Room Escape Artist

Last Updated: February 2026

Update 2025: Whether you’re looking for a date night, or a way to spend time with a friend who lives far away, check out our favorite remote-play games.

This year, instead of booking a romantic Valentine’s Day dinner out, you might be considering a romantic evening in… with an escape game.

Most of these recommendations are adaptations of point-and-click style gameplay. Some have roots in physical escape rooms, and others are influenced by the escape room format.

If you can’t have a classic Valentine’s Day out (or even if you can!), here are our picks for Valentine’s Day from home:

Designed for Exactly 2 People

• Alone Together & Together Apart & Together at Heart & Apart in Time, Enchambered
• Parallel Lab, Eleven Puzzles
• The Past Within, Rusty Lake
• The Social Distancing Puzzles, Eric Berlin (print-and-play word puzzles)
• Tick Tock: A Tale for Two
• The We Were Here Series: We Were Here and its sequels

Recommended for 2 People

• A Death in the Red Light, Mystery City Games
• Hallows Hill: The Virtual Escape Room Experience, Wolf Escape Rooms 🔒
• Miami Bay: The Online Escape Room Experience, Wolf Escape Rooms
• Print + Cut + Escape: Mechanics of the Heart, clueQuest (and other games from the Print + Cut + Escape series)
• Sherlock Holmes: Phantom’s Hour, Wolf Escape Rooms
• Temporal Tangle Online & The Strange Disappearance On Station Eleven, Next Level Escape
• The Cyphstress, Deadlocked
• The Lost Temple 🔒 & Floor 13, CU Adventures
• The Sound of Spring, Ukiyo
• The Warp Core, Clue HQ (review of Part 2 & review of Part 3)
• Unboxing the Mind of a Cryptic Killer, Eleven Puzzles

Something Different

Month of Date Nights by Giddy Box provided us with a great opportunity to shut out all the other noise for an hour or two while we enjoyed each other’s company. Each week we spent about 5 minutes solving a puzzle and then 85 minutes engaging in couples’ activities. Giddy Box did a good job designing an experience appropriate for any level of relationship (dating, engaged, or married).  

Invite your Valentine (or anyone else!) and check out our favorite 2-player-friendly remote escape rooms!

🔒 Golden Lock award winning experience