![]() With each year, we’ve seen additional closures and we are on track to report more closures in 2020 than any other previous year. This does not include temporary closures with the intent to re-open. This includes only permanent closures as reported by the business on their website or social media, and/or as reported by Google, Yelp, or Trip Advisor. ![]() Over the course of 6 years, we’ve tracked 850 escape room facility closures. We plan to update the directory to include a listing of mobile escape room venues in the coming months. While in past years these have been included within the Room Escape Artist US Escape Room Directory, the current directory interface requires a full address and does not include mobile rooms. The count of escape room facilities above includes mobile escape room venues, which we track separately. We include these as well, as long as the escape room is a permanent fixture in the larger venue. ![]() Others operate out of larger entertainment venues such as bowling alleys, arcades, or restaurants. Most escape room facilities are independent operations. We do not include escape rooms that appeared for a weekend, a week, or even a month, in a temporary structure or other facility, but will not operate continually. Our directory only includes established entertainment facilities that continually operate escape rooms (2020’s temporary shutdowns notwithstanding). While we try to find companies as soon as they open, and to check often for closures, our dates don’t necessarily correlate exactly with when a facility opened or closed. DatesĪll dates in our data are when we added a company to our directory or removed it from our directory. A social media page that says “coming soon” is not enough to be listed in the directory or counted in this report. We do not include escape room facilities that might open some day. To be listed in the directory, we require a facility to have their address published on their website and their website to tell us a bit about the business. The Room Escape Artist directory includes some facilities that are not yet open for business, but appear to be opening in the near future. While some facilities only operate a single game, many operate two or three games, and some operate far more. This report does not count individual escape room games. These would be counted as 10 facilities and 2 facilities, respectively. One business owner might operate 10 locations around the country or 2 locations in the same city. These are permanent physical locations where you can go play an escape room. In this report, we count escape room facilities. Some of these temporary closures will eventually become permanent closures, but at this time, we can only report what has already occurred, and not what may occur in the coming months. If the business is communicating the closure as temporary, and as far as we can tell, they plan to reopen the facility, we are counting this as an operational facility for the purpose of this report. In this report, we are not counting temporary closures as closed facilities. Please keep in mind the following nuances as you read this report: Temporary Closuresĭue to COVID-19, many escape room facilities are temporarily closed, and have been for much of 2020. These are two separate datasets, and no one in the escape room industry currently has access to revenue data. It is important to understand that the number of facilities does not represent revenue. That said, compared to the boom of the early years, the decline is small and the number of facilities currently operating in the US (excluding temporary closures) remains stable at 2,250. In 2020, the industry has shrunk slightly in number of facilities, down 4.3%. ![]() The following years introduced incredible growth in the number of escape room facilities: 317% growth in 2015, followed by 800% growth in 2016.īy 2019, facility growth had leveled, growing by just 2%. ![]() In 2014 there were about 2 dozen escape room facilities in the US. This is a 4.3% decrease in the number of facilities since this time last year, when there were 2,350 escape room facilities in the United States. In August 2020, there are more than 2,250 escape room facilities in the United States. In this report dated August 2020, we present a data-driven look at the US escape room industry today, based on the data industry tracking through the Room Escape Artist Escape Room Directory since 2014. While it’s too early to understand the full implications of 2020 on escape room businesses, we can look at some early trends in this industry report. Overall the US escape room industry has adapted rapidly and the long term impact hasn’t been immediate. We published US Escape Room Industry Report – July 2022 on July 30, 2022.Ģ020 has been a difficult year for non-virtual entertainment. ![]()
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