Escape Room Academy Reviews

I don't know why but I expected more, it looks too pretty to be this basic but it's still an okay time waster if you like to use your brain to solve light puzzles for fun. Don't expect much, the price point is accurate when it comes to complexity and length.

The tone of the game feels very patronizing, and I couldn't get past one of the locks because it wouldn't accept the correct answer (the amount of triangles x 11: I counted 18, and the hint said it was between 15 and 20, and none of the numbers 15-20 x 11 are accepted). Seems sloppy and doesn't inspire confidence, so I don't feel like playing any more of it unfortunately.

Having just completed this game, my opinion is that it's terrible. Here are some of my grievances with it: * The game's tone is very childish. Every time you open a box (i.e. a good eight times per level), it celebrates with a dancing policewoman and her dog. Yes, game, I know I've opened a box, you don't have to be patronising about it. The voice acting doesn't help, either. * The sound options don't work properly. After sliding the voices down to zero, it still continues to play voice lines for some time. * The game comes with a timer that starts *before* you get into each level. * Many of the puzzles across the levels are extremely similar and unimaginative. Each level, for instance, involves a puzzle where you construct a picture of a key. Each level after the tutorial involves a 3x3 sliding puzzle as a finale. Each level after the tutorial involves "count the number of objects in these three groups" several times. Many levels involve three matrix puzzles (like you might see on an IQ test), each one extracting to a number between 1 and 6. For that matter, every single code you need in the game is 3 digits long. You get the idea. * Aside from the "construct a picture of a key" puzzle and the 3x3 sliding puzzles, none of the puzzles are interactive. All other puzzles are of the form "look for something in the picture (yes, every level is a single picture), or something within these clue cards". * At least one puzzle in the game is outright wrong (it asks you to count the number of triangles in the diagram; there are sixteen triangles, but the game only accepts the answer of fourteen triangles, as if the developers didn't spot two of the triangles in question). * At times, you will get multiple boxes to open. It is often not sufficiently hinted which code corresponds to which box. * There are only five levels. I completed them all within 50 minutes (for comparison, a couple of the rooms have a time limit of 45 minutes). * The game's ranking system is broken. You can only get stars for accuracity[sic] and not any of the other points. I guess I'm a 3-star accuracity solver but I'm neither an emotional, logical, or spatial thinker because I have no stars on any of them. And apparently I spend too much time on these rooms since I have zero stars for time. I genuinely wonder if the developers have ever been in an escape room. Or have ever played a game that isn't targeted at children. All in all, a sloppily-made game that isn't even worth your time, let alone your money. The game needs a lot more content and a consultant who actually works at an escape room, in order to get somewhere that's worth spending your money on. As for me, I'll be refunding it.