Escape Academy is a point-and-click escape game. The developer is Coin Crew Games and the publisher is iam8bit, Skybound Games.
Format
Style of Play:
- Online native experience (can NOT be played IRL)
- Play on demand
- Point-and-click
Who is it For?
- Story seekers
- Puzzle lovers
- Any experience level… but it helps to have experience controlling characters on your platform of choice
Required Equipment: Steam on PC, Xbox, PS4/PS5, or Epic Games
Recommended Team Size: 1-2
Play Time: 4-8 hours of gameplay. Each level is typically between 15-30 minutes.
Price: $19.99 for base game, additional $14.99 for the season pass with 2 planned DLCs; base game available with subscription on XBox Gamepass
Booking: purchase and play at your leisure
Description
A simple jaunt to an escape room turned into an epic quest to join the Escape Academy, pass its tests, and unlock the secrets of its faculty. To do this, we had to complete 11 specific tasks given to us by the faculty, where each task translated into an entire escape room. Each “room” was a self-contained open world where we could travel in all directions, inspect designated hot spots, collect items, and interact with standard and not-so-standard escape room mechanisms like combination locks, keypads, chainsaws, and so forth. Each room had a time “limit” to give urgency to the activity, but you could choose to extend the timer when it expired.
There are both solo and multiplayer options.
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