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Get ready for the most exciting experience around with our large-group escape rooms! On the menu: puzzles, traps, great escapes and mysteries to crack. An escape room is a life-size game in which you’re locked in a closed space and have to solve a series of puzzles to get out — or to complete your mission. It’s a brilliant experience that helps team-mates build skills while tackling themes that matter to your company. Our large-group format brings all of that to teams of 10, 20, 100, 1,000 — even 10,000 players!
A standard escape room usually takes 3 to 6 players at a time. Far too few for a company! So how do you get 10, 20, 50, 100 or even 1,000 people playing at once? Giant escape rooms let you run a game for up to 1,000 people simultaneously, at the venue of your choice. These physical escape rooms slot neatly into your events — and make them far more exciting!
Want a large-group escape room built around your own storyline, objectives or venue? Our team designs bespoke team building experiences from scratch. A chance to bring your people together in fresh, surprising ways, through puzzles that are as unusual as they are gripping.
Formats should fit needs, not the other way round. So our game designers set to work on one question: how do you get your whole team playing a giant escape room? Our Criminal Quests are escape investigations: they combine solving a mystery with cracking puzzles that move the story forward. The beauty of the format is that players roam across a large space, with a different route for each team. The real challenge with a large-group escape room is running everyone at once while keeping the flow smooth enough to protect the sense of immersion. Proper team work, with plenty of intrigue and mystery! Our team has crafted a life-size escape adventure for your employees: puzzles to outwit, mysteries to unravel, and the clock ticking.
Our scenarios draw on modern films and series. Forget Colonel Mustard in the kitchen with the candlestick and the well-worn Cluedo clichés. You're not dusty old detectives any more — you're the driving force of the investigation squad. Your team will wear the NCIS or CSI badge for a guaranteed dive into those legendary series. Sharp thinking and team spirit will both be put to the test.
Because your people love a challenge, the puzzles in our large-group escape rooms are designed to make them work for it. More importantly, they call on different abilities, so every team member gets a moment to lead: deduction, dexterity, observation… there's something for everyone.
Big group, big flows to manage. Our first ambition is to keep every single player engaged from start to finish. The experience has to stay immersive throughout — no queuing at certain stages! That's why smooth game routes are our top priority, so everyone stays inside the world of the game from the first minute to the last. Our project managers design alternative itineraries, happenings, parades… so the number of participants is never a constraint, but a strength.
In an escape room, the goal is to get out — or complete the mission — as fast as possible. In a multi-team challenge, we think it's far more fun to keep the suspense going to the very end. So we use a points system that measures each team's reasoning. Speed is only part of the score! Which means the winning team stays a mystery right up to the prize-giving…
A large-group escape room ends with a game debrief in front of all the participants. It's a chance to run back through the facts, clues and puzzles. Then we announce and congratulate the three winning teams, cheered on by everyone in the room. A genuinely unifying high point. By the end of the adventure, your teams will be closer than ever — and their sense of belonging to your organisation will have shot up.
Planning a large-group escape room? Arcane will help you build the activity that fits your needs best.
Our coaches listen, then propose the format, storyline and budget that suit you. Together we map out the context of your event, your objectives, the profile of your participants… Then we send you the options that match your brief.
We handle transport, set-up and take-down at your venue. Our hosts are all professional facilitators or actors, able to play a character that pulls participants into the story while making sure the rules are respected. In most cases we also bring in an expert on the theme, so the awareness-raising subject can be explored in greater depth after the game.
Once the quote is signed, our project managers take care of everything. We coordinate with management, your teams and the venue, then handle all the upstream organisation with suppliers and speakers so everything is ready on the day. We also send you photos taken at the event, so you can keep the experience alive with your employees long after it’s over.
Because Arcane always wants to know you’re happy, we send a satisfaction survey after every event so you can share your feedback: support from our team, delivery on the day, player satisfaction… To date, our clients have rated us 4.6/5! We’re always listening, and always improving our company offsites.
Arcane Experience offers a wide range of large-group escape rooms, indoors and outdoors, to bring your employees together around the issues that matter to you. Our activities travel! We operate across France and abroad, and coordinate directly with your venue.
We always provide a satisfaction survey so you can gather feedback from your teams. Depending on your needs, we can also set up more specific measures, such as knowledge retention before and after the event, or shifts in employee engagement.
Many companies have already drawn on Arcane’s expertise in designing games for events. From team cohesion to training and CSR awareness-raising, the challenges are always different. So are the themes, because Arcane games have covered:
See how Moët Hennessy brought its RDI research programmes to life for 120 employees with a flash-format serious game on innovation.
See how UFC-Que Choisir celebrated its 70th anniversary with a bespoke game for 150 employees. Designed and hosted by Arcane.
See how Moroccanoil and Matahari launched a new product with a VIP treasure hunt for 10 influencers at the Musée d'Orsay.
