Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Nov 13, 2021

  The game is great. The only problem is I am so stupid.
• gamedeal user

  Apr 8, 2022

  Really fun, with hours of content. Sadly non of my friends play this game nor was I easily able to find people to play this game with, so currently I have unlocked all achievements except 1 achievement which is "finish one co-op game". :( EDIT: Someone saw this review and played with me :)
• gamedeal user

  Nov 6, 2021

  This game has helped me realize my I.Q. is within a wide range from 120, to possibly -37.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 29, 2021

  Escape Simulator is an online cooperative game where you and up to three other people try to solve puzzles together and uncover collectibles. PROS: + Cooperative gameplay. + Cartoony graphics that're pleasing to the eye. + Lots of rooms made by developer (and more comping out for FREE!). + Rooms have different themes, ranging from Ancient Egyptian to Victorian mansions to futuristic space stations. + Public and private gaming. + Male and female characters, where you can choose clothing, hair style, skin color, hair color, etc. + Workshop integration from the start (with a bunch of player-made rooms). + Developer-made rooms are generally small, which cuts down on motion sickness. + Options included in-game to deal with motion sickness. + Room editor is relatively simple to use and relies on a tile-based grid system. + Time limit is purely for achievements and you can completely ignore it if you wish. + Relatively low system requirements for a game released in 2021. + Will run on older operating systems like Windows 7 or Win 8/8.1, and is compatible with Mac OS and Linux. + Steam Cloud NEUTRAL: +/- Time limit might annoy some players who feel as if they need to complete the room before time is up, despite the time meaning nothing beyond achievements. +/- Community-made rooms in the Workshop can vary greatly in quality (although this is through no fault of the developer). CONS: - Escape Simulator is only really fun when playing alongside at least one other person, which might make this game difficult to play if you have to rely on random players online. - Tokens are sometimes hidden in locations that are nearly impossible to see or get to, although the most recent developer-made rooms have been fixing that. - Game engine isn't designed (or at least optimized) for large rooms because some larger community-made rooms can cause a significant drop in framerate. - Very limited character customization, but at least character customization exists at all. In many Escape Room games you can't even make a character and instead you're essentially a "floating head." - While most of the graphics in the game are quite nice, there are some startling low textures on some (but not all!) carpets and other pieces of furniture. VERDICT: Escape Simulator is a fun game to play alongside friends or family (my wife is my co-op partner), and is probably the best escape room game we've come across on Steam up to this point. The developers have done everything they can to mitigate motion sickness (which is a real problem for some people, my wife included) and make the game as user-friendly as possible while giving people tools to be creative. The only drawback I can really see to this game is that while you don't technically need other players (as specified earlier, you can play single player), Escape Simulator would feel empty or lifeless without other real people involved. So for gamers who don't have readily available co-op partners, grouping with randoms is really the only alternative and in my experience that's a real crapshoot. That said... if you have at least one co-op partner and you enjoy escape rooms (and puzzles in general), I'd strongly recommend Escape Simulator. It's a great non-combative, stress-free alternative to the vast majority of games out there.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 12, 2021

  My friends don't know how to do simple addition ffs.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 15, 2021

  Completed the game in one session with three other friends. We had a blast solving riddles and finding all of the hidden tokens. On a side note, this game runs really well, constant high FPS, smooth gameplay with only occasional stutterung (once per level or so). We had a few disconnects / crashes, but then those didn't bother us all that much in our 8h session. I'm pointing this out because AAA games can't reach this standard of good optimization on release - good job developers! Since the devs are working hard on adding new content and the game has workshop support I suspect we'll still be having fun playing it in the following months / years after release!
• gamedeal user

  Feb 11, 2022

  Bring your friends here to see if they're idiots.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 10, 2022

  great game but i am clinically unintelligent
• gamedeal user

  Mar 29, 2022

  If you like Escape Rooms, try out the FREE DEMO. If you like the demo, check out the Steam Workshop for this game. Let's say you take 10 minutes to beat every workshop level on average: that's >20000 minutes = 333h of maps for you to beat. 15 bucks for this game is nothing, 12 bucks on a sale is an absolute steal. You might be tempted to think "I don't want to buy it because the co-op might be poorly synchronized! Look at the few bad reviews..." WRONG. In my experience with a friend, it used to be a bit bad (we joined the party pretty late) but after they pushed an update we had 0 problems with it. Nowadays it just works. Most if not all of the concerns are already taken care of, and the devs keep adding new props for mapmakers to use. Great to play each night for a while with a friend or even alone.
• gamedeal user

  May 21, 2022

  I really do enjoy this game. It is super fun. However, I wish there were more official maps. You can go through the game pretty quickly and are just left with the workshops. While the workshop has some cool maps, it often gets really buggy and I hate that some maps aren't multiplayer. I was excited when I saw the steampunk update, but then I realized it was a DLC... Will the DLC be free or will we have to buy it? I just feel like the game in general needs more content included into the base game, more official rooms.