Escape Academy

"My gaming chum and I had a blast working through the intricate puzzle-filled stages of Escape Academy and I&s;m sure you will, too."

"Escape Academy is a wholesome, family-friendly adventure film come to life. The bright colors and blocky shapes lend to the idea of Saturday morning cartoon fun. The puzzles are clever, often requiring the player to pause for a moment and …"

"Puzzle games have to manage a delicate balancing act: If solutions are too simple, players lose interest; too difficult, and they feel cheated, like the answer was never decipherable to begin with. “Escape Academy” was opaque at times, but the …"

"Escape Academy is a worthy escape room game with a lot of strong puzzles. It&s;s on the short side, but there&s;s a lot of quality on display."

"A reasonable co-op experience for those seeking to do some puzzling with a friend, but not good for much else."

"Escape Academy is a fun, addictive puzzler that captures the escape room magic with plenty of detail and variety, you&s;ll just wish it lasted a little longer."

"Escape Academy is an exciting puzzle game that invites the player to experience around a dozen unique escape rooms. While the world doesn’t evolve into much beyond that, it’s still a lot of fun to progress through the different challenges. …"

"Escape Academy is more than just an escape room simulator. It’s a narrative-based puzzle adventure bursting with personality. There’s a fine balance of characterisation, story exposition and puzzle solving that creates a uniquely enthralling experience. It’s a delightful way to …"

"For those missing the good old fashioned escape rooms of the pre-covid era, Escape Academy delivers a top notch set of puzzles in an interesting setting, which unfortunately isn&s;t explored any deeper."

"Escape Academy is a family-friendly puzzle game that will give you hours of fun at a very reasonable price point."

"Despite its empty halls and predictable plot, it&s;s a charming escape room sim that&s;s filled with clever puzzles that reward and rarely frustrate. The entire thing can be played with a bud too, making this a brilliant co-op jaunt."

"Escape Academy delivers lovingly crafted puzzles that shine in co-op play, but it can&s;t fully replicate the thrills of a real-life escape room."

"Escape Academy is filled with smart puzzles and unique mechanics that highlight the personalities of each character and the world they live in."

"At the end of the day, Escape Academy achieves much of what it sets out to do. Giving players and whenever possible, their co-op partners, the authentic escape room experience, cutting away the frustrations of real-life escape attempts, and focusing …"

"Ever wanted to try escape rooms but never got around to it? Well, Escape Academy is a real treat to tease your brain, especially in co-op. It&s;s approachable with a great hint system, whilst providing a decent challenge for more …"

"Escape Academy takes design inspiration from real-world escape rooms, for better and for worse."

"Escape Academy is an exceptionally well designed puzzle game, if not a flawlessly executed one. Developer Coin Crew Games has replicated the creativity and fine-tuned challenge of the best real-world escape rooms while amping up the fantasy and stakes in …"

"With any luck, Escape Academy will be successful enough to warrant a sequel, as its uniquely quirky academic world and its cast deserve to be fleshed out even further with even more meticulously-crafted escape rooms to solve. As is, though, …"

"Coin Crew Games delivered something special with Escape Academy. A true-to-its-roots escape room experience (and in our opinion, one of the most successful attempts to recreate this digitally). A compelling world. Puzzles that are just difficult enough that you are …"

"As it is, Escape Academy is still one of the best cooperative gaming experiences I&s;ve had this year and a great start for both Coin Crew Games and new publisher iam8bit."

"A very pleasant surprise in the current summer indie offer. The game brings relaxation, logical challenges and adds tension in one package. If you like puzzle games or escape room games, you should not miss it."

"Escape Academy may be a fairly brief experience for some, then, but it doesn’t take away from the fact that the puzzles here are thought-provoking and masterfully crafted. They test your ability to spot patterns and problem solve without ever …"

"Escape Academy is a unique and satisfying escape room-esque game that puzzle fans will truly dig. Some voice lines can be repetitive, and the puzzles can be a bit unclear on occasion, but otherwise, it’s a strong and delightfully puzzling …"

"Escape Academy captures the spirit of escape rooms in excellent fashion, wrapping up a string of thoroughly enjoyable puzzle-filled levels in a light and quirky story. Puzzle aficionados might find it a little easy, but it&s;s a commendable first effort …"

"Escape Academy offers a truly unique experience that provides the player with a sense of discovery that’s difficult to compare to any other game. I have a new itch to scratch, and now no other game can satisfy that. I’ll …"

"An unusual and memorable puzzle game. After finishing it, some people will definitely have an urge to play a real-life escape room."