# Warlocked

> Warlocked is a dark-fantasy escape room in development by Escape This, confirmed for every Escape This centre (Perth CBD, Northbridge, Manly, Sydney CBD and Melbourne CBD) with no opening date set. Its working concept: a team receives anonymous brass keys, enters Marrow’s Lock & Key, a warlock’s shop sealed since 1891, and has sixty minutes to break his wards before the Creditor he owes collects a soul. Prices, team size, age guidance and difficulty are not yet announced.

Status (updated 2026-11-01): In development.
- Warlocked is an original escape room that Escape This is designing and building in-house.
- It is coming to every Escape This centre: Perth CBD, Northbridge, Manly, Sydney CBD and Melbourne CBD.
- It is a dark-fantasy story of its own, separate from Escape This’s wizarding rooms.

- Not yet announced: Opening date (none set); Which centre gets it first; Ticket prices; Team size; Age guidance; Difficulty rating; Final story and puzzle details.

- Producer: Escape This (https://www.escapethis.com.au). Escape This is Australia’s largest escape room operator, and runs its own escape room design studio and escape room factory in Australia. It has venues in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne, has hosted more than 500,000 players and has earned 18,169 five-star reviews.

## Pages
- [Home](https://www.warlocked.com.au/)

## Common questions
- [What is Warlocked, and whose shop are we trapped in?](https://www.warlocked.com.au/#what-is-warlocked): Warlocked is a dark-fantasy escape room Escape This is developing. In the concept, your team is lured into Marrow’s Lock & Key, the sealed shop of a Victorian locksmith turned warlock, and must break his wards inside an hour before the being he owes comes to claim a soul.
- [Who is Oswin Marrow?](https://www.warlocked.com.au/#who-is-oswin-marrow): Oswin Marrow is the warlock of Warlocked: a fictional lockmaker who traded for a gift that let him open any lock and craft locks nobody could break. He has spent well over a century arranging for strangers to cover the cost.
- [Why does the warlock want our team inside his shop?](https://www.warlocked.com.au/#why-marrow-wants-you): In Warlocked, Marrow owes a soul and has no intention of handing over his own. The anonymous brass keys posted to your team are bait; the moment you step through his door, his wards close every way out behind you.
- [What is the Creditor that Marrow owes?](https://www.warlocked.com.au/#warlocked-the-creditor): The Creditor is the presence Oswin Marrow bargained with, and Warlocked never quite shows you its face. You know three things: it collects when the hour is up, it waits behind the seventh door, and any soul left in the shop will do.
- [What is the candle clock in Warlocked?](https://www.warlocked.com.au/#warlocked-candle-clock): The Warlocked concept marks time with sixty candles set around a chalk sigil on the floor, one for each minute of the game. Every flame that gutters brings the Creditor closer. The exact game length will be confirmed when the room is finished.
- [Does Warlocked have a twist ending?](https://www.warlocked.com.au/#warlocked-twist): It does, and we won’t spoil it. Warlocked gives you a helpful voice in the shop from the first minute. Think hard about who is speaking and where the advice leads, because getting out takes more than opening the right door.
- [What does the name Warlocked mean?](https://www.warlocked.com.au/#warlocked-name): Warlocked is a pun: shut in by a warlock’s magic rather than by an ordinary bolt. The title also hints at how the story might end, because it reads just as well if the warlock is the one left locked away.
- [Is Warlocked part of the same world as The Wizard’s Chamber or School of Magic?](https://www.warlocked.com.au/#warlocked-wizard-rooms): No. Warlocked is a standalone story with its own villain and setting. There is no castle, academy or class of young spellcasters, only one warlock, his cluttered lock shop and a debt he would very much like your team to pay.
- [Is Marrow’s Lock & Key based on a real locksmith?](https://www.warlocked.com.au/#is-marrows-lock-and-key-real): No. Marrow’s Lock & Key, Oswin Marrow and the Creditor were all invented for Warlocked. Any likeness to a real locksmith, living or long buried, is pure coincidence.
- [Has Escape This set a launch date for Warlocked?](https://www.warlocked.com.au/#warlocked-launch-date): Not yet. Warlocked is still in development and has no opening date, so anyone quoting one is guessing. Escape This will announce dates once the build is far enough along, and this page will change the same day.
- [Is Warlocked coming to my nearest Escape This centre?](https://www.warlocked.com.au/#warlocked-nearest-centre): If you live near an Escape This centre, yes. Escape This has confirmed Warlocked for every one of them: Perth CBD and Northbridge in Perth, Manly and Sydney CBD in Sydney, and Melbourne CBD. Which centre opens it first is still to be decided.
- [Is there a booking page for Warlocked yet?](https://www.warlocked.com.au/#warlocked-booking-page): There isn’t. Warlocked can’t be booked while it is being built. Registering interest on the Escape This coming-soon page is the surest way to hear when sessions go on sale at your centre.
- [Have ticket prices for Warlocked been set?](https://www.warlocked.com.au/#warlocked-ticket-prices): No prices have been set for Warlocked. Escape This usually publishes them when bookings open, and they can vary by city, by day of the week and between adult and child tickets.
- [What’s the best way to hear Warlocked news first?](https://www.warlocked.com.au/#warlocked-news-first): Join the list on the Escape This coming-soon page, or follow Escape This on Instagram and Facebook, where Warlocked announcements will land first. The confirmed list further up this page is refreshed whenever news breaks.
- [Is the Warlocked storyline final?](https://www.warlocked.com.au/#warlocked-story-final): Not necessarily. What this page describes is Escape This’s working concept for Warlocked. Character names, puzzles, sets and parts of the plot can all shift as the room is built and play-tested.
- [How big a group will Warlocked take?](https://www.warlocked.com.au/#warlocked-group-size): Group sizes for Warlocked haven’t been announced. Escape This will list the smallest and largest team it allows alongside the booking details when sessions are released.
- [Will there be a minimum age for Warlocked?](https://www.warlocked.com.au/#warlocked-minimum-age): Age guidance for Warlocked is still undecided. The concept leans dark fantasy rather than horror, but Escape This will confirm any minimum age, and whether younger players need an adult with them, before bookings open.
- [Will Warlocked be a beginner room or one for experienced teams?](https://www.warlocked.com.au/#warlocked-beginners): Nobody knows yet, because Warlocked has no difficulty rating. Escape This rates a room only after real teams have play-tested it, so expect a rating close to opening.
- [Is Warlocked horror, or dark fantasy?](https://www.warlocked.com.au/#warlocked-horror-or-fantasy): Warlocked is being shaped as dark fantasy: candlelight, glowing sigils, an old curse and a deadline you can feel, rather than jump scares. How intense the finished room is will be clearer once it is built and rated.
- [Which kinds of players will get the most out of Warlocked?](https://www.warlocked.com.au/#warlocked-who-for): Warlocked is pitched at groups who like menace in their magic: fans of dark fantasy, occult mysteries and intricate puzzle boxes, plus anyone who has finished Escape This’s wizarding rooms and wants something with sharper teeth.
- [Who is creating Warlocked?](https://www.warlocked.com.au/#who-is-creating-warlocked): Warlocked is being written, designed and built by Escape This. Escape This is Australia’s largest escape room operator, and runs its own escape room design studio and escape room factory in Australia.
- [Which awards has the team behind Warlocked won?](https://www.warlocked.com.au/#warlocked-maker-awards): Escape This, the company making Warlocked, was named Escape Room Operator of the Year at the APAC Insider Australia Business Awards in both 2025 and 2026, among other honours.
- [Which magic-themed rooms can we play while waiting for Warlocked?](https://www.warlocked.com.au/#magic-rooms-while-waiting): Spell-casters can try The Wizard’s Chamber in Perth CBD or Sydney CBD, or School of Magic’s rooms in Manly and Melbourne. For something gothic before Warlocked arrives, Dracula plays at Northbridge.

## Optional
- [Full text](https://www.warlocked.com.au/llms-full.txt): story and FAQ in plain text