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Platform:<\/b> PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X\/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC
Publisher:<\/b> iam8bit Presents, Skybound Games
Developer:<\/b> Coin Crew Games
Release:<\/b> 2022 <\/p>\n
Escape Rooms have become all the rage over the last decade, but the pandemic has put a damper on the in-person experience. Escape Academy brings the concept home, expanding the concept into a broader adventure set in an unusual university. <\/p>\n
You control a new student enrolled at a school dedicated to training escape artists. Nearly every room, floor, or corridor of this institution hides a puzzle or three, and very little is what meets the eye. The same extends to the eclectic staff, including a mysterious headmaster. The first-person game tasks you with earning grades by solving escape rooms themed after various academic subjects, which you can unravel alone or with a buddy in split-screen co-op (both local and online). Collect eight badges, and you graduate. An overarching story propels your semester, but developer Coin Crew Games is keeping plot details under lock and key. <\/p>\n
Coin Crew Games\u2019 members have a love for escape rooms. The team designed the game in response to the inability to play in-person during COVID lockdowns and cherry-picked elements from their favorite destinations to incorporate into the game. Series such as The Room and Zero Escape provided additional inspiration. The studio categorizes Escape Academy as an \u201cescape room game\u201d rather than a puzzle game. The difference, the team states, is that while traditional puzzles present one primary challenge, escape rooms feature multiple individual riddles that intersect and parallel one another towards an overarching goal: getting out. <\/p>\n