Escaparium's complex in Laval, 18 km north of downtown Montreal, holds the room TERPECA ranked best in the world for 2025, Magnifico, along with #5 Ctrl Alt Reboot and #8 The Forgotten Cathedral. Two more of the top 100 are in the same building, a sixth is at Escaparium's branch in Dorval near the airport, and Sauve Qui Peut in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, 33 km south-east of the city, has #19. All of them can be played in English.
Key takeaways
- Highest ranked: Magnifico (#1), Ctrl Alt Reboot (#5) and The Forgotten Cathedral (#8).
- 7 TERPECA 2025 Top Rooms here. Horror ratings: 4 no horror, 1 spooky and 2 passively scary.
- Five ranked rooms share one Laval address, so a single weekend covers three of the world top 10.
- Every room is playable in English; each card links the room's own page for players, length and booking.
Ranks and horror ratings are TERPECA's 2025 results. Players, length and languages are from each room's own site, checked October 30, 2026.
Screenshot of escaparium.ca #1 · TERPECA 2025No horrorMagnifico
Escaparium · Laval · 18 km from Montreal
Players visit Magnifico's Circus, a day of rides, games and prizes that leads to an evening show under the big top.[2]
Award-winning restaurants nearby (5)
- Mon Lapin #5 (The Best Restaurant in East Canada 2026) · North America's 50 Best Restaurants 2026 · 14 km
- Sabayon 1 Star · MICHELIN Guide Québec 2026 · 20 km
- Beba #27 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants 2026 · 21 km
- Le Violon #15 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants 2026 · 16 km
- Montréal Plaza #22 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants 2025 · 14 km
5545 Bd des Rossignols, Laval, QC H7L 5S7Book
Screenshot of escaparium.ca #5 · TERPECA 2025No horrorCtrl Alt Reboot
Escaparium · Laval · 18 km from Montreal
A night out at Escaparium's new bar, FUBAR, goes off the rails when two frantic scientists burst through the doors.[2]
The room page warns of offensive language.[2]
Award-winning restaurants nearby (5)
- Mon Lapin #5 (The Best Restaurant in East Canada 2026) · North America's 50 Best Restaurants 2026 · 14 km
- Sabayon 1 Star · MICHELIN Guide Québec 2026 · 20 km
- Beba #27 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants 2026 · 21 km
- Le Violon #15 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants 2026 · 16 km
- Montréal Plaza #22 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants 2025 · 14 km
5545 Bd des Rossignols, Laval, QC H7L 5S7Book
Screenshot of escaparium.ca #8 · TERPECA 2025Passively scaryLa Cathédrale Oubliée (The Forgotten Cathedral)
Escaparium · Laval · 18 km from Montreal
A guided tour of a centuries-old cathedral inside the Escaparium complex, once the sanctuary of an extinct cult the site calls 'The Order'.[2]
Award-winning restaurants nearby (5)
- Mon Lapin #5 (The Best Restaurant in East Canada 2026) · North America's 50 Best Restaurants 2026 · 14 km
- Sabayon 1 Star · MICHELIN Guide Québec 2026 · 20 km
- Beba #27 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants 2026 · 21 km
- Le Violon #15 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants 2026 · 16 km
- Montréal Plaza #22 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants 2025 · 14 km
5545 Bd des Rossignols, Laval, QC H7L 5S7Book- #19 · TERPECA 2025Passively scary
Le Château du Supplice Éternel (The Castle of Eternal Suffering)
Sauve Qui Peut · Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu · 33 km from Montreal
Hikers following a trail left off every map through a fogbound forest come upon ruins: a towering, half-shattered castle frozen in time.[2]
Physical and multi-room, with tight passages; the company does not recommend it as a first escape game.[2]
130 Rue Richelieu, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC J3B 6X4Book 
Screenshot of escaparium.ca #36 · TERPECA 2025No horrorArmoire à Vendre (Wardrobe for Sale)
Escaparium · Laval · 18 km from Montreal
A maple wardrobe once owned by the writer Monsieur Jack holds the echoes of his stories, and opening its doors leads into them.[2]
Award-winning restaurants nearby (5)
- Mon Lapin #5 (The Best Restaurant in East Canada 2026) · North America's 50 Best Restaurants 2026 · 14 km
- Sabayon 1 Star · MICHELIN Guide Québec 2026 · 20 km
- Beba #27 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants 2026 · 21 km
- Le Violon #15 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants 2026 · 16 km
- Montréal Plaza #22 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants 2025 · 14 km
5545 Bd des Rossignols, Laval, QC H7L 5S7Book
Screenshot of escaparium.ca #78 · TERPECA 2025SpookyL'Île perdue de la Reine Vaudou (The Lost Island of the Voodoo Queen)
Escaparium · Laval · 18 km from Montreal
Sent by the Admiral, a crew searches for the Lost Island of the Voodoo Queen to learn the secret of what is called 'eternal loneliness'.[2]
Award-winning restaurants nearby (5)
- Mon Lapin #5 (The Best Restaurant in East Canada 2026) · North America's 50 Best Restaurants 2026 · 14 km
- Sabayon 1 Star · MICHELIN Guide Québec 2026 · 20 km
- Beba #27 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants 2026 · 21 km
- Le Violon #15 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants 2026 · 16 km
- Montréal Plaza #22 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants 2025 · 14 km
5545 Bd des Rossignols, Laval, QC H7L 5S7Book
Screenshot of escaparium.ca #79 · TERPECA 2025No horrorLe Plan (Escape Plan)
Escaparium · Dorval · 17 km from Montreal
A coffee at the new café-boutique in the Escaparium complex turns into something else when the calm is suddenly broken.[2]
Escaparium's Montreal branch is in Dorval, on the Trans-Canada Highway near the airport, not downtown.[2]
Award-winning restaurants nearby (5)
- Mon Lapin #5 (The Best Restaurant in East Canada 2026) · North America's 50 Best Restaurants 2026 · 15 km
- Sabayon 1 Star · MICHELIN Guide Québec 2026 · 17 km
- Beba #27 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants 2026 · 17 km
- Le Violon #15 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants 2026 · 17 km
- Montréal Plaza #22 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants 2025 · 16 km
2064 Route Transcanadienne, Dorval, Québec, Canada H9P 2N4Book
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Get the Canada eSIMPlanning a Laval escape-room weekend
Magnifico runs 150 minutes and the other Laval rooms 75 to 120, per Escaparium's own pages. Most need at least four players, so smaller groups should check the player range on each card before booking.
Our take: plan two rooms a day rather than three. Start with Magnifico while you are fresh, and keep Ctrl Alt Reboot and The Forgotten Cathedral for the second day. The Sauve Qui Peut castle is a separate half-day trip and the more physical game of the set.
Award-winning restaurants near each room are listed on its card, from our Montreal restaurant guide.
How the ranking works
TERPECA asks experienced players, not owners or critics, to rank the rooms they have played. Nominators have played at least 200 rooms and voters at least 100, and nobody may vote for a room they are connected to. Every eligible room has to be bookable in English, which is why the list is useful to travellers: a room on it can be played without speaking the local language. The full method, and TERPECA's own caveat that regions with fewer enthusiast visitors are under-represented, is on its methodology page.
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Methodology
How we did this comparison
Ranks and horror ratings are TERPECA's 2025 Top Room results. TERPECA (Top Escape Rooms Project Enthusiasts' Choice Award) is run by enthusiasts: in October, nominators who have played at least 200 rooms each put forward up to 10 rooms, and in November voters who have played at least 100 rank every finalist they have played, with owners and staff barred from voting for their own rooms. Only rooms playable in English are eligible. For 2025, 734 nominators made 6,630 nominations and TERPECA named 100 Top Rooms; a few more appear as Top Rooms without a rank of their own, usually an alternate version or one part of a combined game. TERPECA's horror levels run from no horror, through spooky (horror theming without scares) and passively scary (darkness or tension without many startles), to actively scary (jump scares or simulated attacks).
Players, game length, languages, addresses and booking links come from each room's own website, read on 30 October 2026, and every figure links to the page it came from. We do not rank rooms ourselves and nothing here is paid for. Planning notes marked "Our take" are ours. Map positions are geocoded from each room's published address. Rooms whose own website was offline or could not be checked are not listed. Rooms close and change format, so check the room's own site before you travel.
Sources & references
We verify carrier and regulator pricing directly from primary sources before publishing. Pricing is current as of the article's last update — always confirm rates on the carrier's site before you travel.
- TERPECA 2025 Top Rooms results — TERPECA
- TERPECA: how the ranking works — TERPECA
- TERPECA FAQ: horror levels — TERPECA
- Escaparium, Magnifico: room page — Escaparium
- Escaparium: FAQ — Escaparium
- Magnifico: booking — Escaparium
- Escaparium, Ctrl Alt Reboot: room page — Escaparium
- Escaparium, La Cathédrale Oubliée: room page — Escaparium
- Sauve Qui Peut, Le Château du Supplice Éternel: room page — Sauve Qui Peut
- Sauve Qui Peut: Contact and address — Sauve Qui Peut
- Le Château du Supplice Éternel (The Castle of Eternal Suffering): booking — Sauve Qui Peut
- Escaparium, Armoire à Vendre: room page — Escaparium
- Escaparium, L'Île perdue de la Reine Vaudou: room page — Escaparium
- Escaparium, Le Plan: room page — Escaparium
- Escaparium: FAQ — Escaparium
- Le Plan (Escape Plan): booking — Escaparium
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Last updated: October 30, 2026