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From races across the city against the clock and stunning video mapping inside Cathedrals to expeditions into the darkest depths of Peru, here are our recommendations for the best family-friendly immersive experiences in London this summer holiday...

Room 13, an original immersive horror experience from Tom Maller (director of Peaky Blinders: The Rise, Doctor Who: Time Fracture, The Paddington Bear Experience and Secret Cinema's Casino Royale, Blade Runner, and Romeo + Juliet), is set to launch at Battersea Arts Centre this October for a two-week limited run. Inspired by the 2015 fire at Battersea Arts Centre, the spine-chilling 35-minute-long production blurs the lines between local history and imagined unreality.

Following high demand, The Traitors: Live Experience has released a new wave of tickets for the autumn season, with bookings now available for games running from 8th September to 8th November 2026. Since launching last year and introducing brand-new missions this Spring, the immersive attraction has continued to delight fans, inviting players to step inside the world of the BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning television phenomenon.

exit strategy's How to Win a Gameshow, which comes to Edinburgh Fringe this August, is a participatory show that follows Graham, who has spent an indeterminate amount of time trapped as a contestant inside a bizarre game show. The show explores our own capacities for complicity under observation, our impulses as a group and as individuals, and our presumed anonymity in theatrical, social, and technological spaces.

Immersive comedy-horror Jill's Tupperware Party, which comes to Edinburgh Fringe this August, is the latest interactive production from Asparagus Mousse Productions - an artist-led theatre company co-founded by performers and makers Coral Bevan, David Alwyn and Ricky Hunt, who have worked extensively with the likes of Secret Cinema and The Lost Estate.

London is about to gain a second city: one where logic breaks down, a parallel world connects, and reality refuses to behave. Today, the creators behind the award-winning Wake The Tiger Amazement Park have pulled back the curtain on their monumental West London expansion, naming the experience Absurd City and officially launching ticket sales.

Face Off Unlimited, the creators of the roaringly successful international comedy game show BATSU! debut GANBA!! - their high-energy interactive ninja training show for families at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe at Underbelly Bristo Square Friesian from 5th to 16th August. The show reimagines BATSU!’s Japanese-inspired comedy experience for a new generation, inviting children and their grown-ups to become the heroes of their own ninja adventure.

Table for Two, which has been created by Magic Circle member Jack Kenyon and his long-time partner, Isabelle Dooley-Carmichael sees Kenyon attempts to right the wrongs of past relationships while trying to impress his latest date, who is chosen at random from the audience and remains on stage for the show's duration, with feats of magic.

Chromatic States uses colour, space, sound and shapes to explore how colour is more than what we see, it is something we feel. Created by global experience studio Pixel Artworks, who work on London's New Year’s Eve spectacle, the experience will be open every day during lunchtimes (12-1pm) throughout the summer holidays and welcomes all ages. Visitors can drop in for free, with no need to book.

Alistair Aitcheson's My Date with Pierce Brosnan, which comes to the Edinburgh Fringe this August, is an interactive comedy that blends drag, clowning and video game technology. In the show, French maid Mademoiselle Cafetière comes face to face with the man of their dreams: Hollywood actor Pierce Brosnan. By scanning a QR code on their phones, audience members help build Cafetière's dating profile, place orders at her café, and give the lifeless dummy of Pierce Brosnan a pers

BuzzAttack is an interactive game show experience inspired by the likes of The Price Is Right, Jeopardy! and The Weakest Link. Across 60 minutes, groups of up to 12 people compete against each other across ten rounds of multiple-choice questions and mini-games in a TV studio-inspired set, complete with a large spinning wheel, smoke machines, and dynamic lighting.

404 Theater's DeepFake, which comes to Edinburgh Fringe this August, is an immersive show designed to be experienced by only one audience member at a time. Ahead of its Edinburgh Fringe run, we caught up with the show's creators, Grace Goheen and Minh-Anh Day, to talk about the rapid rise of deepfake technology, why the show could only ever have been an immersive experience for one audience member at a time, and their highlights from previous years at the festival.