Escape rooms usually recycle the same haunted backdrops: derelict hospitals, abandoned asylums, creepy schools. A new collaboration in Singapore has thrown all that out and built its horror story inside a radio station instead.

Mediacorp 987's Signal Hijacked: The Purge Protocol is a joint project between radio station Mediacorp 987 and escape room operator Xcape SG, and it's billed as the first radio-themed escape room in the country. The premise: you and your friends are fresh interns arriving for day one at the 987 studio. A friendly DJ shows you around and everything feels normal — until night falls and a citywide Purge kicks off. You're told to shelter inside the station, but it quickly becomes clear the building is anything but safe.

From there it's a 75-minute scramble. Teams solve puzzles, make snap decisions and try to survive the night, all while live actors stalk the experience to crank up the tension. It's rated 5 stars for scares and 4 stars for difficulty, so this leans properly into the thriller genre rather than being a light, family-friendly puzzler. You'll want a team that can stay calm under pressure.

A neat twist is the involvement of seven actual Mediacorp 987 personalities — Ann Nicole, Avery Aloysius, Germaine Tan, Louisa Kan, Sonia Chew, Natasha Faisal and Joakim Gomez — who appear throughout the game via recorded audio and visual elements. Locals will recognise the voices; visitors get an oddly authentic slice of Singapore radio culture, just weaponised for jump scares.

The practical bits: sessions take 3 to 8 players and run daily from 12pm to midnight, with the experience available until 1 November 2026 — so there's a long window, though Halloween season will be the obvious peak. Standard tickets are $39.90 per person, rising to $45.90 during peak hours, which means from 6pm on weekdays and all day on weekends. Students get $6 off for post-6pm sessions (excluding public holidays and their eves), but you'll need to show a physical student card at the counter. Under-13s must be accompanied by a paying adult, and everyone should arrive 15 minutes before their slot.

For travellers, this is a fun alternative to Singapore's usual evening lineup of rooftop bars and hawker crawls. It's indoors (handy given the city's sudden downpours), it fits neatly into a night out, and at under S$50 a head it won't wreck the budget. Horror fans visiting around Halloween should book ahead — interactive scare experiences in Singapore tend to sell out fast in October.