Escape Academy

Escape Academy

Skip · Narrative · 2022

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a worth-it price before.

Today

$19.99Skip

On its price record

$5.13Worth it

Length
5h
Value
$4.00/hr
Reviews
87% positive
It needs 74% off ($5.13) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.

Buy now or wait

The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.

Autumn Sale cooldown
None on record
Typical seasonal cut
70% ($5.99)
Deepest seasonal cut
80% ($3.99)
Last discount ended
27 days ago

Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
5h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
6h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$4.00
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$19.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
87%
1,430 reviews, as of Sep 27
Metacritic
79
critic score
Players
75K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2022

Minimum on the Steam store: 5 GB of storage. Windows only.

Welcome to Escape Academy. Train to become the ultimate Escapist. Solve Puzzles. Hack Servers. Meet the Faculty. Brew the perfect cup of tea. Escape Rooms in single player or co-op with a friend - local or online!
Description from the Steam store page.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Holding it back
Value$4.00/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews87% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 86% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
Length5 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach75K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds3 of 444 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was August 2026. 38 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Value puts it in the top 22 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Tick Tock: A Tale for Two ($1.79, scores 66) outscores it, and so does We Were Here Forever ($17.99, scores 77). Both sit among its closest neighbours.

79 from critics against 87 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

This site sampled 444 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2022 to August 2026.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 5 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

The drop-off

90% start to 2% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

Players

60 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 19:49 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

It's worth the price I paid for it. Which was 3$ during a sale. Would it be worth more than that?... Not so sure, the game is really easy, and takes just a few short hours to complete
visier777Recommendedafter 4.4h4 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Very good, fun to play, fun to solve. Although I wish it was slightly more difficult at points.
BracketEnkyRecommendedafter 5.8h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Unfortunately this game gave me severe motion sickness, to the point where I couldn't play it for more than 15 mins. It's not devs' fault, but something to keep in mind if you're sensitive
wikaNot recommendedafter 1.1h9 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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Escape Academy scores 48/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1812090/escape-academy
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+8
Critics
79
Players
87
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 1,430 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperCoin Crew Games
Publisheriam8bit Presents
GenreNarrative
Released2022
Achievements40