The final chapter has closed, but Calico Jack's ship and island are open for bookings.
In short: Dead Man's Chest has closed, but the first two chapters of its pirate trilogy are still running at Escape This: Pirates in Perth CBD, Sydney CBD and Melbourne CBD, and Pirate Island in Perth CBD, Northbridge and Melbourne CBD, with Sydney CBD from November 2026.
Dead Man's Chest can't be booked any more, but the two chapters that led up to it are running at four Escape This venues. The session times below are live from Escape This's booking system.
Where Calico Jack's saga begins: your crew wakes up as prisoners below decks on his ship and has to break free before he decides what to do with you. Dead Man's Chest crews met the captain here first.
Times not loading? Book Pirates on escapethis.com.au or call (08) 6118 0286.
Times not loading? Book Pirates on escapethis.com.au or call (02) 9173 8535.
Times not loading? Book Pirates on escapethis.com.au or call (03) 7078 8118.
The middle of the saga: ashore on the island where Calico Jack buries his plunder, racing to find it and get off before his sails appear on the horizon. It's the chapter that led straight into Dead Man's Chest.
Times not loading? Book Pirate Island on escapethis.com.au or call (08) 6118 0286.
Times not loading? Book Pirate Island on escapethis.com.au or call (08) 6118 0286.
Times not loading? Book Pirate Island on escapethis.com.au or call (03) 7078 8118.
Sydney CBD gets Pirate Island in November 2026, at 630 George Street. Session times appear on escapepirateisland.com.au once bookings open there.
Dead Man's Chest's Head-to-Head mode has gone, but a large group can still take over more than one pirate room at the same venue. Escape This's group-events team can plan the split, the timing and the rest of the night.
Pirates is chapter one, Pirate Island chapter two and Dead Man's Chest was chapter three. You first break out of Calico Jack's ship, then raid the island where he buries his hoard, and Dead Man's Chest ended the saga with the cursed chest itself. Only the first two chapters can still be played.
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.
No. The 2024 Dead Man's Chest site promised openings in Sydney CBD and Melbourne CBD, but Escape This's records show it only ever ran at Perth CBD. The pirate rooms that did reach the east coast are Pirates, now in Sydney CBD and Melbourne, and Pirate Island, in Melbourne now and Sydney CBD from November 2026.
Not in a matching-chest format that this site can confirm. Head-to-Head retired with Dead Man's Chest, and Escape This's earlier briefcase race has closed as well. A large group today can book Pirates and Pirate Island at the same venue in two crews and compare escapes afterwards; teamescape.com.au handles bigger events.
At Escape This, where both earlier chapters of the Dead Man's Chest saga are still running. Pirates plays at Perth CBD, Sydney CBD and Melbourne CBD; Pirate Island plays at Perth CBD, Northbridge and Melbourne CBD, and opens at Sydney CBD in November 2026. Live session times for all of them are on this site's pirate rooms page.
Start with Pirates if you haven't played it: it opens the saga with your crew locked aboard Calico Jack's ship, the story Dead Man's Chest went on to finish. If you've already escaped the ship, Pirate Island is the next leg, a race to plunder the captain's island stash before he sails back.
Two. Escape This Perth CBD on Hay Street Mall, where Dead Man's Chest used to run, has both Pirates and Pirate Island, and Escape This Northbridge at 48 Lake Street has a second Pirate Island. Either can be booked from this site's pirate rooms page or from the rooms' own sites.
Not to the final chapter, which never left Perth, but the opening chapters are there. Pirates runs at Escape This Sydney CBD on George Street and at Escape This Melbourne CBD on Collins Street, Pirate Island also plays in Melbourne, and it reaches Sydney CBD in November 2026.