murder you didn’t commit. Tonight, while Wattle Hill sleeps, you break out of your cell and creep to the Warden’s office for the one letter that proves you were set up.
In short: In Convicted, a lead witness’s testimony earned you thirty years to life for a murder you never committed. Months into your sentence at Wattle Hill State Prison you spot that witness’s signed letter on the Warden’s desk, and tonight you have an hour to break out of your cell and take it.
The trial was quick. One witness stood up, swore they saw you do it, and the jury believed every word. Thirty years to life, the judge said, and the cell door at Wattle Hill State Prison closed behind you before you’d stopped shaking.
Inside, routine is the only clock. Yard laps at dawn. Potato peeling and pot scrubbing in the kitchens. In the prison library you read every law book on the trolley and go through your own case file line by line, looking for the thread that will unravel it.
You lose count of the months. Then one afternoon, serving the Warden his lunch, you catch sight of a letter on his desk. Your name is in it. And the signature at the bottom belongs to the lead witness, the one whose testimony put you here.
Why would the star witness be writing to the man who holds your keys? Whatever the answer, the Warden is in on it, and that letter won’t sit on his desk forever.
So tonight, after lights-out, you go. Out of the cell, along the block, past the guard post and into the Warden’s office. You have one hour before the next round of torches comes sweeping down the corridor. Find the letter, and you might just win back your freedom. Get caught, and thirty years starts to sound generous.
Find the letter before the torches come down the corridor.
Concept art imagining Wattle Hill State Prison for Convicted. The room is still being designed, so the finished set may look different.
Most breakout stories end at the outer wall. Convicted turns that around: the way to freedom runs deeper into the prison, to the one office every inmate is meant to avoid, because what you need is proof, not a getaway car.
Where Convicted will play, how many can join the break and when the first cell door opens will be posted here as soon as Escape This confirms them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.