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LicensingBring Secret Mission to your city.
Live crime missions with professional actors, played at real locations across a city. We license the format – and everything that runs it – to operators who want to bring it home.
From the team that runs Secret Mission in Vienna
A mission, not a room.
Secret Mission turns a city centre into the set of a crime story. Guests investigate as a team of agents, crack puzzles that move the plot and meet professional actors who react live to every question and decision.
A story you play
Puzzles, codes and locks like in an escape room – but every one moves the story forward, and the group’s decisions change how it ends.
Professional actors
Allies, informants and suspects stay in character and respond to the group in real time. Nobody has to act – the cast adapts to the players.
Real locations
A historic church, old-town alleys, an underground wine cellar: places that are normally closed, rented for the length of a mission. The city is the set.
Not a classic escape room, not a murder-mystery dinner, not a city tour. A category of its own: Crime Escape Theatre.
Photos: Secret Mission productions in Vienna
Why the format works for an operator.
Secret Mission runs every weekend in Vienna’s old town. What makes it work there travels with the licence.
The city is the set
Instead of building rooms, a mission uses real places, rented for the time you play. What you invest in is story, cast and craft.
One production, many occasions
Open sessions, private groups, birthdays, hen and stag parties, proposals, team building and gift vouchers – all run on the same mission in Vienna today.
Sold where guests already look
In Vienna, missions are booked online with instant confirmation and through GetYourGuide, Airbnb and Viator.
For locals and visitors
Every mission is played in German or English, so one production serves the people who live in your city and the people who visit it.
Everything that runs a mission in Vienna.
A licence gives you the format the way we run it ourselves – not a manual, but the working parts.
The operating system
The platform we built to run Secret Mission – one place for everything from the first booking to the last scene.
- Bookings and checkout
- Game-day planning
- Game master console
- Players’ phones with live map
- Rankings
- Digital consent forms
- Customer service
- Partner commissions
- Finance overview
Missions
Stories with scripts of more than a hundred pages, puzzles and props lists – adapted with you to places in your city.
Training
Game masters and actors learn how we run a mission: briefing, timing, safety and staying in character. With casting guidelines for your city.
Brand and material
The Secret Mission brand, photos, texts and campaign material from Vienna, ready to localise.
One point of contact
One person on our side, from the first location scout to the opening weekend – and after it.
New missions
Updates and new missions as we develop them. Which ones are part of your licence is agreed in writing.
Who we are looking for.
Escape room and entertainment operators
You already run bookings, staff and game masters. Secret Mission adds a format that plays outside your rooms – for the groups that have done every room in town.
Entrepreneurs
Start with a format that is already running and a system that already works, instead of building both from scratch.
Venues and destinations
Castles, historic houses, old towns, hotels and tourism boards: a story that turns your place into the set.
A team on site
Someone to lead the operation, game masters and actors. We help with casting and train everyone.
Access to locations
Places in your city for the scenes and a meeting point for briefings. We choose them with you.
Local sales
Marketing and partnerships in your city – with our material and our experience from Vienna.
Our standard
Missions are played the way guests know them from Vienna. We test them with you before the first guests arrive.
From a first call to opening night.
- 01
Introduction
A first conversation: your city, your background and what you would like to build.
- 02
Play it in Vienna
Play a mission yourself and see a game day from behind the scenes.
- 03
City check
Together we look at locations, languages and the guests your city attracts.
- 04
Licence
Territory, scope and terms – agreed in writing.
- 05
Set-up and training
The story moves to your locations, cast and game masters are trained, the system is set up for your bookings.
- 06
Opening
Test runs, then the first missions with guests – with us alongside.
Terms agreed for each city.
There is no price list: terms are agreed individually for each city. You receive our licence terms after a first conversation.
Territory
The area your licence covers – agreed per city.
Fees
Licence fee and ongoing fees – agreed per licence, in writing.
Scope
Which missions, which languages and which parts of the system.
Brand
How Secret Mission appears in your city, and how your company appears next to it.
Before you get in touch.
Do I need my own venue?
Not in the sense of rooms to build. You need a meeting point for briefings and suitable places for the scenes – we look for them with you during the city check.
Where do the actors come from?
From your city. We help you cast them and train the whole team in how a mission is played.
Can a mission be adapted to my city?
That is part of every set-up: the story stays, the scenes and routes move to places in your city.
Which languages are the missions played in?
Today in German and English. Other languages are agreed per licence.
What does a licence cost?
It depends on the city, the territory and the scope. We put the terms in writing after a first conversation.
Can I see it before I decide?
Yes – we recommend it. Play a mission in Vienna and see a game day from behind the scenes.
Bring Secret Mission to your city.
Tell us about yourself and your city. We reply personally by email.
Prefer email? office@secretmission.at
Thank you – your enquiry is with us.
We will read it personally and reply by email to arrange a first conversation.