Escape Simulator

Item: Escape Simulator
Rating: 91
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-04-03

Summary

Engaging puzzles create an escape-room experience.
Accessible gameplay with vast, community-created content.
Enhanced co-op puzzle solving adds depth.
Well-implemented VR mode enhances immersion.
Clunky controls and unintuitive design.
Significant motion sickness issues in VR.

Reviews (sample size): 2000
Helpful reviews: 67%
Unhelpful reviews: 33%
Protest reviews: 0%

91%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
9%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 2769
Negative points: 853
Gameplay points: 208
Perf. points: 43
Rec. points: 560
Misc points: 62

Point	Description	Importance
Engaging, logical puzzles; escape-room feel Description The game provides well-designed and varied puzzles, often compared to real-life escape rooms, that are logical and intuitive. Hints are available, and the puzzles strike a balance between challenging and accessible, providing a satisfying sense of accomplishment. The game effectively simulates the escape room experience, offering a cost-effective and convenient alternative to physical locations. Importance 95%	The game provides well-designed and varied puzzles, often compared to real-life escape rooms, that are logical and intuitive. Hints are available, and the puzzles strike a balance between challenging and accessible, providing a satisfying sense of accomplishment. The game effectively simulates the escape room experience, offering a cost-effective and convenient alternative to physical locations.	95%
Accessible, polished, enjoyable gameplay Description The game is praised for its accessibility, intuitive controls, and overall polish, making it easy to pick up and play for newcomers. It features charming graphics and a lighthearted tone, creating a comfortable and enjoyable experience for players of all skill levels. Importance 63%	The game is praised for its accessibility, intuitive controls, and overall polish, making it easy to pick up and play for newcomers. It features charming graphics and a lighthearted tone, creating a comfortable and enjoyable experience for players of all skill levels.	63%
Vast content; community-created levels Description The game boasts extensive content through Steam Workshop integration and a built-in level editor, allowing players to create and share custom escape rooms. This community-driven content provides a vast and ever-expanding library of levels, with some community-made rooms rivaling or even surpassing the quality of the official maps, ensuring endless replayability. Importance 57%	The game boasts extensive content through Steam Workshop integration and a built-in level editor, allowing players to create and share custom escape rooms. This community-driven content provides a vast and ever-expanding library of levels, with some community-made rooms rivaling or even surpassing the quality of the official maps, ensuring endless replayability.	57%
Enhanced co-op puzzle solving Description The game's cooperative multiplayer mode enhances the puzzle-solving experience, fostering communication, teamwork, and shared moments of triumph. Playing with friends or a significant other is highly recommended, as it adds a new dimension to the gameplay and creates a more enjoyable and engaging experience. Importance 48%	The game's cooperative multiplayer mode enhances the puzzle-solving experience, fostering communication, teamwork, and shared moments of triumph. Playing with friends or a significant other is highly recommended, as it adds a new dimension to the gameplay and creates a more enjoyable and engaging experience.	48%
Well-implemented, immersive VR mode Description The game offers a well-implemented VR mode that enhances the immersive experience, making it feel more real and exciting, especially when working on puzzles. The VR version is often included for free and receives ongoing updates, making it a key purchase driver for many players. Importance 15%	The game offers a well-implemented VR mode that enhances the immersive experience, making it feel more real and exciting, especially when working on puzzles. The VR version is often included for free and receives ongoing updates, making it a key purchase driver for many players.	15%
Replayable levels with time limits Description Each level comes with a soft time limit to beat, and the game allows redoing levels, making speedrun achievements easier. Optional challenges, such as finding tokens or beating specific times, add replay value. Importance 13%	Each level comes with a soft time limit to beat, and the game allows redoing levels, making speedrun achievements easier. Optional challenges, such as finding tokens or beating specific times, add replay value.	13%
Relaxing and fun with friends Description The game is suitable for relaxation or playing with friends. It's good to play with your partner. Fun to play together Importance 9%	The game is suitable for relaxation or playing with friends. It's good to play with your partner. Fun to play together	9%
Diverse, creative room themes Description The game features a wide variety of themed escape rooms, each with its own unique style and set of puzzles. These themes range from Ancient Egyptian to Victorian mansions and futuristic space stations, providing a consistently engaging and visually appealing experience. Importance 8%	The game features a wide variety of themed escape rooms, each with its own unique style and set of puzzles. These themes range from Ancient Egyptian to Victorian mansions and futuristic space stations, providing a consistently engaging and visually appealing experience.	8%
Intuitive room editor for creation Description The game includes a relatively simple and intuitive room editor, allowing players to create their own custom levels and share them with the community. This feature empowers players to unleash their creativity and design complex puzzles, adding another layer of depth and replayability to the game. Importance 6%	The game includes a relatively simple and intuitive room editor, allowing players to create their own custom levels and share them with the community. This feature empowers players to unleash their creativity and design complex puzzles, adding another layer of depth and replayability to the game.	6%
Challenging hidden token collectibles Description The game includes optional challenges, such as finding hidden tokens in each level, which adds an extra layer of challenge and replay value. These tokens are often cleverly hidden, requiring thorough exploration and creative thinking to discover them all. Importance 6%	The game includes optional challenges, such as finding hidden tokens in each level, which adds an extra layer of challenge and replay value. These tokens are often cleverly hidden, requiring thorough exploration and creative thinking to discover them all.	6%
Active developer; curates community content Description The developers at Pine Studios actively curate and showcase the best community-created rooms, fostering a thriving community and keeping the game fresh with new content. They also host design contests and provide ongoing support, encouraging players to create and share their own unique escape room experiences. Importance 5%	The developers at Pine Studios actively curate and showcase the best community-created rooms, fostering a thriving community and keeping the game fresh with new content. They also host design contests and provide ongoing support, encouraging players to create and share their own unique escape room experiences.	5%