Escape Simulator

Escape Simulator is a first-person escape room game with a large collection of interactive puzzles. By collecting clues around you, and matching them with the right locks and doors, you’ll progress from smooth rooms to more challenging setups. Whether you’re playing solo or online with friends, the variety of puzzles available makes this game a digital escape room classic.

If you’re not familiar with escape rooms, Escape Simulator comes with a tutorial telling you how they work. Your main skills are: looking around you for pieces of information, pushing and pulling furniture to reveal secrets, and picking up items that you can store in your inventory. You build up your inventory and your knowledge of the room in order to break coded locks and to open up doors, until you make a successful escape.

The rooms are themed around colorful time periods. You can play in ancient Egypt, in the Renaissance era, and even aboard a futuristic spaceship. Aside from the main escape routes, you may also solve additional puzzles and gather various collectible pieces. There’s a timer running while you solve puzzles, but you won’t be punished for failing to escape before it’s up—you’d only be missing a trophy reward. On a related note, you may ask for as many hints as you want, but keep in mind that you’ll only be given vague diagrams meant to nudge you in the right direction, and also that there’s a timeout enforced between every hint request.

Escape Simulator features a co-op system, which is played entirely online. It is suggested that you attempt your escapes with up to 3 players, but you can join with even more people if you feel like it. The cooperation mode fosters team communication and creativity in puzzle solving. However, if you’re feeling competitive, you can instead pit yourself against another player in one of the versus rooms!

Several DLCs were released aside from the main game, expanding the digital escape room experience into new decors—and also into alternate video games, such as Portal and Power Wash Simulator. These short (and free) “crossover” DLCs integrate mechanics and settings from the original games, adding a unique touch to the escape-room gameplay.

Escape Simulator enjoys a strong community of players, thanks in no small part to its in-game room editor. A wide range of assets are provided for thinky fans to create their own puzzle rooms. Literally thousands of custom levels have been created and made available, some of them with traditional designs, and others with quirkier mechanics. And you can also customize your character for an added bit of fun!

This description was written by Hira and edited by Oriane Tury.