Mystic Academy: Escape Room
Skip · Action · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 44, under the fair line, at $3.29.
- Length
- 3.1h 3.1h to 100%
- Value
- $1.06/hr
- Reviews
- 76% of 253 positive
Full price
Today
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Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Today is the day of your final exam to become a wizard. Within this enchanting escape room, you'll navigate a wizardry school, unravel puzzles, master new spells, and put your magical skills to the ultimate test. Will you emerge triumphant?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: NVIDIA GeForce 450, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 37 discounts in the 3 years tracked, the median cut is 40 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $3.29 at 70 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Value puts it in the top 22 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 62 percent. Escape First Alchemist ⚗️ ($9.99, scores 54) outscores it, and so does What Never Was (free, scores 84). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Mystic Academy: Escape Room
None of the 222 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2023 to August 2026.
The drop-off
78% start to 52% rarestNo 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
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 7, 13:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This was rather disappointing compared to their other games I've played. Most of the puzzles don't have to be fully figured out to solve and some you can easily just guess. There's too many "1-9 number" puzzles. It's really a shame the puzzles are so bad in this, because the vibes are awesome.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Puzzles are either easy or impossible. The hints are mostly useless. As an example of impossible, there's a puzzle toward the end that requires moving pieces on a chess board to cover marked squares, but nothing to suggest what piece goes on which square other than a set of tiles with a number of steps and directional arrows. Either you get lucky or spend hours trying to work out the possible combinations of steps...
Mystic Academy is a short, simple "story" where you need to solve a series of puzzles in order to move from room to room. After you solve the last puzzle, you get to graduate from the academy. There are no other characters in the game so the only dialogue in the game is MC talking to himself. A typical escape the room game. Pros: Good animations 3D movement Simple controls Graphics are well done Non-linear (For the...
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Cite this score
Mystic Academy: Escape Room scores 44/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1991980/mystic-academy-escape-roomReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.