The VR Sphere
VR Games & Escape Room in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk

About Us

Each timeslot booked gives you an hour, where you can play VR escape rooms and arcade games. We provide amazing experiences with an incredible library of virtual reality adventures. Our venue is located in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Our friendly staff are ready to help you as you arrive for your journey into the virtual world.

Most of our games are for 1-4 players. Some games can have groups of up to 8. For larger groups, you can contact us for more information. Our games have age restrictions, but some can be played from as young age 8 and up. Our game pages have more information.

Get ready to take part in larger than life adventures, immerse yourself in virtual reality and prepare to explore worlds unseen, action unrivalled and fun in a new reality.

Ready to play?

Located in the heart of Bury St Edmunds, The VR Sphere is Suffolk’s ultimate destination for virtual reality games and escape room experiences. We have a vast and ever-growing library of VR escape rooms and games, with regular new titles and seasonal releases to keep the excitement fresh.

Our VR arcade offers something for everyone – play solo or in groups of up to 8–10 players, depending on the game. Choose from a wide range of genres, including cooperative and competitive adventures, from surviving zombie hordes and defending towers to sci-fi missions, sports challenges, RPGs, team battles and PVP shooters.

Our immersive VR escape rooms let you explore incredible worlds and stunning locations, including Ubisoft’s iconic Assassin’s Creed and Prince of Persia premium adventures.

With games suited to all skill levels and interests, you can even mix and match game types within your booking slot for maximum variety. Whether you’re searching for VR games nearby, a thrilling escape room in Bury St Edmunds, or a unique day out in Suffolk, The VR Sphere delivers unforgettable, larger-than-life virtual experiences.

VR Anywhere - Coming Soon

As well as booking at our location or a private booking, we also offer portable and remote VR services, so we can bring the adventure to you! Anything from corporate team building, parties, and events, we will also attend other functions such as fire displays and shows offering a taster of what we have to offer.

We will bring all the hardware and software, and our helpful staff will travel, set up and run the VR experiences and pack away. All you need to do is have fun.

We can work around many different sized areas, if you have a 6m x 6m space such as a hall or conference room, we can bring free roam. If you have less space, or smaller spaces, we can break it up into smaller zones (minimum 2m x 2m) and arrange the play areas around what you have, allowing pod-based games.

We are aiming to release this service soon.

Our Library of Virtual Reality Games

Full Games List Here

Things To Know
Pricing and time

We charge £22 per person for a 1 hour session (arcade or escape room), £25 for a premium escape room. This can be any group size the game allows. Remember, escape rooms are usually designed for groups of two or more. Arcade games can be solo (in a pod) or group (in our multiplayer rooms), either competitive or cooperative.

What are the Premium Rooms Node and Flux?

Node and Flux are our premium rooms, each with their own unique games, with a few that they share.
Node games include: Assassins Creed: Escape the Lost Pyramid, Assassins Creed: Medusa’s Gate, Assassins Creed: Temple of Anubis, Huxley, Prince of Persia: Dagger of Time, Jumpers and Virtual Rabbids: The Big Maze.
Flux games include: Eclipse, Greenium, Prismatic Tower, B-Block Breakout, Paranormal Pest Patrol, Blasters of the Universe: Infinity Forever and Critical Mass.
Games you can play in both rooms are: Jolly Island, Trails of Gold and Gravity League.

Opening Hours

Our weekday opening hours vary during term time/school holidays, but weekends are always the same.

Bank holidays are open for weekend hours, from 12 - 9pm.

Term times:
Monday – Closed
Tuesday – 3– 8 pm (bookings only)
Wednesday – 3 – 8 pm*
Thursday – Closed
Friday – 3 – 8 pm (bookings only)
Saturday – 12 – 8 pm*
Sunday – 12 – 6 pm*

School Holiday times:
Monday – Closed
Tuesday – 12– 8 pm (bookings only)
Wednesday – 12 – 8 pm*
Thursday – Closed
Friday – 12 – 8 pm (bookings only)
Saturday – 12 – 8 pm*
Sunday – 12 – 6 pm*

Last bookings are an hour before closing, and opening times may vary over bank holidays and school holidays.

* Walk-ins available Wednesdays and Weekends (depending on availability).

Multiplayer Rooms and Pods

Our games rooms have 2 formats, Multiplayer and Pods.

Multiplayer rooms can be both stationary or free roam, in both of these a virtual world is built around you, but in free roam, you can move around in real space too. Rooms are approximately 5 m x 5 m, the walls in VR are your boundaries.

(Coming Soon) - Our single-player Pods are where you don't walk but move with your controllers. Here a large open world and expansive environment can be made to explore, by yourself and others. You have a smaller space from 2 m x 2 m where you can move slightly in, but in VR walking/running is done with the controllers.

Game duration and finishing games quickly

Our escape rooms are on average 45 minutes in length, which can vary with group size and difficulty, although you may solve them faster! If so you can choose another game or two to play to fill up your allotted hour. Our arcade games can last from 10 minutes, others as long as you want to play them if you want to play more rounds.

Multiple bookings

You may book for more than one hour, and play for as long as you feel comfortable, although we would suggest a break periodically to rest your eyes. Also, VR is surprisingly tiring, requiring movement and focus. You can book back to back sessions and take breaks when you feel you need to.

Help and assistance when playing in VR

During the experience, there will be a dedicated Game Master who will be available to give clues if you get stuck, or to help with problems, load games or any technical difficulties. They are also there to ensure safety. They will brief you on how to use the equipment and watch the game to reduce risk of injury if the guidelines are not followed.

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