Welcome! If you found us through ER Champ, you probably saw our name next to CKCOS, a team from Taiwan. Escapebar is proud to sponsor them on their trip to Wrocław, Poland, for ER Champ 2026, the 10th edition of the World Escape Room Championship. The Grand Final takes place on 14 November 2026. This page explains who we are and what we do for players back home.
What is Escapebar?
Escapebar (逃脫吧) is Taiwan’s community platform for escape room players. Think of it as a mix of a game database, a review site and a player profile, built around escape rooms in Taiwan.
Taiwan has a busy escape room scene, with studios across Taipei, Taichung, Kaohsiung and beyond. New games open all the time, and many close after a run. Information used to be scattered across Facebook pages, booking sites and chat groups. Escapebar puts it in one place, so players can find a game, check what others thought, and plan their next visit.
Escapebar is also listed among TERPECA’s Top Regional Sites, which describes it as having “a comprehensive list of the escape rooms in Taiwan.”
What players do on Escapebar?
- Discover games and studios. Every game has its own page with the studio, location, player count, price and opening hours. Studios have pages too, listing their current games and branches. Players can filter by city and theme, or browse an escape room map to see what is nearby.
- Read and write reviews. Players rate games and leave reviews after they play. Reviews that might contain spoilers are hidden behind a warning until you choose to reveal them, so you can research a game without ruining it. Other players can mark reviews as helpful.
- Keep a play journal. Each player has a profile that records the games they have played and when. Over time it becomes a personal history of every room they have escaped, or failed to.
- Earn achievements. Playing and reviewing unlock achievements and titles shown on your profile. Studios can also run fan challenges, quizzes for players who know their games well.
- Find teammates (coming soon). Many games need four to eight people, which is hard to arrange. Our team-up feature lets players post a session they are planning and invite others to fill the open spots.
- All of this is available on our website.
Community events
Escapebar also runs yearly events for Taiwan’s player community.
- Game of the Year (GOTY). Since 2021, players have voted for the best escape rooms in Taiwan each year. For many local studios it is the award players care about most.
- Puzzle hunts. We host online puzzle events, such as our Lantern Festival puzzle hunt, that anyone can join from home.
- Yearly recap. At the end of each year, every player gets a personal summary of the games they played, their favourite genres and their milestones.
Visiting Taiwan? Play our rooms
Taiwanese escape rooms are known for detailed sets, strong stories and a lot of live actor interaction. Horror games are especially popular, and many studios build rooms that run for two hours or more. If you enjoy immersive games, the scene is worth a trip. A few tips for international players:
- Use Escapebar to shortlist games. The site is in Traditional Chinese, but your browser’s translate feature works well on game pages. Star ratings and player counts need no translation.
- Check the language before booking. Most games are run in Mandarin. Some studios can offer English hints or English-friendly rooms, so ask the studio directly.
- Book ahead. Popular games fill up weeks in advance, especially on weekends. Each game page links to the studio’s booking page where available.
- Bring a full team. Many studios need a minimum number of players per session. If you are short, a local team-up post may help.
Escapebar is also a founding member of the Taiwan Immersive Experience Association. If you would like to connect with the association, we are happy to introduce you.
Cheer for CKCOS
We sponsor this team because we want to see Taiwanese players compete on the world stage, and to show the world how strong our escape room community is. Please cheer for CKCOS at ER Champ 2026 in Wrocław.
If you are a player, a studio owner or an event organiser and want to connect with the Taiwan scene, we would love to hear from you at [email protected]. And if you ever visit Taiwan, come find a room on escape.bar. We will help you get locked in.
