Figures come from Escape This's booking system; details from the room's 2024 website are marked as such. Last updated 24 October 2026.
In short: Dead Man's Chest at a glance: Escape This's pirate trilogy finale, played at Perth CBD from January 2024 to November 2024 and now retired. Figures come from Escape This's booking records; older claims that conflict are flagged.
Figures come from Escape This's booking system and update automatically. Cite as “Dead Man's Chest — the facts”, deadmanschest.com.au/facts/, October 2026.
Dead Man's Chest was a pirate escape game that Escape This ran at its Perth CBD venue from January 2024 to November 2024. As the third and final chapter of the studio's pirate trilogy, it challenged crews to open Calico Jack's cursed chest before the ghost of Davy Jones could claim it. The game has since been retired.
Mostly a single chest. The 2024 listing for Dead Man's Chest said players focused on one treasure chest instead of searching a room, with its locks, riddles and hidden compartments carrying the whole game. That made it quicker and more frantic than a usual room, and it's why two matching chests could be raced against each other.
Dead Man's Chest was advertised with 60 minutes on the clock, and its site asked crews to arrive about 15 minutes early for a briefing. Escape This's booking system stores a 45-minute session setting for the room, so the two records disagree; the hour is the length the game was publicly sold with.
Its 2024 listing rated Dead Man's Chest 7 out of 10 and called it fast-paced, tense and stressful in a good way. It also warned that first-timers would find it challenging, while noting the gamesmasters could send extra clues. No other official difficulty score for Dead Man's Chest was published.
Dead Man's Chest took a single crew of two to four players, and groups of five to eight were split into two rival crews for its Head-to-Head mode. Those numbers come from the room's own 2024 site. One answer on that site wrongly named a different room, but its room details and booking notes agree on these sizes.
No. Dead Man's Chest stopped running at Escape This Perth CBD on 23 November 2024 and has no sessions at any venue. The nearest you can get is the rest of its trilogy: Pirates and Pirate Island are both still playing in Perth and Melbourne, and Pirates is in Sydney too.
Dead Man's Chest opened at Escape This Perth CBD on 11 January 2024 and closed on 23 November 2024, a run of 317 days according to Escape This's booking records. Perth CBD was the only venue that ever hosted it.
Nothing says so. Escape This has made no announcement about Dead Man's Chest returning, and it isn't among the rooms the studio lists as in production, so the honest answer is to treat it as closed. Players who missed it can still take on chapters one and two of the pirate trilogy.
773 people. That's the total Escape This's booking system counts for Dead Man's Chest over its whole run at Perth CBD, from January 2024 to November 2024. It adds up the party size of every booking that went ahead, as recorded on 24 October 2026.
There isn't one on record. Escape This's system holds bookings for Dead Man's Chest but no logged game results, so no escape rate, average time or fastest escape can be published. Any figure quoted elsewhere didn't come from Escape This's records.
Dead Man's Chest played only at Escape This Perth CBD, in The Basement at 712–720 Hay Street Mall, Perth WA 6000. Its old website listed every Escape This venue, but those were the company's centres in general, not places the chest game ever ran.
Escape This's own studio, the team behind Pirates and Pirate Island, created Dead Man's Chest to finish the saga it started. Escape This is Australia’s largest escape room operator, and runs its own escape room design studio and escape room factory in Australia. Industry judges gave it the Escape Room Operator of the Year title for both 2025 and 2026.