Tabletop Escape Game Recommendations

Latest update: November 22, 2020

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

These are our favorite escape room-style table top 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: 2016 or 2017 or 2018 or 2019 or 2020.

🔒 Golden Lock award winning experience

In-game: a green biohazard box locked with a plastic 3 digit lock, a gold plastic warded lock, and art depicting a female werewolf.

Boxed Escape Rooms

Boxed escape rooms will take you about 60 minutes to play. This is a longer list… but there are a ton of different games in this category. These were the standouts.

Presented in alphabetical order:

BlueFish Games, The Curious Set: Elevator & Stairs
Box One Presented By Neil Patrick Harris 🔒
Crack a Nut Mysteries, Root of All Evil 🔒
DarkPark Games, Witchery Spell 🔒
Deckscape, Heist in Venice
Deckscape, Test Time
Doctor Esker’s Notebook
Exit: The Game, The Catacombs of Horror (for those who are comfortable with Exit’s game mechanics)
Exit The Game, The Sunken Treasure (for those new to the series)
Mattel, Escape Room in a Box: Flashback
Mattel, Escape Room in a Box: The Werewolf Experiment
Scooby-Doo: Escape from The Haunted Mansion
ThinkFun, Escape The Room: The Cursed Dollhouse
ThinkFun, Mystery at the Stargazer’s Manor 🔒
Unlock!, Squeek & Sausage (for those new to the series)
Unlock!, The Adventures of Oz (for those who are comfortable with Unlock!’s game mechanics)

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.

The first page of a Cryptogram Puzzle Post laying on an open envelope with a beautiful illustration.

Subscription Games

Each episode of a subscription escape room takes about 60 minutes to play. New games arrive at your door on a regular schedule.

Presented in alphabetical order:

Cryptogram Puzzle Post
Escape the Crate
Society of Curiosities, Mystery Subscription Box

In-game: a beautiful, intricate laser engraved/ laser cut wooden puzzle box.

Jigsaw Puzzles

These jigsaw puzzles added an escape room-style twist.

Ravensburger, Escape Puzzle … especially Space Observatory and Witch’s Kitchen

Portion of an assembled jigsaw puzzle featuring a beautiful telescope in a warm book-filled study. — Space Observatory

Advanced Challenge & Commitment

These products are more involved than tabletop escape rooms. They are all quite different from each other.

Presented in alphabetical order:

Asmodee, Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
Enigma Emporium, Wish You Were Here
PostCurious, The Tale of Ord
SparkFun, The Prototype HARP (requires background knowledge & tools)

Quiz Master: A red tube with input for a 3 digit number and a letter answer. A key is protruding from its side. An array of corresponding puzzle cards are fanned in front of it.

For Kids

Presented in alphabetical order:

Escape Game Adventure, The Mad Hacker
Escape Game Adventure: The Last Dragon
Spycode, Break Free
Spycode, Operation Escape

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

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