Review: “Escape Academy” accurately captures the frustration and giddy satisfaction of real-life escape rooms, and manages not to overstay its welcome.
being held against your will by some kind of Willy Wonka-esque Bond villain; you’re paying to pretend to be locked in a room with your friends, to scratch your head over puzzles and enjoy the scramble and inherent silliness of trying to find a way out. “Escape Academy” understands this — and embraces it wholeheartedly.
You begin the game in what appears to be a normal escape room that’s revealed to be a covert front for the Escape Academy, a school where students train to become masters of escape room puzzles. As its newest recruit, you work to earn badges by breaking out of the school’s escape rooms, securing your freedom and — more often than not — your continued survival. The faculty iscommitted to cultivating its students’ skill sets, and burning buildings and ticking time bombs are compelling motivators.
At the start of one stage, for example, I needed to find the class pet rat to charge a generator with its running wheel to turn the power back on. I spotted a snack machine with a single doughnut I could use to coax the little dude out of hiding. But first I had to find the coins to buy it, and of course it isn’t a normal snack machine but amachine, so the item number that I need to tap in to buy the doughnut is the solution to a sudoku puzzle. That’s just the first stage, though.
While it has a single-player mode, “Escape Academy” is best enjoyed as a co-op adventure, either through online multiplayer or good old-fashioned split-screen. The design of each puzzle incentivizes you to collaborate and share your findings. In one instance, my husband and I needed to solve a logic puzzle to fix a breaker box.
“Escape Academy” reminded both of us of another co-op game, “Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes,” in that there was never really a time when we weren’t communicating. One of us would find a piece of the puzzle that unlocked a flash of realization in the other — a frantic back-and-forth that felt more exciting than stressful.
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