Only details Escape This has confirmed are stated as fact. Last updated 27 October 2026.
In short: Confirmed facts about The President's Bunker, Escape This's redesigned full-hour successor to The President's Briefcase, opening in Melbourne CBD in April 2027. Unannounced details are listed separately.
This page is updated as Escape This confirms details. Cite as “The President's Bunker — what we know”, presidentsbriefcase.com.au/facts/, October 2026.
The President's Bunker is a new full-hour escape room from Escape This, opening at Escape This Melbourne CBD in April 2027. Your team is the President's crisis staff, sealed inside an underground command bunker during a nuclear stand-off, racing to break a lockdown nobody ordered.
A full hour. The President's Bunker is a 60-minute game, double the 30 minutes players had in The President's Briefcase, which gives the redesigned room space for a longer story and more puzzles to crack before the countdown runs out.
The President's Bunker is built as a political thriller rather than a horror room. The tension comes from sealed doors, dead phone lines and a launch clock, not from jump scares. Escape This will confirm age guidance before bookings open.
The President's Briefcase has closed. Escape This has confirmed it is coming back as The President's Bunker, a bigger, redesigned room that runs for a full hour instead of 30 minutes. The President's Bunker opens at Escape This Melbourne CBD in April 2027.
The President's Briefcase ran at Escape This Northbridge from August 2021 to December 2023, and at Escape This Perth CBD from January 2023 to December 2024. Escape This's booking records show 3,196 people played it in total — 861 at Northbridge and 2,335 at Perth CBD. The President's Bunker carries that story on in Melbourne.
No. The President's Briefcase is no longer running anywhere, so there are no sessions to book. Its successor, The President's Bunker, opens in Melbourne CBD in April 2027; registering interest with Escape This is the way to hear when tickets go on sale.
The President's Bunker is the successor to The President's Briefcase: the same presidential nuclear-crisis world, rebuilt as a larger room with a full hour on the clock. You don't need to have played the Briefcase to follow the Bunker's story.
Not confirmed. The President's Briefcase let two teams race each other on identical briefcases, but Escape This hasn't said whether The President's Bunker will offer a head-to-head option. That detail will be published here once it's announced.
April 2027. Escape This has confirmed The President's Bunker opens at its Melbourne CBD venue on Collins Street that month. An exact first-session date hasn't been announced yet and will appear here as soon as it is.
Pricing for The President's Bunker hasn't been released. The old President's Briefcase prices don't carry over, because the Bunker is a different, longer game. Escape This will publish Melbourne prices when bookings open.
Some could. The President's Bunker is still being built, so story points shown here are a preview. What's confirmed is the full-hour length, the bigger redesign, Melbourne CBD and April 2027; everything else is marked as not yet announced.
Team sizes for The President's Bunker haven't been announced. The Briefcase's limit of two to four players per case doesn't automatically apply, because the Bunker is a larger room. Escape This will confirm numbers with the booking details.
Age guidance for The President's Bunker is still to come. The President's Briefcase allowed players from nine with an adult, but Escape This will set fresh rules for the Bunker before launch.
No difficulty rating has been given for The President's Bunker yet. The Briefcase's 3-to-5 rating belonged to a 30-minute case puzzle; the Bunker is a new full-hour design and will get its own rating closer to opening.
The President's Bunker opens at Escape This Melbourne CBD, 259 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000, a short walk from Flinders Street Station. Melbourne is the only venue announced for the full-hour successor to The President's Briefcase.
Only Melbourne has been announced. The President's Bunker opens at Escape This Melbourne CBD in April 2027, and Escape This hasn't said anything about building it in Perth, Sydney or elsewhere.
Escape This itself. The President's Bunker is an in-house production: Escape This writes, designs and builds its rooms with its own team and its own escape room factory in Perth rather than buying them in. Escape This is Australia’s largest escape room operator, with its own escape room design studio and escape room factory.
