Are you a big fan of escape rooms but can’t go out to play one in-person? Are you also a gamer? So are we, which explains why we have a video game-themed escape room at our location! But if you aren’t able to make it out to an in-person game, check out some of our picks for fun escape room video games / escape room-like video games below!

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The Room on Steam

The Room / The Room Pocket

This is the most straightforward, obvious entry on the list where it’s literally an escape room in a video game format. However, The Room presents everything in beautifully rendered 3D environments with highly interactive items like books, locks, blacklights, etc. You don’t only “escape” but you are also doing things like breaking into something. Even though the game is called The Room, it’s more than just the room but everything around you.

In addition to just being an escape room game, The Room is made for mobile devices so you can get the escape room experience anywhere!

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Buy iPad Version | Buy iPhone Version | Price Varies Depending on Device

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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

By now, everyone’s probably heard of the Legend of Zelda series. However, when BoTW was released on the Nintendo Switch, it became a genre-defining game that broke all molds of previous LoZ games. This is because the gameplay was completely reworked to include complete freedom of interaction with the environment in a never-before-done massive open world game. You could climb on EVERYTHING!

The great thing about this revamp of the series is that in BoTW, your ability to interact with almost everything in the environment opens up huge possibilities of puzzle solving. As you attain new skills and abilities throughout the story, you can use them to solve your way through dungeons and zones with creative outside-the-box thinking.

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Buy on Nintendo | $59.99

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Myst

We can’t have this list without the granddaddy of escape room-like video games. Myst is such a classic puzzler game that it’s been re-released multiple times throughout the years. Originally released in 1993, this graphic adventure puzzle video game puts you in a first-person view in the world of Myst. Basically, your character finds a book called Myst and then you are somehow whisked away into the world of that book, and you have to progress through the game solving puzzles and activating complex mechanisms to figure out how to get home.

Over the years, remakes of Myst have included remastered editions and now supports even VR. This is a must-play game if you love escape rooms and wanted to feel it in a video game format.

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Buy on Steam | $29.99

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Hugo’s House of Horrors DOS front cover

Hugo’s House of Horrors

Speaking of old-school, Hugo’s House of Horrors was another one of the early video games with many of the elements you find in escape rooms today. We remember spending so much time on this game back in the mid-90s just trying to explore and figure out how to solve everything! Nowadays, you can pretty much speed run through this game if you know what to do, but back then when we didn’t have the internet readily available to find walkthroughs, it was a fun challenge.

In this game, you control the character of Hugo as you go to a haunted house in search of your missing girlfriend. You can control Hugo with the arrow buttons, and you can type in commands to let Hugo know what to do, such as “pick up the key” or “search under the rug”.  There’s much to do in terms of searching and solving puzzles, and it’s one of those games where you should just play to see how far we’ve come since the inception of the adventure-puzzler genre.

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Play for Free on PlayClassic

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I Expect You to Die (VR)

I Expect You to Die is, you guessed it, a spy-themed video game that puts you in the shoes of a secret agent. In this game, you are put into various situations where you need to interact with the environment and figure out clues to help you complete the task. Being that this game is in virtual reality, the immersiveness is real, and you get to do things that you may not be able to do in a real in-person escape room like… for example, driving a car off a plane! The puzzles here are cerebral and clever, and it will definitely scratch the escape room itch if you can’t go out. It’s why it’s one of our top pics for escape room video games.
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Buy on Steam | $24.99
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I Expect You to Die 2 (VR)

The first game is something we absolutely loved, so it’s no wonder the second game in the series is on this list. I Expect You to Die 2 goes bigger and bolder with just as zany if not zanier environments than the first game. This game is much more elaborate and longer than the first, and with that it makes you feel much more immersed than the first game. Every mission is very much enjoyable and rewarding once you complete them and go on your way to become the best secret spy in the world.
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Buy on Steam | $24.99
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