One of the best things about puzzle games is that there is a wide range of variety in them. Escape room is one such sub-genre where you are placed in a situation or in a literal room from which you need to escape. In order to escape, you need to find hidden clues and form a strategy. Though the real-life escape style puzzle games are much more interactive and fun, by finding a good escape game, you can be lost in it for hours. Here are some of the best escape game apps for Android and iPhone.
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Best Escape Games Apps
1. 50 rooms 3
50 rooms 3 is the third installment of the popular 50 room franchise. It is a traditional escape room game and you will get to play 50 different rooms where you need to find all the obscure clues and hints to escape each and every room. If you ever get stuck, the game gives you some good hints to help you out.
Price: Free, has ads and in-app purchases.
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2. Can You Escape the 100 Room V
Can You Escape is a very popular and classic escape game. As you can tell from the name itself, this is the fifth installment of the Can You Escape franchise. Though the game title says 100 rooms, there are only fifty rooms to be solved. That being said, as you go on, the rooms become difficult and are quite fun to solve all the different puzzles to escape any given room.
Price: Free, has ads and in-app purchases.
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3. Cube Escape: Paradox
Cube Escape Paradox is the game where you play as a detective Dale Vandermeer who got mysteriously kidnapped and locked in a room. Your job is to find all the clues in the room and solving puzzles to escape. One of the things I really like about this game is that it has several games and film crossovers. Moreover, the game is divided into multiple chapters and has different endings depending on the choices you made while playing the game.
Price: Free, has ads and in-app purchases.
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4. The Room: Old Sins
The Room: Old Sins is a premium and highly rated escape room game with a really good story to boot with. It is not your traditional escape room game. In this game, you are looking for a lost artifact which in turn leads to solving the case of missing engineer friend and his high-status wife. While playing the game, you can interact with different objects in the room. If you want to, there is a whole series of The Room games with different challenges. Just visit the developer page in the Play Store to find them.
Price: The game costs $1.49.
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5. War Escape
As you can tell from the name itself, War Escape is a game where you play as a war prisoner tied up in a filthy bunker. You need to do everything in your hands like solving puzzles and finding hidden objects to unlock the rooms and complete your mission. The game has fifteen different locations with a good war atmosphere.
Price: Free, has ads and in-app purchases.
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6. Adventure Escape: Asylum
There is a killer on the loose in the Asylum. You are not only trying to escape from him but also trying to piece together your hazy memories and make sense of the things around you. The game is divided into chapters. Each chapter has its own unique escape challenges with awesome graphics and mysteries about your memories.
Price: Free, has ads and in-app purchases.
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7. Home Town Adventure
Home Town Adventure is another classic escape room game. In the game, you find yourself in a locked-down house. You need to solve all the puzzles to unlock different rooms and eventually escape the house with your body intact. Each room in the house has its own unique puzzles, hidden objects, and hinting system.
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Price: Free, has ads and in-app purchases.
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8. Adventure Escape: Dark Ruins
The Dark Ruins is an adventure escape game where you are crash-landed in an ancient city that is riddled with secrets, mystery, and magic. Not only the ancient city is magical but the ancient forces living there are threatening to flood the entire world. You need to survive the night, escape the old ruins by finding all the clues and save the world from terrible flood while you are at it. If you like a good story game where you can interact with your friends then give the Dark Ruins a try. I’m sure you’ll like it.
Price: Free, has ads and in-app purchases.
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9. True Fear: Forsaken Souls I
Forsaken Souls is a dark and horror adventure game where you are trying to unravel the secrets behind your mother’s death and sister’s disappearance. What makes this game special is that you can either choose to play the escape room puzzles or hidden object scenes. While playing the game, you can unlock 40 different achievements and other bonus material like concept art, secret info, additional puzzles, etc.
Price: Free and has in-app purchases.
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10. Escape Through History
As the name suggests, you will be thrown into a portal which takes you back in time. To escape from there, you need to visit various historic events and solve different puzzles. As you solve the puzzles, you get to know more about the situation you are in and reach the present time intact. One of the best things about this game is that it has an auto-save function so that you can quit the game whenever you want and continue next time from the same place.
Price: Free and has ads.
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11. Spotlight: Room Escape
Spotlight is another traditional room escape game where you are kidnapped and locked up in an unknown room. Not only you are kidnapped but all your memories are hazy and jumbled. Your aim is to find all the clues you can to not only escape the rooms but also to recover your memories. The best thing about Spotlight is that it looks and feels like a theatrical drama. Moreover, almost every object in the room is placed in a logical place which makes a lot of fun to solve puzzles.
Price: Free, has ads and in-app purchases.
Spotlight: Room Escape (Android | iOS)
12. The Escapists: Prison Escape
The Escapists: Prison Escape is an awesome looking 8-bit game where you role-play as a prisoner. Unlike other games where you find the clues to escape, you need to find the clues and make useful objects out of them right under the nose the prison guards. Once you have all the tools you need, you can plan your sweet escape from prison. The best thing about this game is that it requires a strategic play to escape from various situations.
Price: The game costs you $6.49.
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13. Escape Titanic
Who doesn’t know the about the Titanic? Well, as you can tell from the name itself, Escape Titanic is a game inspired by the famous Titanic incident. As the ship is going down, you need to solve puzzles and find hidden objects to unlock rooms and escape the ship.
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Price: Free, has ads and in-app purchases.
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14. The Lost City
The Lost City is set in a mysterious place that is considered a legend and myth. However, what’s in front of your eyes is The Lost City, just as your grandmother said. Your job is to find all the secrets and escape from the legendary place. The game is a classic escape game with a lot of puzzles and hidden items. Every item and artifact you collect will tell a story about the city.
Price: The game costs you $1.99 and there are no in-app purchases.
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15. The House of Da Vinci
If you like the classic ‘The Room’, you will like this one. As the name suggests, the game revolves around the “House of Da Vinci”. The game makes you solve mechanical puzzles, discover hidden objects, unlock boxes and much more.
Price: The game is free to play with $4.99 in-app purchases.
16. Laqueus Escape
The game starts with a very spooky, old burst radio frequency-like intro already gripping you in (use headphone). The gameplay is a bit similar to other games, where you can tap on objects and rotate the field of view to reveal objects. Of course, you use these to get ahead and unlock doors, but even when you think you have the right objects fitting at the right places, you get nowhere ahead in the game.
The only way to move forward and escape the room is by spending more time with the clues and finding creative ways to use them.
The game seems easy initially, but you get to a point where even after you have all the clues you are nowhere close to the finish, moreover the background music has a horror-like tone, which grips you but makes you anxious at the same time.
The game has 4 chapters in total, with the option to restart chapters. There is also a hint icon, which allows you to fetch a hint by watching ads, but that didn’t work for me. The pro version comes at $4, but oddly, I didn’t find any ads in the game.
Price: Free, has ads(didn’t pop up while I used), and in-app purchases.
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17. Nox Mystery Adventure
Nox is touted as one of the best escape games on the app store. With terrific 3D graphics laced with a detective-like storyline, it might not be suited for some who are looking for a small-sized game. If that’s not a problem this puzzle will surely put your mind to work as you have to find multiple clues in various room locations. If you’re looking for a combination of logical thinking, detective, and escape genre game, this one has all well fitted into one.
The game can be confusing for first-timers although I highly recommend you to try and solve it in one go. If you get stuck, there are plenty of walkthrough videos you can refer to, like this one.
Price: Free, has ads, and in-app purchases(ad removal).
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Best Escape Game Apps?
Escape Room Games give you a different thrill and adrenaline rush mainly because it simulates real-life situations. I like Titanic escape because of the nostalgia and the impact Titanic had on me as a kid. True Fear and hell raids are one of the best games with an intriguing storyline. I hope that helps. Comment below sharing your thoughts and experiences about playing the above escape games.
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