The Best VR Experience in the Bay Area: 5 Reasons You Must Try a VR Escape Room

While traditional escape rooms can be very fun, Diablo Escapes offers a truly different adventure. Here you will experience full-length escape rooms in high-quality VR (virtual reality) with wildly creative puzzles. Combining the challenges you enjoy in a traditional escape room with the immersiveness of VR, the best elements of both make for a thrilling VR experience.

If you’re looking for a unique experience, organizing a team builder or planning a birthday, or just curious about VR, let us give you 5 reasons why this is hands-down the best group adventure VR game you can try!

#1. Fun for Everyone

Do you know someone who wants an amazing VR experience but does not want to play a VR zombie shooter game? Because of their wide appeal, VR escape rooms are a great kind of adventure to share with friends or family. With well-designed escape rooms, no one is left out. So, since VR escape rooms are designed for teamwork, everyone can contribute, whether you’re a puzzle pro, first-timer, or seasoned gamer!

VR escape rooms are perfect for anyone interested in fun hands-on activities. You can see, hear, and collaborate with everyone in your group to explore and to solve puzzles. You will have freedom to roam around immersive worlds that you will not believe until you see them. The interactivity with the environment and each other is what makes escape rooms the best way to enjoy and experience VR together.

At Diablo Escapes, the game worlds range from fantasy and sci-fi to ocean dives, making it easy for anyone to find their perfect mission. Whether you come in with your friends, family, or your work buddies, these adventures make a fantastic group activity for everyone!

#2. Highly Interactive

In an escape room, you can become part of the story in ways that no shooter game can rival! Each object you pick up and every action you take in VR makes the game feel more immersive. Under attack by a dragon, you and your friends will have to dodge the fireballs and figure out how to launch arrows in a ballista. You might need to try a few different approaches to get it right!

Virtual reality allows for creative large-scale puzzles which are not limited by the scale of a physical room. In our escape rooms, you might use your hands to shoot a bow and arrow or to throw clues to teammates. Sometimes, the goal might be to figure out the controls of your space shuttle and to dock with a space station.

A side note: if you or anyone in your group worries about motion sickness during VR, read this article for an explanation of why motion sickness rarely happens in our escape room games.

#3. No Experience Needed - Easy and Intuitive

If you think you have to be an expert in video games to do a virtual reality escape room, we are here to reassure you that you do not. Even if you are completely unfamiliar with using VR controllers, you will be comfortable playing our games. No teleporting or flying around, so you are just walking around naturally.

Our dedicated gamemasters will guide you through the experience. The VR escape rooms at Diablo Escapes always start with a quick personal tutorial on how to operate the controllers and how to navigate safely around the arena.

You do not need to be an expert to go into any escape room, but especially not for a virtual reality escape room. What makes VR escape rooms super beginner friendly is that they are designed to be an accessible experience for everyone, regardless of your level of experience with escape rooms or virtual reality. It’s as easy as putting the goggles up to your eyes and using a single trigger on the controllers to pick up items and explore around the room.

For some winning tips to make your first session a success, check out this article!

#4. Visually Stunning and Immersive

You will feel a sense of wonder when you are fully immersed in a VR world. In the depths of the ocean, you can watch sharks approach and shock them in defense when they swim towards you, or on an alien spaceship, you can control the gravity settings and see what happens.

With the incredible immersion of VR, you won’t be just “locked in” a room. Your escape room experience can be outdoors in the forest or in outer space or underwater.

If you worry about the idea of being “locked inside” somewhere, it is actually a myth that you are locked in an escape room and that the players cannot leave. You can read all about that and other debunked escape room myths here.

#5 Perfect for Groups

A great escape room does more than entertain—it brings people together. Team-based VR games are great for building morale in a corporate team and even a family. With no experience required, everyone has fun and Diablo Escapes’ friendly staff and our expert gamemasters will make sure your visit goes smoothly.

Your group will communicate, brainstorm, laugh, and cheer as you tackle mind-bending challenges. A VR escape room is a perfect opportunity for connecting over a shared adventure. It’s the ideal way to practice teamwork, break the ice on a night out, or strengthen your communication skills.

Ready for Adventure?

An extraordinary adventure waits for you in our VR escape rooms! Check out our 5-star reviews on Yelp and Google, where people rave about our unique themes, friendly staff, and fun adventures.

When you explore freely together in a virtual arena, view expansive landscapes in VR worlds, and solve puzzles that you can only imagine in your dreams, you’ll understand why it’s the best and most interactive group VR activity in the Bay Area!