Escape Simulator is a first person puzzle game focused on escape rooms. It uses special themed rooms with unique puzzles in each room to solve to exit the room. The concept and controls feel good and overall plays fine. The issue drives in the execution and the low replay value.

There is no random / generated rooms. Everything is the same every play though so that means little replay value as solving the same exact room in the same exact way doesn't really do anything. At most you can collect some hidden tokens that your most likely gonna look up online on the locations anyway for since it's almost impossible to know where some of them are.

Let's assume your okay with that and think there is enough levels entertain you. There is a total of 5 themes, each with about 5 levels in each so you got about a total of 25 levels by default. Given the timer, you can solve each room under 30 mins. Assuming you can finish each room in about 20 minutes, you can finish the entire game in about 500 mins. (About 8 and a half hours) The current DLC released 4 levels after a year of release which is about tops 80 mins or a hour and a half more of playtime. There is more DLC on the way but considering the pattern, it isn't going to add much more game time.

Alright well what about workshop / custom levels? Well issue with custom levels is they tend to be buggy, be unclear, and/or be poorly maintained. There is more bad workshop levels then there is good ones and I'm quite sure that has to do with how difficult it is to create a level with good design. I would say for every 1 golden good custom level, there is 4 bad ones. If you want to take the time, find good levels, and play them, I say go for it but hard to tell what level is good or not without wasting time in the puzzle.

So why I'm still recommending this game? It's faults are not strong enough to warrant a bad review. It's a $15 USD game that has good puzzles in it. Sure they don't have good replay value but it's still fun puzzles. Them NOT being randomly generated has it's upside that there was a lot of care put into the puzzles to make them work well.

Just know what your getting into before buying and at least consider waiting for a sale for this one.

Escape Simulator is a first person puzzle game focused on escape rooms. It uses special themed rooms with unique puzzles in each room to solve to exit the room. The concept and controls feel good and overall plays fine. The issue drives in the execution and the low replay value. There is no random / generated rooms. Everything is the same every play though so that means little replay value as solving the same exact room in the same exact way doesn't really do anything. At most you can collect some hidden tokens that your most likely gonna look up online on the locations anyway for since it's almost impossible to know where some of them are. Let's assume your okay with that and think there is enough levels entertain you. There is a total of 5 themes, each with about 5 levels in each so you got about a total of 25 levels by default. Given the timer, you can solve each room under 30 mins. Assuming you can finish each room in about 20 minutes, you can finish the entire game in about 500 mins. (About 8 and a half hours) The current DLC released 4 levels after a year of release which is about tops 80 mins or a hour and a half more of playtime. There is more DLC on the way but considering the pattern, it isn't going to add much more game time. Alright well what about workshop / custom levels? Well issue with custom levels is they tend to be buggy, be unclear, and/or be poorly maintained. There is more bad workshop levels then there is good ones and I'm quite sure that has to do with how difficult it is to create a level with good design. I would say for every 1 golden good custom level, there is 4 bad ones. If you want to take the time, find good levels, and play them, I say go for it but hard to tell what level is good or not without wasting time in the puzzle. So why I'm still recommending this game? It's faults are not strong enough to warrant a bad review. It's a $15 USD game that has good puzzles in it. Sure they don't have good replay value but it's still fun puzzles. Them NOT being randomly generated has it's upside that there was a lot of care put into the puzzles to make them work well. Just know what your getting into before buying and at least consider waiting for a sale for this one.