While we first opened the Escape ArcadeĀ® in late 2024, 2025 was our first full year of operation, and what a year it was! Across the 30 varied simulations available to competing units, youāve shown us your accuracy, deduction, and teamwork. At EQIC, weāre tracking your every move within the Escape ArcadeĀ®, seeing which teams are ready for our field missions.
To celebrate the first full year of the Escape ArcadeĀ®, weāve compiled some of the most impressive results across our rooms and asked our EQ Handlers for some of their favourite memories.
Incredible Top Scores
While we offer an overall score for every unit taking part in the Escape ArcadeĀ® (displayed further down!), we also track results on each simulation, showcasing some of the amazing achievements of our operatives.
Staying Alive
This TikTok-famous simulation requires careful movement and coordination to claim the highest scores. A huge congratulations to Wishka LTD with a score of 15915, over 3 times the average score!
Snake 2.0
Across 10000+ units, 4 teams achieved an incredible top score of 10650:
- The Wastemen
- Run it Back Moyessey
- Potty the Plant
- KafKafKaf
However, none of these were enough to topple 2024ās highest score of 11400 from North Vs South. Better luck this year!
The Library
Boasting one of the widest spreads of points across the Escape ArcadeĀ®, this riddle-solving simulation had a clear winner in 2025, with 4 Rats and a Cabbage scoring a truly impressive 39725!
Blanket Fort Defence
When monsters invade your bedroom, you know who to callā¦ Itās Victoriaās Team with a staggering 46475 points.
Area 51
Some units come to the Escape ArcadeĀ® to test their skills across a huge range of simulations, and some come to the Escape ArcadeĀ® to develop mastery of but a single challenge. A quick peek at the leaderboard of Area 51 shows that a single unit with an ever-shifting name (Megatron Reborn and The Rise of Megatron) has occupied 9 out of 10 positions, including first place with a fantastic score of 66952. Often considered our hardest simulation, their result is a testament to the power of dedication and hard work.
Floor is Lava
The greatest physical challenge in the Escape ArcadeĀ®, Floor is Lava challenges teams to press buttons across an assault course while keeping clear of the deadly (simulated) lava bubbling below. In 2025, there was a clear victor, with Golf Pros scoring 20000 points, a full 3500 points clear of their closest competitors.
Other Top Scores
Here are the other top scores in 2025 for each simulation in the Escape ArcadeĀ®. Click the links to see the leaderboards.
- Correct Call – 16604 – Hip Hip!!
- Cover Shoot – 42880 – 4 Rats and a Pineapple
- Curtain Up – 34030 – Elprimoooo
- Feed the Birds – 32895 – Sloanez
- Holey Moley Mayhem – 81600 – The 6Foot & Overs
- Laser Defence – 50017 – Winner Winner Chicken Dinner
- Link the Dots – 20000 – Rexi’s Angels & The Fellowship
- Maze Master – 17321 – Crack Wipes
- Planetarium Conundrum – 7709 – Red Herring
- Procrastination Station – 25508 – Tantalising Trio
- Retro Reels – 22243 – Terrible Trio
- Secret Ingredient – 30910 – 4 Rats and a Pineapple
- Space Race – 18540 – The Eggs
- Spinning Pins – 47809 – FTNH
- Steam Train Speed Train – 26093 – Brownies
- The Candy Shop – 54530 – DW
- The Climb – 53503 –Ā TYWN
- The Museum – 13380 – The Adults
- Top Marks – 44313 – DPK Girls
- Toy Box Tango – 46900 – Lana
- Turn it Off – 20500 – Boga Lemonade (they actually achieved this score TWICE!)
- Twenty One – 37475 – VIPS (Also in 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, and 9th!)
- Whispering Woods – 19222 – Wishka LTD
- Y2K Panic – 40444 – The One and Only
Assuming that 4 Rats and a Cabbage and 4 Rats and a Pineapple are the same unit (The EQIC Brianstrust tells us that all available data points to yes), that means they are the 2025 champion in 3 separate rooms, an incredible achievement!
Overall Top Scores
Thousands of units braved the Escape ArcadeĀ® in 2025, but only one came away as the overall victor. A huge congratulations to āThe Rise of Megatronā with 487001 points (they also, under a slightly different name, came 3rd and 7th!). Here is the rest of the top 10:
- The Rise of Megatron – 487001
- VIPS – 356603
- Megatron Reborn – 355329
- Cryptic Squirrel – 323398
- Starlings – 277857
- 4 Rates and a Pineapple – 270542
- Megatron 2.0 – 258351
- The One and Only – 249676
- The Dynamos: Here We Go Again – 243593
- LANA – 231862
Our Favourite Memories of 2025
We spoke to our trusted team of EQ Handlers about the favourite memories of the Escape ArcadeĀ® in 2025. Hereās what they had to say:
āThe scene: you’re sitting behind a desk. You’ve been there for hours. You’ve encouraged competitive teams to yell out war cries (elite), show off their mock kung fu moves (smashed it), and you thought you’d peaked when team ‘Dragons’ sheepishly presented you with the matching dragon plushies that had inspired their unit name. Little did you know, the highlight of your entire week would come in the form of two teams of cheerleaders. “When I point, you call out your unit name, but with pizzazz! A twirl, or a little dance!! but with ENERGY!!!” They huddle, they whisper, you’re confused, you point at team one. They tumble across the floor in front of your desk, and jump up. TEEEEEAM TWINKLLLEEEEE!” you’re astounded. you throw your hands up and whoop. can the second team match this energy? you’re about to give them a chance. you’re grinning, you point, and they BACKFLIP ACROSS THE FLOOR. I repeat. BACKFLIPS HAVE OCCURRED. there is screaming and laughing. this is the single greatest thing that has occurred to you while working here. It still is.”
(Absolutely no embellishment has been made in the telling of this story).
Our Favourite Simulations in the Escape ArcadeĀ®
If youāre looking for some great options in the Escape ArcadeĀ®, here are some of our teamās favourite simulations to watch units play:
“Watching people play Staying Alive will very rarely not be fun. It has even on occasion become a spectacle sport, watching the CCTV screens avidly, waiting with bated breath to see whether the player will make it across the booby-trapped floor with the twinkle toed footloose energy they’ve been giving to the game. I’ve even seen one player cartwheel across the right answer.”
“I find watching teams play Planetarium Conundrum really entertaining. There’re usually two types of players: some stand really still, and you can sense them locking in and muttering the order the planets light up to each other. My favourite though are what I call The Dancers. They tend to yell the planet names as they sort of jump and point to the planet as it lights up, and then repeat the dance as someone presses the buttons again. People that make dances out of puzzles must just coast through life, honestly.”
What’s the Hardest Simulation in the Escape ArcadeĀ®?
“Well, that’s a double-sided question. Hardest one to play, or the one we have to clue the most often? Because one is Toybox Tango (we’ve seen dynamic breakdowns over what colours make purple), and over radio we rarely have to out more than ‘please clue to-‘ before someone is on their way to Toybox Tango. The hardest game to play, in my humble opinion, is Holey Moley Mayhem. I mean, not only is absolutely impossible for me to project where the ball is gonna land, but the whole time I’ve got a passive aggressive mole yelling faux encouragement. Who is this mole? Where is he? I just wanna talk to him. I swear.”
Want to Make the 2026 Leaderboard?
The Escape ArcadeĀ® is an incredible competitive challenge for units of up to 4 players. Across 30 immersive simulations, youāll be challenged on reactions, knowledge, memory, teamwork and much much more. Book your slot today!
