Beat the Summer Heat with our INDOOR game at the Texas Capitol!
Escape the Box creates immersive Austin team building activities for corporate teams, conferences, retreats, offsites, and large groups. Each live experience is designed, planned, and hosted by experts in game design, team building, and event production. Teams solve escape-room-style clues, explore Austin landmarks, interact with public art, complete creative challenges, and work together in a playful adventure built for connection.
Escape the Box is a hosted group activity in Austin for companies, conference attendees, visiting teams, private groups, and organizations that want something more memorable than a standard happy hour or seated meeting. Groups can play outdoors in walkable Austin neighborhoods, indoors at your hotel or event venue, or inside the Texas Capitol for a mostly air-conditioned experience.
Good for: Corporate team building, Conference attendee activities, Company retreats and offsites, Large group activities in Austin, Hotel and DMC programs, Indoor summer team building, Client entertainment and celebration events
This original Escape the Box experience is a high-energy outdoor time-travel adventure that turns an iconic neighborhood into a time-bending team challenge. Teams race against the clock to solve escape-game-style clues, explore the city, interact with public art, complete creative challenges, and work together to get Back to the Present.
Armed with vintage maps, cipher wheels, newspapers, telegrams, mixtapes, and mysterious artifacts from across the timeline, players move through a vibrant, walkable district while unlocking clues and piecing together the story.
Active, playful, and built for bonding, this classic adventure delivers movement, laughter, friendly competition, and full-team momentum. The experience culminates in a climactic final challenge where teams race to solve the final puzzle and earn eternal bragging rights as Time Travel Champions of the World!
Featured Neighborhoods: Second Street District; Downtown; East Austin; UT Campus; South Congress; Rainey Street; Seaholm District; The Domain
In this lively, social version of Escape the Box, happy hour gets wildly unstuck in time. Teams roam downtown Austin’s vibrant Second Street District, solving escape-game-style clues, completing creative challenges, and making a few perfectly timed stops for drinks, bites, and mingling along the way.
Armed with vintage maps, cipher wheels, telegrams, mixtapes, newspapers, and mysterious artifacts from across the timeline, players work together to crack codes, unlock clues, take prompted group photos, and put their collective wits to the test.
This experience is ideal for teams that want the bonding and friendly competition of Escape the Box with a more relaxed, celebratory rhythm. It is part puzzle hunt, part social adventure, and part happy hour, culminating in a final challenge and eternal bragging rights.
Restore your team with thoughtfully facilitated corporate wellness experiences from Escape the Box. Designed for conferences, retreats, leadership offsites, and employee appreciation events, these sessions are led by carefully vetted, credentialed, and corporate-ready wellness practitioners known for creating accessible, welcoming, and restorative group experiences.
Choose from restorative sound baths, nervous system reset sessions, breathwork for focus and performance, burnout recovery workshops, resilient leadership training, and interactive team resilience experiences. Each session is designed to help participants slow down, regulate stress, strengthen connection, and return to work feeling more grounded, energized, and supported.
Whether your goal is to help teams recharge, support employee wellbeing, improve communication, or create memorable conference programming, our wellness experiences offer a refreshing alternative to traditional seminars. These sessions blend practical skill-building, reflection, gentle participation, and genuine human connection in an inclusive environment where both wellness regulars and first-timers can feel comfortable.
In this mostly indoor, history-rich version of Escape the Box, teams explore one of Austin’s most iconic landmarks while solving escape-game-style clues inspired by Texas history, architecture, public art, and hidden Capitol details. Part puzzle hunt, part interactive tour, and part collaborative mystery, this experience is ideal for groups that want something clever, cultural, active, and climate controlled without spending hours in the heat.
Armed with vintage maps, cipher wheels, telegrams, archival-style documents, and mysterious artifacts, teams move through the Capitol Building and surrounding historic grounds while solving clues, completing creative challenges, and taking prompted group photos.
With elevators, restrooms, water fountains, flat terrain, and plenty of air-conditioned moments, the Capitol offers comfort and accessibility while still delivering the bonding, competition, and theatrical energy of Escape the Box.
In this fully indoor version of Escape the Box, your hotel, conference center, or event venue becomes a hands-on Department of Time Travel. Designed for conferences, retreats, offsites, hotel groups, and corporate gatherings, this climate-controlled experience brings the bonding, competition, and theatrical energy of Escape the Box directly to your event space.
Teams rotate through beautifully designed puzzle stations filled with escape-game-style clues, mysterious artifacts, facilitated challenges, creative brainstorms, and in-story surprises. Using vintage maps, cipher wheels, telegrams, archival-style documents, mixtapes, newspapers, and curious objects from across the timeline, teams crack codes, unlock clues, solve layered puzzles, and complete creative photo challenges.
Each station reveals another piece of the story, encouraging communication, strategy, and unexpected thinking before teams race into a final collaborative challenge to become unstuck in time and get back to the present.
Cultivates a positive work culture
Supercharges team building
Delightful, riveting immersive play
Ignites your competitive spirit
Encourages healthy workplace behaviors
Unforgettable experiences
Fosters collaboration and communication
Fun, achievable puzzles
Activities are inclusive and use a variety of skills
Builds relationships, creates lasting memories
Loads of high-energy photos
20+ years executing large-scale corporate events
Perfect for large groups
Seamless coordination from start to finish
Clear communication, dedicated event lead
Customize your ideal experience
Logistics management
Professional hosting + facilitation
Expert experience design
Intriguing challenges
Engaging prize ceremony
Favorite of Fortune 500s
Over 1000 corporate teams served
100% Google 5 star rating
Winner, Irish America Business 100 award
Member of IRL Creator’s Society
Designed by Immersive Experience experts
Built to scale 10-600 smoothly
Your Group WIll See:
Improved communication and collaboration
Boosted critical thinking and creativity
Stronger team morale and mutual trust
High return on investment
Your group is an independent film production crew and you have been hired by a huge Hollywood firm to make a movie. Your host, Mark O. Scorsese enters to instruct you and cheer you on.
Cast the stars and assign you crew then: Action! You compete against other production teams to shoot the most epic movie imaginable. Acting, cinematography, directing, and additions of your own creative flair will all add up to an award-winning experience.
Next up: The Red Carpet Awards and Screening! We’ll interview you in your ball gown, tuxedo, or even that really cool blue hoodie you always wear to work! Then we watch all the nominees and witness comedic gold. Our panel of experts will vote on the top movies and declare a winner!
Invited as guests of an enigmatic explorer, your group is attending an exclusive soiree at the mysterious Ravenhurst Manor. But while everyone is enjoying a pleasant evening of dinner, drinks and witty banter, a sinister MURDER is taking place.
As rumors begin spreading, an intricate plot unravels the dark past that haunts Ravenhurst. You race to uncover hidden clues and unmask the killer before it is too late.
One part murder mystery, one part escape room and one part masquerade ball, this participatory game will have your team entangled in a web of hidden motives, buried secrets, and dubious alliances.
Can your group of sleuths put the clues together to find out whodunit or will it remain a mystery… FOREVER?
