Room Escape Artist

Latest update: November 21, 2022

In our 2022 Holiday Gift Guide, we recommended the Oculus Quest 2… but why should you consider it?

Here is a selection of games that we expect escape room players to enjoy on the Quest 2.

Plus, the Quest 2 is the best value it’s ever been, so now might be your moment to indulge. Afterall, that’s what the holidays are for.

$350 (Meta)

Market Standouts

• I Expect You To Die & its sequel – Seated secret-agent escape games (review)
• A Fisherman’s Tale – Reality-bending escape game
• The Last Clockwinder – Automation machine puzzler
• The Room VR: A Dark Matter – Obviously (review)

Puzzle Centric

• Shadow Point – Perspective puzzles with light and shadow
• A Rogue Escape – In the spirit of Nauticrawl (figure out a complicated machine with zero instruction)

Interlocking Puzzles

• Tetris Effect – Tetris synthesized to music and mesmerizing visuals
• Cubism – Interlocking block puzzles
• Puzzling Places – 3D jigsaw puzzles based off 3D scans of landmarks
• Shores of Loci – Like Puzzling Places but with a story in a fantasy world

Set & Scenery Driven

• Red Matter & Red Matter 2 – Immersive stories with light puzzling (and light action in sequel)
• Shadowgate VR: The Mines of Mythrok – Like a Zelda dungeon come to life

Newbie Friendly

• The Curious Tale of Stolen Pets – Mostly search mechanics
• Ghost Giant – Diorama puzzle game with emotional story
• Down the Rabbit Hole – Charming diorama puzzles in Wonderland

Something Different

• Superhot – A FPS but reflex mechanics are replaced with… er… body-spatial-puzzling? Hard to explain. Just try it.
• Gadgeteer – Accomplish challenges by building Rube Goldberg machines
• Moss & Moss Book 2 – Narrative puzzle platformers
• Time Stall – Think Angry Birds + bullet time in mini escape rooms