Room Escape Artist

Latest update: August 30, 2025

Looking for an escape game that you can play from the comfort of your own home?

These are our favorite escape room-style tabletop games.

Unless otherwise noted, you can play all of these games with a bit of table space, pencil, paper, laptop/ phone, and maybe scissors.

For more at-home activities, take a look at our holiday gift guides:

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Boxed Escape Rooms

These games bring the magic of escape room-style solving to your table. There are lots of different styles. Some are mostly paper-based and others include more tangible components. They range in time commitment from just 60 minutes to many hours.

Puzzle-Story Adventures

• Asmodee, Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
• Box One Presented By Neil Patrick Harris 🔒
• Box Two Presented By Neil Patrick Harris
• BlueFish Games, The Case of the Curiously Correct Blueprints: An Ells and Ernie Mystery 🔒
• BlueFish Games, The Curious Set: Elevator and Stairs
• Cantaloop Book 1: Breaking into Prison 🔒
• Crack a Nut Mysteries, Root of All Evil 🔒
• DarkPark Games, Never House 🔒
• DarkPark Games, Witchery Spell 🔒
• Diorama, The Medusa Report 🔒
• Funbi Games, Puzztastic! Puzzle Pack 1
• Hasbro, Clue: Treachery at Tudor Mansion
• Pop Fiction Games, The Shivers 🔒
• PostCurious, Adrift
• PostCurious, Emerald Echoes
• PostCurious, Emerald Flame🔒
• PostCurious, Ministry of Lost Things 🔒
• PostCurious, The Morrison Game Company 🔒
• PostCurious, The Light in the Mist 🔒
• PostCurious, Threads of Fate
• Puzzle Post, The Disappearance
• Society of Curiosities quarterly subscription (review of Madok’s Lost Treasure)
• Spencer Beebe, Lost in the Shuffle 🔒
• Spencer Beebe, Squirrels Gone Wild
• Studio Stamp, On Circus Grounds
• Unexpected Games, The Initiative 🔒

Novel Form Factor

• CU Adventures, Solve Our Shirts: Treasure Trove of Pirates Cove
• CU Adventures, Solve Our Shirts: Escape from the Maze of the Minotaur 🔒

Mass Market

• Deckscape, Heist in Venice
• Deckscape, Test Time
• Exit: The Game, Kidnapped in Fortune City
• Exit: The Game, The Catacombs of Horror
• Exit: The Game, The Return to the Abandoned Cabin
• Exit: The Game, The Sunken Treasure (for those new to the series)
• Hasbro, Clue: Treachery at Tudor Mansion
• Mattel, Escape Room in a Box: Flashback
• Mattel, Escape Room in a Box: The Werewolf Experiment 🔒
• Scooby-Doo: Escape from The Haunted Mansion
• ThinkFun, Mystery at the Stargazer’s Manor 🔒
• Unlock!, Squeek & Sausage (for those new to the series)

Escape Room-Style Puzzle Book 

This escape room-style puzzle book contains more content than a boxed escape room, but it’s easy to pick up and put down if you have limited time.

• 2120
• Journal 29
• Off the Wall Word Search
• Puzzlesnacks
• Puzzmo
• The Master Theorem

Print-and-Play

• Print + Cut + Escape series, clueQuest (multiple reviews)
• The Lost Temple 🔒 & Floor 13, CU Adventures in Time & Space
• The Social Distancing Puzzles, Eric Berlin

Jigsaw Puzzles

These jigsaw puzzles added an escape room-style twist.

• TED-Ed + PostCurious , Pandora’s Legacy 🔒
• Ravensburger, Escape Puzzle … especially Space Observatory and Witch’s Kitchen
• Magic Puzzle Company... especially Happy Isles

For Kids

• Escape Game Adventure, The Mad Hacker
• Escape Game Adventure, The Last Dragon
• Escape Room the Game, Escape your House: Spy Team
• Hasbro, Clue: Treachery at Tudor Mansion
• History Mysteries, The Medieval Mishap 🔒
• Mindware: Dig It Up! Crack the Crate, A Dragon’s World
• The Detective Society, Family Adventures
• Asmodee, Unlock! Kids: Detective Stories

You are always welcome to contact us if this recommendation list doesn’t answer your specific questions.

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