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Escape Simulator
First-person puzzler you can play solo or in an online co-op. Explore a set of highly interactive escape rooms. Move furniture, pick up and examine everything, smash pots and break locks! Play thousands of community-made rooms through the level editor.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
What reviewers agree on
85 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“This game is lots of fun if you like classic computer escape rooms. Best experience if you can play it with Steam VR with VR Headset. The puzzles are fun and challenging. Lots of levels to play as well!”
“This game understands that 70% of the fun of escape rooms isn't solving puzzles, it's the tactile joy of turning a key in a lock and feeling it pop open.”
“Peak game for chilling. Some puzzles can be unintuitive but really fun for the most part. Beat the main game and just occasionally come back for community maps or the odd free map the devs release. Worth your time and…”
32 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“This game is so much fun! Great for virtual game nights with friends or date nights! I highly recommend!”
“very fun and peaceful to play with friend not too easy not too hard”
“super fun with friends, highly recommend”
22 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“This game is lots of fun if you like classic computer escape rooms. Best experience if you can play it with Steam VR with VR Headset. The puzzles are fun and challenging. Lots of levels to play as well!”
“Better than the sequel. The rooms are a bit claustrophobic, especially in multiplayer, but the puzzles are a lot of fun and the aesthetics and style are great. Most of the puzzles are fair with solutions that seem…”
12 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Better than the sequel. The rooms are a bit claustrophobic, especially in multiplayer, but the puzzles are a lot of fun and the aesthetics and style are great. Most of the puzzles are fair with solutions that seem…”
“Super looooove all the puzzles, themes, and rooms! I haven’t tried escape rooms IRL but this game really made me feel like I experienced one”
“A very well-made escape room game with beautiful visuals and excellent puzzles. There’s a huge amount of content, plus the Workshop and level editor add even more value. The only issue is that despite supporting more…”
11 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Better than the sequel. The rooms are a bit claustrophobic, especially in multiplayer, but the puzzles are a lot of fun and the aesthetics and style are great. Most of the puzzles are fair with solutions that seem…”
“very fun and peaceful to play with friend not too easy not too hard”
“really enjoyable game. Puzzle are challenging and the hints are helpful!”
5 of the 103 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“They removed the best part of this game, the VR compatibility. the whole reason I bought this game was for VR, now thats completely pointless.”
“Better than the sequel. The rooms are a bit claustrophobic, especially in multiplayer, but the puzzles are a lot of fun and the aesthetics and style are great. Most of the puzzles are fair with solutions that seem…”
“A very well-made escape room game with beautiful visuals and excellent puzzles. There’s a huge amount of content, plus the Workshop and level editor add even more value. The only issue is that despite supporting more…”
5 of the 103 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“Advertises in the game that I can't close to actually play the game I've already bought.”
“Why would you as a developer put a continue button on the victory screen when there are still tokens to collect? The amount of missclikcs that have caused me to have to restart and redo the entire level just to be able…”
“Pretty good game. It sometimes gets difficult and you are completely lost, and finding tokens can get so frustrating. But it's definitely a good game for those who seek to do puzzles and search around a very closed…”
4 of the 103 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“Small rooms, finicky controls and occaisonally obtuse solutions blunt an otherwise joyfully authentic rendition of an escape room. Complete with all the settings, puzzles and logic only possible in a video-game. Bring…”
“Buen juego, me cuesta mucho porque soy retrasado clinicamente”
“Really fun game to play with friends. Some of the puzzles and DLC is bullcrap hard. The Pirate/Island bonus room made me want to throw my laptop at the wall. But yknow, it's still really good! Graphics are cute. i was…”
3 of the 103 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“A decent click everywhere until you find the object puzzle game The problem with these kinds of games is that it needs good story variety and smart puzzles Felt a lot more like find the hidden object and deal with some…”
“Newest room crashes as soon as I get the ball rolling. Fun game great puzzles my wife and I love it but updating after so long just for a room to not work is really frustrating.”
3 of the 103 reviews raise this · 1 of them still recommend the game.
“A decent click everywhere until you find the object puzzle game The problem with these kinds of games is that it needs good story variety and smart puzzles Felt a lot more like find the hidden object and deal with some…”
“They are more like escape closets than escape rooms. It's a little odd how claustrophobic the levels are, especially if you're supposed to be able to do multiplayer and especially after playing something with more room…”
Counted across 103 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 94.1% positive rating · as of 2026-05-20
“To me, this is the standard to which all other escape room games should be compared. It's truly the Portal of the escape room genre. Been playing it for years, and they're still updating it and adding new levels, which is great”
— a player, Steam review · 168 hrs played“Well made, nice designed puzzles and art, and we have been enjoying it in coop mode. Linux note: The native Linux version (installed by default) it is completely broken. The windows version works flawlessly with compatability tools built into steam. Keep this in mind when…”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs played“Absolutely can recommend it. Escape room difficulty varies, but most also provide hints if necessary. Community workshop adds a lot more rooms to solve.”
— a player, Steam review · 92 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 13:39 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Steam Frame Support Beta
Hey everyone, This small update adds beta support for Steam Frame, Valve’s upcoming VR device. It should already run smoothly, and we’ll keep improving support as the hardware gets closer to release.W
ES: Multiplayer Update
Hey everyone,We found out that some players were having connection and multiplayer issues because the new AiProtection on some ASUS routers was falsely detecting and blocking our server.To work around
Xbox Update Hotfix #1
Hey everyone!We just released a small hotfix for yesterday’s Xbox update.This one is mostly about making sure everything runs smoothly after the big release. We fixed a few cross-platform and multipla
ES Update: Cross-Platform Multiplayer and Xbox Launch
Hey everyone!We just released a new Escape Simulator update with a bunch of fixes and optimizations, especially for Community Rooms. They should now use less RAM and run more smoothly. But the big new
A New Free Room, a Growing Team, and the Future of Escape Simulator!
Hello, Escapers!It’s a big day at Pine Studio. We have some exciting news about our team, a brand-new free room for you to play right now, and a look at what’s coming next for both Escape Simulator 1
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Adventure, Casual, Indie, Simulation |
| Player tags | Puzzle · Co-op · Multiplayer · Escape Room · First-Person · Adventure · Online Co-Op · Mystery · Controller · Singleplayer · Family Friendly · Casual (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · Cross-Platform Multiplayer · Steam Achievements |
| Languages | English * , Japanese * , Korean * , Simplified Chinese * , Traditional Chinese * , French * , German * , Spanish - Spain * , Portuguese - Portugal * , Portuguese - Brazil * , Spanish - Latin America * , Turkish * , Itali… |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 25 |
| Estimated owners | 1,000,000 – 2,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://escapesimulator.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 (SP1+) Processor: X64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: DX10-capable GPU Storage: 18 GB available space Additional Notes: Some community-made rooms are quite big and performance heavy and need more RAM memory and better GPU.