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The games
What is an offsite escape game?
An offsite escape game is a live, facilitated, immersive experience where teams solve puzzles to escape within a set time, held at a venue of your choice rather than a fixed escape room. Our hosts are physically present, often in costume, and the format scales from 10 to more than 1,000 people.
How many people can take part?
We run games for groups of roughly 10 to 1,000+ people. Our minimum is 10 pax, and we scale all the way to 1,000+. Different games have different maximum capacities, from 50 up to 1,000, so we will match the game to your headcount.
Where are the games held?
The game is built for a place and then played in it: the ten courts of Haw Par Villa, the tunnels and ramparts of Fort Siloso on Sentosa, the wartime bunker under Fort Canning, the galleries of the Asian Civilisations Museum, the shophouse streets of Chinatown, and River Wonders. Four of those run entirely outdoors: Whisper of the Guardians through Chinatown, Lost Treasure of Sarang Rimau at Fort Siloso, Journey to the End and Back through Haw Par Villa and River Lockdown around River Wonders. Several games can also travel to any indoor venue, including your own office or ballroom, or a space we help you find.
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Pricing and booking
How much does an offsite escape game cost?
The total is a game fee plus venue admission and venue fees. The game fee is a fixed fee plus SGD 20 per person: Standard, the self-guided option, starts at SGD 300 fixed, and Immersive at SGD 1,100 fixed. Both run on MazeFox, our own web app, and both come with one of our staff hosting the game. The immersive option adds cosplay facilitators around the venue. For larger self-guided groups the effective rate works out from about SGD 23 per person. Admission and venue fees depend on the venue you choose. We are non-GST registered, and large-group discounts are available. Use our instant estimate tool for a quick figure, then we will confirm the details.
How do we book an event?
It is a five-step process. Choose your game, add any extras such as catering or transport, receive a tailored proposal from our events team, confirm the event, then enjoy your game day. Start by requesting a proposal and we will take it from there.
What payment methods do you accept?
Bank transfer (PayNow UEN and a credit-card payment link), government portals including Vendors@Gov and GeBIZ, and company-specific vendor-management portals. We are non-GST registered.
Can we add catering, transport or prizes?
Yes. We can build in catering, transport, prizes, additional activities and more. Let us know what you have in mind and we will include it in your proposal.
Can government agencies procure through Vendors@Gov or GeBIZ?
Yes. We work with government portals including Vendors@Gov and GeBIZ, and we have run events for agencies across the public sector. Share your procurement requirements in your enquiry.
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Can individuals join a public session?
Yes. We run roughly one public session a month that individuals and small groups can join. Tickets go on sale at our Eventbrite page. Sign up to our list to hear about the next session first.
Is the HarbourFront outlet still open?
Our HarbourFront retail outlet closes permanently at the end of July 2026 as we focus fully on offsite games. If you are looking for a physical escape room, one of our event partners, Lockdown Escape at Marina Square, runs 60-minute rooms.
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What is a good team building activity in Singapore for a large group?
A facilitated offsite escape game works well for large Singapore teams because it runs the same experience in parallel across many groups, from 10 people up to more than 1,000. Everyone plays at the same venue on the same day, so no department has to sit it out. It suits company D&Ds, department offsites, conferences and family days.
What is the difference between team bonding and team building?
Team building usually aims at a skill, such as communication or problem-solving. Team bonding aims at the relationship, so people leave actually knowing and trusting each other. A facilitated escape game does both at once: colleagues solve a shared case under a running clock, which builds the skill and the bond in the same afternoon.
What does a team building company in Singapore do?
A team building company plans and runs the event for you: it matches an activity to your group size and goals, handles the venue, facilitators, run sheet and any catering, transport or prizes, and runs the day on site. We do this as a facilitated offsite escape game for teams of 10 to 1,000+, and have done since 2013.
Is escape room team building suitable for large groups?
Yes, if the game is built to scale. A fixed retail escape room usually seats six to eight, so a big group has to queue or split across sessions. Our offsite version runs the same case in parallel across many teams at one venue, from 10 pax up to more than 1,000 on a single day.
What is an amazing race team building event?
An amazing race is an outdoor team game where small teams move between checkpoints across a district or venue, solving a clue or completing a challenge at each one, racing a clock and each other. Ours are story-led: instead of generic stations, teams follow one case through the real streets of Chinatown, the ramparts of Fort Siloso or the paths of Haw Par Villa, with facilitators stationed along the route. Groups run from 10 to 1,000+ pax.
How does an offsite escape game actually work?
We bring the game to a venue instead of you coming to a room. On the day our host briefs everyone at once, splits the group into small teams, and starts the clock. Each team plays the same two-hour case on their own phones through MazeFox, our own web app, with a physical kit of props and puzzles to work through. MazeFox sends every team down a different order of stops, so hundreds of people can play the same game at the same time without queueing at any one puzzle. It ends with a scoreboard and a reveal.
Is this an escape room?
It is an escape room game, but it does not run in an escape room. Instead of booking a small fixed room for 6 people, we bring the game to a venue: a museum, a WWII fort on Sentosa, a wildlife park, or your own office or function space. Teams play in parallel, indoors and outdoors, which is why the format takes 10 to 1,000+ people while a retail escape room takes 6 at a time. We ran physical escape rooms in Singapore from 2013, so it is the same puzzle craft at a size that fits a whole company.
How do I organise team building in Singapore?
Settle three things first: your headcount, a rough date, and whether you want it at your own office or at a Singapore venue. Send those to us and our events team replies within one business day with a tailored proposal covering the game, venue, facilitators and any catering, transport or prizes. You confirm the date, and we run the day.
What are good team bonding activities in Singapore for a large group?
For a large group, pick a format that runs the same experience in parallel across many teams at one venue on one day, so nobody sits out. Our offsite escape games do this from 10 pax up to more than 1,000, at venues such as River Wonders, Fort Siloso and Haw Par Villa, or at your own office. They suit company D&Ds, department offsites, conferences and family days.
How do we choose a team building company in Singapore?
Check three things: whether they have genuinely run events at your headcount, whether the pricing is transparent with no hidden per-head extras, and whether they can procure the way you need to pay. We run groups from 10 to more than 1,000, price as a clear game fee plus venue costs with no GST, and accept PayNow, Vendors@Gov, GeBIZ and company vendor portals.
How is an offsite escape game different from a walk-in escape room?
A walk-in room is a fixed set you visit in a small group for about an hour. Our offsite escape game comes to a venue of your choice, is run live by costumed facilitators, and scales to your whole team. It is booked as a curated group event through a proposal, not seat by seat.
What is the difference between an amazing race, a treasure hunt and a scavenger hunt?
A scavenger hunt asks you to find or photograph a list of things, in any order. A treasure hunt gives you a chain of clues where each answer points to the next place. An amazing race adds checkpoints with tasks and a live race element, so teams compete on time as well as on solving. Our outdoor games sit in the middle of all three: a clue chain with staffed checkpoints, scored on time, wrapped in a story rather than a worksheet.
What do you need from our venue?
For a game at your own place: a room big enough to seat your teams, and somewhere for us to set up at the front. That is genuinely it. No projector, no special power, no app for anyone to download, because MazeFox runs in an ordinary phone browser. For a game at one of our venues, such as Haw Par Villa, Fort Siloso or the Asian Civilisations Museum, we deal with the venue and fold any admission or venue-hire cost into the one proposal.
How much does team building in Singapore cost?
The total is a game fee plus venue admission and venue fees. The game fee is a fixed fee plus SGD 20 per person: Standard, self-guided with one staff host, starts at SGD 300 fixed, and Immersive, which adds cosplay facilitators, at SGD 1,100 fixed. For larger self-guided groups the effective rate works out from about SGD 23 per person. We are non-GST registered, and large-group discounts are available.
How much do team bonding activities cost in Singapore?
The total is a game fee plus venue admission and venue fees. The game fee is a fixed fee plus SGD 20 per person: Standard, self-guided with one staff host, starts at SGD 300 fixed, and Immersive, which adds cosplay facilitators, at SGD 1,100 fixed. For larger self-guided groups the effective rate works out from about SGD 23 per person. We are non-GST registered, and large-group discounts are available.
How long has The Escape Artist been running team building events?
Since 2013. We have run facilitated escape games for corporate and MNC teams, government and public-sector agencies, and schools and universities across Singapore, at scales from a single team of 10 up to company-wide events of more than 1,000 people.
How many people can do an escape room team building event?
From 10 pax up to more than 1,000, depending on the game. Individual games have maximum capacities from 50 up to 1,000, so we match the game to your headcount and run enough parallel teams for everyone to play at once.
How large a group can an outdoor race in Singapore take?
Up to 1,000 pax at Fort Siloso, Haw Par Villa and River Wonders, and up to 200 through Chinatown. The group splits into teams and each team works the route in its own order, so the site never bottlenecks and nobody spends the morning queueing at one checkpoint.
How do you run a game for several hundred people without queues?
You tell us how to split the group into teams, and MazeFox gives every team a different route through the same story, so no two teams arrive at the same puzzle at the same moment. Everyone starts together and everyone finishes together. That is how the same game runs for 10 pax or for more than 1,000 on a single day.
Can team building run at our own office?
Yes. Several of our games run at any indoor venue, including your office or a function room. Others are set at Singapore venues such as River Wonders, Fort Siloso and Battlebox at Fort Canning. Tell us the space you have, and we will match a game to it.
Can a team bonding session run at our own office?
Yes. Several of our games run at any indoor venue, including your office, a function room or a ballroom. Others are set at Singapore venues. Tell us the space you have and your headcount, and we will match a game to it.
Do you handle everything on the day?
Yes. You brief us once. Our facilitators arrive, set up the game, run the whole experience, often in costume, keep score and manage the clock. Catering, transport, prizes and extra activities are ours to arrange too. Your team, including HR, gets to play rather than run logistics.
Where can we do escape room team building in Singapore?
At venues across Singapore, including River Wonders, Sentosa's Fort Siloso, Haw Par Villa, the Asian Civilisations Museum, Chinatown and Battlebox at Fort Canning. Several games can also run at any indoor venue, including your own office.
Where can we run an amazing race in Singapore?
Chinatown for a heritage street route, Fort Siloso on Sentosa for a coastal fort with tunnels and ramparts, Haw Par Villa for the most atmospheric park in Singapore, and River Wonders for a wildlife-park setting. Each location has its own game written for it, so the route and the story belong to that place rather than being dropped onto it.
How long does the whole thing take?
The game itself runs about two hours. Add roughly half an hour on the front for arrival, briefing and team formation, and another half hour at the end for the reveal, scores and photos. So block out three hours for the activity. Most clients build it into a half day and add catering, or attach it to a dinner and dance in the evening.
Do you run outdoor escape rooms in Singapore?
Yes. Four of our games are played entirely outdoors: Whisper of the Guardians through Chinatown, Lost Treasure of Sarang Rimau across Fort Siloso on Sentosa, Journey to the End and Back through Haw Par Villa, and River Lockdown around River Wonders. They work the way an escape room does, with a story, a clue chain and a running clock, except the ground is a real place instead of a set. Facilitators are on the route in costume, so it is a staffed game rather than a self-guided app trail.
How much does an outdoor escape room cost in Singapore?
The same as our indoor games: a fixed game fee plus SGD 20 per person. Standard is SGD 300 fixed and self-guided on our MazeFox web app with one of our staff hosting, so 100 pax works out at about SGD 23 a head. Immersive is SGD 1,100 fixed and adds cosplay facilitators around the route. On top of that sit the venue's own fees, which for the outdoor games means an admission ticket at River Wonders and venue hire at Haw Par Villa. Fort Siloso and Chinatown need neither. We are non-GST registered, so there is no GST on top.
Which outdoor escape game works for a large group?
Fort Siloso, Haw Par Villa and River Wonders each take up to 1,000 pax, and Chinatown takes 200. Scale is where outdoor games usually fall over, so we split the group into teams and give each team its own order of stops. No two teams are at the same point at the same time, so nobody queues. Every route also has sheltered hold points, and rain pauses the clock rather than ending the game.
Why choose an escape game over other team building activities?
An escape game gives everyone a shared problem and a running clock, which is what actually gets a team delegating, communicating and thinking together. Unlike a talk or a buffet, no one is a spectator. We have run these for corporate, government and education teams across Singapore since 2013.
What skills does escape game team building actually build?
Four, and you can watch all four happen. Problem solving under a clock, because the puzzles do not yield to one clever person working alone. Communication, because a clue found by one person is worthless until it is said out loud. Delegation, because two hours is not enough time to do everything together. And decision making with incomplete information, which is the closest thing a game can get to a real work day.
What happens if it rains?
Every outdoor route has sheltered hold points and the game pauses rather than ends, so teams wait out a passing shower and the clock stops for everyone. If the forecast is bad ahead of the day we will offer you an indoor game or a new date. We have been running these since 2013, and Singapore weather has not been a surprise yet.
What do we have to do on the day?
Turn up. Our host runs the briefing, the game and the finish, and on an Immersive booking cosplay facilitators are stationed around the venue as well. The person who organised it should be playing, not managing a run sheet, so the standing offer is that you join a team and we handle the day.
Is an escape game a good problem-solving activity for a corporate team?
It is one of the few formats where problem solving is the activity rather than a debrief topic. Teams get a sequence of puzzles, a shared goal and a visible timer, so quiet people who spot patterns become useful immediately and the group has to notice that in real time. We run it for 10 to 1,000+ pax, so a whole department can do it on the same day instead of in batches.
How much does an amazing race cost in Singapore?
Total cost is the game fee plus SGD 20 per person, plus any venue admission or venue hire. The game fee is SGD 300 for Standard, which is self-guided on our MazeFox app with one staff host, or SGD 1,100 for Immersive, which adds cosplay facilitators along the route. That works out from about SGD 23 per person for larger groups. We are non-GST registered, so there is no GST on top. There is an instant estimate at /get-a-quote.
What happens if a team gets stuck?
MazeFox gives progressive hints in the app, so a team nudges itself along without a facilitator having to hand over the answer, and nobody sits stranded on one puzzle while the rest of the room moves on. On an Immersive booking there are facilitators in character around the venue who can step in as well. A wrong answer sets a playful forfeit rather than a dead end.
How much does an escape room game cost in Singapore?
Ours are priced as one event rather than per seat. The game fee is a one-off fixed fee plus SGD 20 per person: SGD 300 fixed for Standard, which is self-guided on our MazeFox web app with one of our staff hosting, or SGD 1,100 fixed for Immersive, which adds cosplay facilitators around the venue. So a 50-pax Standard game is SGD 1,300, or SGD 26 per person, and a 200-pax Standard game is SGD 4,300, or SGD 21.50 per person. Venue admission and an exclusive-space venue fee can apply depending on the game. We are non-GST registered, so no GST is added.
What is the cheapest way to run an escape game for a team?
Pick Standard rather than Immersive, bring a bigger group, and choose a game that runs at your own office or seminar room. Only the fixed half of the fee is fixed, so the rate per person drops as the group grows: SGD 50 per person at 10 pax, SGD 26 at 50, SGD 23 at 100 and about SGD 21 at 200. Running at your own venue removes the venue fee, and games with no paid attraction attached remove the admission fee.
Is there GST on top of the quoted price?
No. The Escape Artist is non-GST registered, so the figure we quote is the figure you pay. Any venue admission or venue hire arranged through a third party is passed on at cost and may carry its own GST, which we show separately in the proposal.
Can a learning journey be run as an escape game?
Yes. We write the puzzles around what is actually on display at the venue, so a learning journey at the Asian Civilisations Museum, the Singapore Maritime Gallery, the Battlebox or Haw Par Villa becomes a game the students play in teams. They read the exhibits because the answers are in them. A run takes about 1.5 to 2 hours and we can put a whole level through it in one morning, in waves or all at once.
Which venues can we do a learning journey at?
The games are already written and tested at the Asian Civilisations Museum, the Singapore Maritime Gallery, the Battlebox at Fort Canning, Haw Par Villa, Fort Siloso and River Wonders. If your school has a different venue in mind, or wants the game on campus, we can build for that too. Venue admission is charged by the venue and we set it out separately in the quote.
How many students can join a learning journey?
From 10 to more than 1,000. A single class runs as one game; a whole cohort runs in waves or in parallel teams across the venue, with our facilitators holding the timing. Teachers walk with their class rather than manning stations.
Does this work for VIA, orientation camps or post-exam programmes?
Yes. The same game covers values in action projects, freshman orientation, CCA and cohort bonding, and the post-exam weeks when a level needs something to do that is not another talk. Tell us the outcome you want out of the day and we shape the brief and the debrief around it.
What is a puzzle hunt?
A puzzle hunt is a timed game where teams work through a chain of linked puzzles, each answer opening the next, until someone finishes the story. It is the same craft as an escape room, without the room: the puzzles are spread across a venue, a neighbourhood or a park, so hundreds of people can play the same game at the same time. Most people in Singapore call it an escape game. Puzzle hunt is the name used by people who play them for fun.
Is a puzzle hunt the same as an escape room?
Nearly. A retail escape room locks 6 to 8 people in a themed set for 60 minutes. A puzzle hunt takes the same puzzle chain outside and runs it for 10 to 1,000 people at once, at a museum, a fort, a wildlife park or your own office. Nobody is locked in, the teams move, and the clock still runs. We built and ran physical escape rooms in Singapore from 2013 before we moved the games offsite, so the puzzles come from the same workshop.
What is the difference between a puzzle hunt and an amazing race?
An amazing race is scored on how fast you get between checkpoints and finish the task waiting at each one. A puzzle hunt is scored on solving: the next location is the answer to the last puzzle, so a team that thinks well beats a team that runs fast. Plenty of Singapore companies ask us for an amazing race and describe a puzzle hunt, because the race is the name they know from television. We run both, and we will tell you which one your brief is actually describing.
What is a large-scale escape game?
An escape game built for a whole company rather than one team. The puzzle chain is spread across a venue so every team plays at once on its own order of stops, with facilitators holding the timing at each point. That is how 600 people at Fort Siloso is a run sheet rather than a queue. Singapore has only a handful of operators running games at this size; we have been doing it since 2013.
How many people do you need for a puzzle hunt?
Ten is our minimum and 1,000-plus is the largest we have run. You tell us how to split the group into teams: some clients want fours, some want twelves, and we build the run sheet around that. The game fee is a fixed fee plus a per-person rate, so the cost per head falls as the group grows.
Do you need to be good at puzzles to enjoy one?
No. The puzzles are built so that a mixed team gets further than a team of specialists: some need observation, some need someone willing to talk to a stranger in costume, some need someone who reads instructions properly. Facilitators give escalating hints rather than answers, so nobody is stuck long enough to check out of the game.
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