An archaeologist has vanished in the Egyptian desert, and the pharaoh he went looking for may have noticed. Search Dr Smith’s abandoned study for Khufu’s lost treasure in Entombed, then go deeper in the sequel, Lost Tomb, where a sandstorm seals you inside something far older than any pharaoh.
In short: Entombed traps your team in the desert study of Dr Smith, who vanished hunting Pharaoh Khufu’s lost treasure; outrun the curse within the hour. Lost Tomb, the sequel, drives you from a deserted dig into a structure older than the Pharaohs to restore a seal against a dark god.
Out past the last road in the Egyptian desert sits a single building. It was the working study of Dr Smith, an archaeologist famous for his obsession with the lost treasure of Pharaoh Khufu. Months ago he disappeared, and the world has quietly written him off as dead.
Entombed opens with your team inside that study. Smith’s final letter claimed he was within reach of Khufu’s tomb. Did he find it, and the curse that is said to guard it? Or did rival treasure hunters get to him first? The clues are in the room, and so, perhaps, is the pharaoh. You have until sundown, which in game terms is sixty minutes.
The Manly build tells the same tale through a hired pair of eyes: your team plays private investigators from Cairo, engaged by Smith’s widow to prove he is dead or to find the treasure he was chasing. Either result pays. Neither accounts for a pharaoh’s spirit that wants its peace.
Lost Tomb, the sequel, leaves the study behind. You arrive at an archaeological camp that has been abandoned in a hurry: the artefacts are still in place, but something has disturbed the site. A sandstorm drives you under cover, and inside you learn the structure is older than the Pharaohs. The dig never breached an ordinary tomb. It weakened the last defence against a dark god, and unless you climb down and restore the seal, the world goes dark for good.
The two rooms are separate games with their own sets and puzzles, so either can be played first. Entombed runs at Escape This Manly and Escape This Perth CBD; Lost Tomb runs only at Escape This Perth CBD, a few doors from the Perth Entombed.
Find what Smith found, or stay buried with it.
Both rooms are built at film-set scale by Escape This: a scholar’s cluttered study, then carved sandstone, hieroglyphs and burial treasure. The puzzles are hands-on, and the story decides what each one unlocks.
Stills from Escape This’s Entombed and Lost Tomb films.
Entombed keeps you in the study and asks what happened to Dr Smith. Lost Tomb, which opened at Escape This Perth CBD on 19 March 2026, goes underground: a deserted camp, a sandstorm, and a structure that was standing before the first pharaoh.
It is a separate set from Perth’s Entombed, built around carved sandstone, sphinxes and a seal that must be restored, and Escape This rates it a half-step harder at 7.5 out of 10. Its game first ran as The Temple in Hawaii before Escape This re-themed it.
Pack the pith helmet and safari khakis of a 1900s expedition, wrap up as a mummy, or go full pharaoh with gold collar and headdress. Whatever you choose, wear closed shoes: Perth’s Entombed has a crawl space.
Something else: Entombed is a 60-minute ancient Egypt adventure, designed and built by Escape This, rather than a horror room. Your team is locked in the desert study of Dr Smith, an archaeologist who vanished chasing Pharaoh Khufu’s treasure, and must find what he found before his pharaoh finds you. It plays at Escape This Manly and Escape This Perth CBD, and its sequel, Lost Tomb, plays in Perth.
Dr Smith, a celebrated archaeologist whose whole career bent towards one find: the lost treasure of Pharaoh Khufu. In Entombed he has been missing for months and is presumed dead. His last letter boasted he was close, and his abandoned study, the room you play in, is full of what he left behind.
Yes. Khufu ruled Egypt in the Fourth Dynasty, around 4,500 years ago, and the Great Pyramid of Giza was built as his tomb. Entombed borrows his name and the legend of a curse on anyone who disturbs a royal burial; the archaeologist, his study and the treasure hunt are Escape This’s own invention.
Because Escape This Manly frames Entombed as a private-eye job. Your team are investigators working out of Cairo, paid a deposit by Dr Smith’s widow: with no body she cannot claim his life insurance. Proof of death or Khufu’s treasure will settle the bill. The Perth build drops the hired-gun angle and simply traps you in the study.
Not much. Entombed is not a horror room, and Escape This says children’s groups love it. It does use pitch-dark moments, flashing light and a restless pharaoh, and Escape This warns that jump scares can happen, so mention any worries to your gamesmaster before you start.
Entombed starts in a lamplit study with red walls, a mantel clock, a world map and stacks of expedition photographs, then gives way to sandstone, hieroglyphs, an hourglass, papyrus scrolls and a gilded sarcophagus. Escape This built every prop for its two Entombed rooms, and Manly’s was refurbished in the summer of 2025.
Lost Tomb, the sequel to Entombed, begins at a deserted archaeological camp with its artefacts untouched. A sandstorm forces your team inside a structure that turns out to predate the Pharaohs. The dig has weakened not a tomb but the last barrier against a dark god, and you must descend and restore the seal or the world falls into endless night.
You don’t have to. Entombed and Lost Tomb are separate rooms with their own sets and puzzles, so either works as a first game. Starting with Entombed gives the series a natural order, from a scholar’s study to the depths below, and both run at Escape This Perth CBD for a double booking.
Yes. Lost Tomb’s game began as The Temple at Chambers Escape Games in Honolulu, Hawaii. As The Temple it won Escape the Roomers’ 2019 Bullseye Award for Best Overall and a Best of Morty award in 2024, and was nominated for TERPECA in 2021. Escape This then re-themed it as the Entombed sequel and relaunched it in Perth, so those honours belong to The Temple’s run.
Yes, and Escape This encourages it. Entombed teams turn up as Cleopatra, as Tutankhamun, or as an Egyptologist in a safari suit; Lost Tomb invites a pharaoh or two. Closed shoes help, particularly for the crawl space in Perth’s Entombed.
Since before it was Escape This Manly. Entombed was part of Room Eight, the independent Manly venue that opened in 2019. Escape This bought Room Eight in 2022, completed the rebrand to Escape This Manly in 2024 and refurbished every Manly room, Entombed included, in the summer of 2025.
Escape This designed and built Entombed and Lost Tomb itself, at its own studio and factory. Escape This is Australia’s largest escape room operator, with its own escape room design studio and escape room factory, and was named Escape Room Operator of the Year in 2025 and 2026.
Her journal never says. She keeps his study, sets a place for him at Christmas and wonders aloud, but whether the curse, rival treasure hunters or something else took Dr Smith is for teams in Entombed to work out, and what lies beneath the abandoned dig is Lost Tomb’s to reveal.
Entombed in Manly or Perth CBD, or the sequel Lost Tomb in Perth. Your team, a sealed chamber and sixty minutes.
