Friday, 6 June 2025

Escape Science Centre (ESC) - Shangri-La and Museum of Humankind (Singapore)


Hi all

The second escape room business that we checked out in October 2024, while on a holiday with our girls, was ESC (Escape Science Centre) at Science Centre Singapore. Again, Singapore is not known for its great escape rooms, but our girls were keen to check out the Science Centre and the escape rooms are in an adjoining building, so we figured why not.  

We played 2 rooms back to back. The first was Shangri-La and the second was Museum of Humankind. Here is what I thought:

Shangri-La – Room 320

This room was our favourite of the 2 rooms. It was more of an Indiana Jones-style adventure room. We began with a backpack of items on our back and we set off on the adventure. The theming in Shangri-La was pretty strong, as were the props. The puzzles varied from the quite simple to the more involved. The highlight for me was one particular 'construction' puzzle that we really enjoyed. It also involved some pretty impressive tech. We escaped this room pretty quickly - our GM told us we broke the all-time room record, which was cool. This was a fun adventure room.

Museum of Humankind – Room 321

Whilst not our favourite room at ESC, we enjoyed this room as well. The theming was not quite as impressive, but there were a lot more puzzles (and more challenging puzzles) than Shangri-La. The theme was about human's impact on the planet - whilst interesting (and certainly suiting Science Centre Singapore), it was not quite as exciting as the adventure-themed Shangri-La room.  

If you find yourself heading to Science Centre Singapore (which our girls thought was really cool and worth a day out), then I would recommend checking out Shangri-La while you're there. It was a fun adventure room - very family friendly with no jump scares or even dark areas at all. 

Where:                15 Science Centre Rd, Singapore 609081

Duration:             60 minutes

Themes:              3 themes

Price:                    $80SGD per team of 4 (depending on time of day)

Overall Rating:    Fun rooms - Shangri-La was our favourite

More details:       https://www.esc.sg/


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