Escape room fans can get the digital alternative for at-home play on the Epic Games Store.
Whether at birthdays, company events, or as a leisure activity with friends – escape rooms offer cooperative puzzle fun. But if you don’t always want to get up off the couch for that, you can just stay on the couch this week with the Epic free-to-play game and enroll in the Escape Academy.
Free on Epic: Escape Academy
Genre: Puzzle – Developer: Coin Crew Games – Release: July 14, 2022
(At Escape Academy on the Epic Games Store)
At Escape Academy, you’ll perfect your breaking and entering skills. Just like in the real world, you’ll have to solve puzzles and riddles in different rooms.
In the story mode, you visit the individual professors at the academy, who present you with the tasks of their faculty. In theory, the entire game can be completed in single player mode.
However, Escape Academy thrives on the co-op experience and you can crack the puzzles in the different rooms both online and locally in split-screen mode for two.
However, it’s not about tasks that can only be solved with two players. You either work together on one puzzle or in parallel on different puzzles. In both cases, good communication is crucial.
In the puzzle tournament , you can also compete against your friends and not only solve brainteasers in three large arenas, but also discover secret shortcuts and tasks.
On the Epic Game Store, 88 percent of users recommend the game, and on Steam87 percent of the reviews are positive.
If Escape Academy has sparked your interest, you still have until 5:00 p.m. PT on January 23, 2025, to grab the game for free from the Epic Game Store. You can also find two DLCs there for $9 and $8, respectively. However, they can also both be purchased for $12 through the Season Pass and offer a total of ten new rooms with puzzles.
