Paradiso is an immersive theater experience and interactive game that was created by Michael Counts.
[2] Counts drew inspiration for Paradiso from Dante's Divine Comedy and the experience features elements of crime noir.
[3] The first chapter's premise places ten participants in a locked apartment that they must escape while also evading the Virgil Corporation, a shadowy crime gang.
[3] Paradiso: Chapter 1 received praise from media outlets such as Fangoria and the New York Daily News, the former of which felt that it was an "intense and reinvigorating escape room experience" and compared it favorably to similar immersive theater experiences by Counts.
[3][5] The New Yorker was mostly positive in their review, noting that while the puzzles and plot "feel desultory" the show worked as a haunted house experience.