The Netherlands has eight rooms in TERPECA's 2025 Top Rooms, and half of them are around The Hague and Leiden: Molly's Game in Voorburg (#13), Pray in Katwijk (#35), The Non Believers in Leiden (#58) and Midnite in Rijswijk (#92). The Dome at Mama Bazooka in Bunschoten (#21) and Zoltar Speaks in Hilversum (#82) are between Amsterdam and Utrecht. Sherlocked's The Alchemist (#45) is inside Amsterdam's Beurs van Berlage, and Escape the Wild West (#83) is in the village of Veessen.
Key takeaways
- Highest ranked: Molly's Game (#13), The Dome (#21) and Pray (#35).
- 8 TERPECA 2025 Top Rooms here. Horror ratings: 4 no horror, 2 spooky, 1 passively scary and 1 actively scary.
- Four ranked rooms within about 20 km of The Hague.
- 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.
The Hague and Leiden
4 TERPECA Top Rooms.
Screenshot of ustories.nl #13 · TERPECA 2025SpookyMolly's Game
Untold Stories Experiences · Voorburg
- 2–5 players[2]
- 90 minutes, including intro and outro[2]
- Dutch, English[3]
- Age: 16+; younger players (14-15 per the FAQ) only with at least two adults[3]
On 19 November 1971, Dr. Dan Kowalski hears a voice in his silent practice and is drawn into a game; players enter his house to find out what happened that day.[2]
The whole room is bilingual, so there is no separate English version to book.[2]
Populierendreef 966, 2272 HW Voorburg, NetherlandsBook
Screenshot of escaperoomkatwijk.com #35 · TERPECA 2025Passively scaryPray
Escape Room Katwijk · Katwijk · 15 km from The Hague and Leiden
A family member has been killed escaping the prison Cruz la Muerte, and you attend her private farewell service at the funeral home The Last Honor, led by director J. Green.[2]
The room is in the building next to Sandtlaan 52a.[3]
Sandtlaan 52a, 2223GG Katwijk (Z-H), NetherlandsBook
Screenshot of your-escape.nl #58 · TERPECA 2025SpookyThe Non Believers
Your Escape · Leiden · 18 km from The Hague and Leiden
In the village of Pittleburg, the respected parish priest's five children miss Sunday mass and the priest vanishes after the service; players enter the family home to find out why.[2]
Flevoweg 13, 2318 BZ Leiden, NetherlandsBook
Screenshot of outerground.com #92 · TERPECA 2025Actively scaryMidnite
OuterGround Escape Rooms · Rijswijk
Your group buys tickets to a Midnight Movie Special at a seemingly normal cinema, where the odd host seems to be the only employee and strange noises suggest you are not alone.[2]
Diepenhorstlaan 11C, 2288 EW Rijswijk, NetherlandsBook
Utrecht
2 TERPECA Top Rooms.
Screenshot of escaperoom.nl #21 · TERPECA 2025No horrorThe Dome
Mama Bazooka · Bunschoten-Spakenburg · 23 km from Utrecht
Your team takes part in tests at THE DOME research facility run by Dr. Hung, while the unstable Hector undergoes treatment in your test chamber; finish all 10 tests in 60 minutes.[2]
Nijverheidsweg 5b, 3751 LP Bunschoten, NetherlandsBook
Screenshot of escapecafehilversum.nl #82 · TERPECA 2025No horrorZoltar Spreekt (Zoltar Speaks)
Escape Cafe Hilversum · Hilversum · 15 km from Utrecht
Players sneak into a shady antique shop holding an arcade cabinet enchanted by the merchant Zoltar, open a gateway to the 15th century and try to defeat a greedy Sultan.[2]
Three minutes' walk from Hilversum station.[2]
Spuisteeg 3, 1211 CZ Hilversum, NetherlandsBook
Amsterdam
1 TERPECA Top Room.
Screenshot of sherlocked.nl #45 · TERPECA 2025No horrorThe Alchemist
Sherlocked · Amsterdam
A magical escape room full of technomagic and smoking potions, built around a dangerous ancient ritual, inside Amsterdam's historic Beurs van Berlage.[2]
Inside the Beurs van Berlage; 56 steps up and no lift.[2]
Beursplein 1, Amsterdam, NetherlandsBook
Zwolle
1 TERPECA Top Room.
Screenshot of escapeveessen.nl #83 · TERPECA 2025No horrorEscape the Wild West
Escape Veessen · Veessen · 15 km from Zwolle
A 180-square-metre set takes you to 1850 and the deserted Wild West town of Dusty Creek, once home to Jim Skookum, to solve the town's mystery within 90 minutes.[3]
A rural venue between Zwolle, Apeldoorn and Deventer.[3]
Hogeweg 17, 8194 LN Veessen, NetherlandsBook
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Sherlocked says all its rooms are created in English. Molly's Game is bilingual throughout, so there is no separate English version to book. Untold Stories and Your Escape are closed on Tuesdays, per their sites.
Our take: The Hague makes the best base, with four rooms within about 20 km. Add Amsterdam for The Alchemist, and Hilversum on the way to Bunschoten.
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
- Untold Stories Experiences, Molly's Game: room page — Untold Stories Experiences
- Untold Stories Experiences: FAQ — Untold Stories Experiences
- Untold Stories Experiences: Contact and address — Untold Stories Experiences
- Molly's Game: booking — Untold Stories Experiences
- Mama Bazooka, The Dome: room page — Mama Bazooka
- Mama Bazooka: Practical information — Mama Bazooka
- Mama Bazooka: Contact and address — Mama Bazooka
- The Dome: booking — Mama Bazooka
- Escape Room Katwijk, Pray: room page — Escape Room Katwijk
- Escape Room Katwijk: Contact and address — Escape Room Katwijk
- Pray: booking — Escape Room Katwijk
- Sherlocked, The Alchemist: room page — Sherlocked
- The Alchemist: booking — Sherlocked
- Your Escape, The Non Believers: room page — Your Escape
- The Non Believers: booking — Your Escape
- Escape Cafe Hilversum, Zoltar Spreekt: room page — Escape Cafe Hilversum
- Zoltar Spreekt (Zoltar Speaks): booking — Escape Cafe Hilversum
- Escape Veessen: FAQ — Escape Veessen
- Escape Veessen, Escape the Wild West: room page — Escape Veessen
- Escape the Wild West: booking — Escape Veessen
- OuterGround Escape Rooms, Midnite: room page — OuterGround Escape Rooms
- OuterGround Escape Rooms: FAQ — OuterGround Escape Rooms
- Midnite: booking — OuterGround Escape Rooms
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Last updated: October 30, 2026