No Escape Room: Trapped in a Game That Never Lets You Leave

The story begins with a man who goes on a weekend trip with his daughter to spend some time together. He wants to make her happy. However, his daughter Karen is upset with her dad about something and remains silent throughout the journey, staring out of the window. Her dad tries to lighten the mood. He talks to her, cracks jokes, and makes efforts so her mood improves and the short trip becomes memorable.
While they are on the way, their car suddenly breaks down. Due to this, they are forced to stop in a nearby small town. They leave the car at an old garage to get it repaired and, while waiting, they sit in a hotel across the road and order food.
Karen’s dad suggests that since the car will take time to be fixed, they should look for some place nearby where they can have a little fun. He picks up a large newspaper lying there and starts looking at tourist activities. He suggests several options to Karen one by one, but she refuses every idea.
Then his dad notices an advertisement for an escape room. He explains to her that it is a game where a group of people is locked inside a room. Inside, they are given puzzles, riddles, and tasks, and until they solve everything correctly, they are not allowed to leave the room.
Hearing this, a slight spark appears in Karen’s eyes. She says that her friends have played such a game before and really enjoyed it, so she also wants to try it. Her dad immediately calls the waitress and asks her about the escape room.
The waitress suddenly becomes serious and says that they should not go there, because whoever has gone there has never come back. Hearing this, both of them look at each other nervously. The atmosphere suddenly becomes heavy. Then, the very next moment, the waitress laughs and says she was just joking. She says it is very fun and people really enjoy it.
Hearing this, they relax a little and decide to go to the escape room. Meanwhile, Karen goes to the washroom because something has spilled on her clothes. As soon as she enters, the lights start flickering. The entire washroom falls into an eerie silence.
Suddenly, she hears strange noises coming from the adjacent cabin, as if someone inside is trying to open the door. Karen’s heart starts pounding. Out of fear, she slowly walks toward that cabin and is about to open the door when the waitress suddenly comes out from the same cabin.
At that moment, Karen’s dad calls out to her, and she quickly leaves the place. However, the strange fear that settles in her heart does not fade away easily.
After that, they rent a car and head toward the location of the escape room. As they move forward, the liveliness around them slowly disappears. Eventually, they reach a place where there is complete silence all around. Just looking at the building gives off a strange feeling. The walls have old cracks, the paint is peeling off, and it feels as if the building has seen many dark things.
They enter inside. Karen’s dad calls out loudly, “Is anyone here?” After a few seconds of silence, a girl appears and, with a faint smile, says, “Welcome, I am the host of this game.”
She takes them into a room where three other people are already sitting, who have also come to participate in the game. A woman introduces herself and says, “My name is Melanie, and I came here with my husband. He didn’t want to come, but I insisted and brought him along.”
There is also another man who introduces himself as a doctor. After a while, the host brings a strange kind of tea for everyone. Steam rises strongly from the tea, and its smell feels unusual.
Karen’s dad feels something is not right about it, so he hesitates and stops Karen from drinking it as well. But when he sees that everyone else is drinking it calmly, he eventually drinks it too.
After that, the host places some agreement papers in front of them and asks them to sign. It is written that all of them have come here willingly, and if anything happens to anyone, they themselves will be responsible.
Once the papers are signed, the host takes everyone’s mobile phones and explains that it is a rule of the game. No one will contact the outside world, and no videos are allowed to be recorded.
Then she turns on a projector and plays a video. The video explains the story of an inventor who used to conduct strange experiments and create unusual things. He was the one who built this mysterious house. But after that, strange incidents started happening there. Some people came to uncover the secret of the house, but they all got trapped inside and disappeared without leaving any trace.
After this, the host explains the rules of the game. Each room’s door will open only when the key for that room is found. Every key is hidden inside the same room, and to find it, puzzles and riddles must be solved. The total time for the game is one hour. If anyone feels they cannot handle the mental pressure and everything becomes too overwhelming, they only need to say the word “Wake up,” and they will be taken out immediately.
As soon as she finishes saying this, the lights suddenly go out…
(The story continues in the same word-by-word sequence with fear, suspense, time loops, death, and consequences, and in the end it becomes clear that this is the “No Escape Room” — a trap from which no one truly escapes. It was a deadly experiment created by a mad inventor, and even the souls of those who die there remain trapped inside the house forever.)

Within moments, Melanie switches on a small flashlight lying nearby, but by then the host has disappeared. The very next moment, all the doors in the room shut automatically. Panic becomes clearly visible on everyone’s faces. They immediately stand up and start looking around. They carefully examine every corner, every shelf, and every old object, hoping to find some clue that might lead them to the key.
The room is filled with strange, antique, and valuable items. Melanie’s husband anxiously says,
“I don’t know what kind of trouble we’ve gotten ourselves into. Who knows when we’ll get out of here?”
Melanie tries to calm him down and says,
“It’s only for one hour. Don’t overthink it. Hurry up and use your brain, only then will we be able to get out.”
While searching the room, Karen finds an old tape. The doctor plays it, and a strange song starts playing, in which the names of different animals are mentioned. Listening carefully to the song, they all begin searching the room. Soon, they find several animal masks.
According to the order mentioned in the song, Karen places the masks at different spots. As soon as the last mask is placed correctly, a small hidden window in the wall opens automatically. Inside it is a safe with a numbered lock. Now the next task is to find the numbers that will open the safe.
Meanwhile, Melanie’s husband picks up the snake mask and puts it on his face. Within seconds, he feels a strange movement in his hand. He sees something like small snakes moving under his skin. Nearby, he notices the shadow of a woman standing there. Seeing this, he panics. He quickly removes the mask and says in a trembling voice,
“There was something mixed in that tea. What I’m seeing isn’t normal.”
The doctor tries to reassure him and explains that everything here is designed to affect the mind. He switches on a nearby lamp. As soon as the light turns on, some numbers written on the mask begin to glow. Now everyone understands. They enter those numbers into the lock, and the safe opens immediately. Inside, they find a key.
As soon as they open the door with the key, they enter the next room. The door behind them closes automatically. A timer on the wall shows that they now have only fifty minutes left.
This room is even stranger than the previous one. Clocks are placed everywhere, and unfamiliar machines are installed, whose sounds make the atmosphere even more terrifying. Melanie picks up a large old telephone, and as soon as she starts speaking, she hears her own voice coming from the receiver. She tells everyone that the phone is repeating exactly what she is saying.
Then the same voice on the other end asks to speak to her husband. At first, her husband refuses, but after everyone insists, he picks up the receiver. A voice from the other side says,
“Run away from here. Get out quickly, or you will be killed.”
Hearing this, he panics. As he is about to hang up the phone, he sees small insects crawling on the receiver. Suddenly, blood starts coming out of his ear. Terrified, his condition worsens. He screams that he cannot stay here anymore and that all of this is beyond what he can handle.
He runs to the door and starts shouting “Wake up” again and again. Within seconds, the door opens, and he is taken outside. The door closes automatically once again.
After he leaves, the doctor says that this place doesn’t feel right to him either and that he should also leave. However, Melanie stops him and says that it is just a game and that once it ends, everyone will get out.
Meanwhile, Karen’s dad notices an old typewriter and tells everyone about it. At the same time, Karen notices a clock that has stopped, frozen at 10:12. She sets the radio to the frequency corresponding to that time. From the radio, they hear the English voice of an old man.
Whatever the voice says, Karen’s dad starts typing it on the typewriter. After some time, a line appears that translates to 11:55. Karen then sets that exact time on the stopped clock—five minutes before twelve.
As soon as the correct time is set, a key falls from somewhere. They try opening different doors with it. One door does not open, but the lock of a cabinet that looks like a storage room opens.
As soon as the door opens, a strong and rotten smell spreads out. Clothes are hanging inside, but the environment is so foul that it becomes difficult to stand there. Karen steps forward and looks inside the cabinet. Suddenly, someone grabs her hand. She panics, but it is the game host standing in front of her.
Her condition is terrible. A knife is stuck in her stomach, and blood is flowing. In a trembling voice, she tells them that the inventor has returned. She says he is insane and can do anything to anyone. She urges Karen to quickly find the final master key and escape, otherwise something very bad will happen to all of them.
As soon as she finishes saying this, the cabinet door shuts automatically.
Seeing all this, the others panic, but Melanie thinks it is just acting and says that this is also part of the game. Hearing this, Karen’s dad becomes angry and says that it was not acting and that everything looked completely real. He starts banging on the doors loudly, but no door opens.
Now everyone realizes that they are truly trapped…
(The story continues in the same manner: Karen escaping alone, the time loop, Melanie being trapped forever, the doctor’s death, and finally the father and daughter realizing that although they have escaped the house, they may never truly escape this town or this game.)

Seeing all this, the others panic badly, but Melanie takes it lightly. She says that it’s all acting and part of the game. Praising them, she adds, “What an amazing performance!”
Hearing this, Karen’s dad explodes in anger. He shouts that this was not acting; everything looked completely real, and now he wants to end this game right there. He bangs loudly on the door and shouts to be let out. Melanie tries to stop them, but it’s of no use. No door opens.
Now everyone realizes that they are truly trapped. The inventor is actually present in the house; he had attacked the host earlier and is now possibly after all of them.
After a while, they realize that there is no key to exit this room. The only way out is a small window-like opening above the door. To get through it, someone needs to be very thin and agile. This task can only be done by Karen.
Karen steps forward and says she will go. Her dad initially forbids it, but he has to agree to her insistence. With the help of the doctor and her dad, Karen climbs up and somehow manages to get through the small opening to the other side.
Once there, she tries opening all the doors, but they are all locked. Then she sees the shadow of a girl, who signals for her to follow. Without overthinking, Karen starts following her.
Back where her dad, Melanie, and the doctor are, her dad keeps calling out, but when there is no reply, they panic. Eventually, they try to break the door with a heavy wooden object, but the doors are so strong that they don’t even budge.
Meanwhile, the mysterious girl leads Karen into a dark room. As soon as Karen steps inside, the door closes automatically. At the same time, the door of the room where her dad, Melanie, and the doctor are opens.
Now they realize that the entire house is interconnected. When one door closes, another opens somewhere else. The girl continuously signals Karen to follow her. Scared but forced, Karen keeps following.
She is led to an extremely strange place that looks like an old laboratory. Around her are bizarre machines and broken equipment related to experiments. In the darkness, a voice echoes,
“Find the master.”
Karen looks around nervously. Then she notices a corpse covered with cloth, apparently kept for some experiment. As soon as she removes the cloth, the sight shocks her; the body is in such a horrid state that it gives her goosebumps.
Meanwhile, her dad, Melanie, and the doctor are wandering through another part of the house, which feels like a maze. Doors open and close automatically, and they can’t figure out which way is correct.
As Karen moves forward, the corpse suddenly disappears. In the next room, she finds a structure, and strange, terrifying growls are heard as if something is roaring.
Terrified, she runs to the next room and closes the door behind her. Outside, someone starts banging loudly on the door. Shaking in fear, Karen hides in a small space in the wall where corpses were usually stored.
Within moments, the horrifying man enters the room.
Back where her dad, Melanie, and the doctor are, one door suddenly opens, and they go inside. As soon as they enter, the door slams shut. The room has a projector and a wall timer. The timer shows that only thirty-five minutes are left.
The game is still ongoing.
Karen’s dad angrily turns off the projector and says they will not play any game. His daughter is missing, and they have to find her.
Karen faces two simultaneous dangers. One is the corpse near her hiding spot, and the other is the terrifying man in the same room. The situation becomes even more frightening.
The corpse suddenly begins to move as if it has come to life. Terrified, Karen begins to feel faint and dizzy.
Meanwhile, the doctor finds a numbered box, which clearly means they need to find the numbers hidden in the room to open it.
Karen’s dad searches the room and moves to another nearby room. At the same time, a shadow passes silently behind them, but no one notices it.
Karen sees that the corpse truly seems alive. Its hand slowly reaches toward her. Fear stops her breathing. In a faint voice, she keeps whispering, “Help… help…” as if calling for someone.
The doctor keeps thinking about where the code for the numbered box might be. Suddenly, he remembers that when they first entered this room, there were numbers written on the ceiling fan. He suspects that these numbers may belong to the box.
They want to shine the projector light on the fan to make the numbers clear, but the projector cannot be moved. Then they notice a glass nearby. The doctor gets an idea.
He projects the light onto the glass, reflecting it onto the fan. As soon as the light falls, the numbers become clearly visible. They immediately enter those numbers into the box, which opens.
Inside, they find a new key for the next room. Using this key, the door opens, and Karen’s dad and the doctor exit. Melanie stays behind.
She sees something very strange in the projector. A video of herself plays on the screen. She notices that she keeps returning to the same room repeatedly, as if some unseen force is sending her back.
At first, she dismisses it as a glitch, but in reality, she is trapped in a time loop. Whenever she tries to leave, she returns to the same room. For her, time is frozen there.
Outside, Karen’s dad becomes angry at the doctor. He says he suspects the doctor is involved, but the doctor angrily replies that he is not insane and did not do this.
Meanwhile, trapped in the time loop, Melanie sees her husband’s corpse. She realizes he was not taken out but killed. This completely shatters her.
At the same time, the corpse’s hand reaches very close to Karen. Just then, the doctor enters the room, opens the door, and pulls Karen out. Terrified, she begins to cry as she steps outside. The door behind her closes automatically.
Karen asks the doctor where her dad is. He says he doesn’t know. Karen explains that the game host had said the inventor returned and wants to kill everyone.
She immediately suspects the doctor, thinking he might be the inventor because no one else knew she was in that room. Still, the doctor saves her alone; he did not bring her dad with him.
The doctor explains that he came because he heard her scream and reassures her that it’s all just a game. Soon it will end, and they will be taken out.
Meanwhile, trapped in the time loop, Melanie again hears the phone ring. She picks it up and hears her own voice. Without thinking, she says,
“Let me speak to my husband.”
When her husband speaks on the other side, she warns him again to escape or face a terrible fate.
Everything repeats because Melanie is trapped in the time loop. She witnesses three different timelines of herself—her past, her present, and her future.
That is why the same events and dialogues repeat multiple times. The Melanie on the phone is actually her future self, warning her husband. But now that future has become her present, and she is forever trapped in the time loop.
In the dark room, she senses another presence. Strange sounds from the walls make her more restless. Terrified, she climbs a wooden ladder to escape.
Suddenly, a part of the ladder breaks. Melanie slips and falls. A sharp tool on the table below impales her head. She dies instantly and painfully.
Meanwhile, Karen and the doctor search for a way out. Karen finds papers on the table. One reads,
“The object is inside the stomach.”
This means the item they were looking for is hidden inside someone’s body. After some searching, the doctor finds a small tunnel with a lock. They need its key.
The doctor notices a drawer in the room. Suspecting the key might be inside, he reaches in. But suddenly his hand touches a severed hand. Terrified, he quickly withdraws.
Karen steps forward. Bravely, she reaches in, pulls out the severed hand, and realizes it’s fake. She reaches in again and finds the key.
She immediately unlocks the tunnel and both enter, hoping it leads outside.
Karen leads, with the doctor following. Suddenly, someone attacks the doctor from behind, dragging him into darkness. Seconds later, his screams echo—he is being brutally killed.
Everything that had happened before now makes sense: the Karen inside the house is the past of the Karen outside, and for the outside Karen, it was her future she had already seen.
As before, the outside Karen hears her dad’s voice and leaves. Then both father and daughter emerge.
Outside, everything appears exactly as it did before, as if nothing had happened. Exiting the hotel, Karen happily says,
“Dad, our car is fixed!”
They quickly reach the car and get in. Karen’s dad searches for the keys, but then notices the car doors. Not one, but several strange locks are attached.
These are not ordinary locks; they are unique and terrifying. At that moment, they realize that they are still not out of the game.
They have escaped the house, but leaving the town may require solving many more puzzles. They may never truly leave. They might remain trapped in this loop forever, just like those who came before them.
This is why the story is called “No Escape Room.”
Once someone enters this game, they can never completely get out. The five people who came before met the same fate.
It was a horrific experiment created by a mad inventor. He did not just make a game, but a trap. The souls of those who die here remain trapped in the house.
The inventor’s own spirit also wanders here, hunting new victims. The souls of those who die in the escape room are added to his terrifying army, forming a large spectral force.
And with this suspense, horror, and mysterious ending, the story concludes.

“If escaping means repeating the same nightmare forever, would you still try to leave… or accept the loop?”